{"id":79599,"date":"2026-10-06T03:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/saints-lopsided-loss-sours-celebrations-on-20th-anniversary-of-domecoming\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:55:09","slug":"saints-lopsided-loss-sours-celebrations-on-20th-anniversary-of-domecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/saints-lopsided-loss-sours-celebrations-on-20th-anniversary-of-domecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints\u2019 lopsided loss sours celebrations on 20th anniversary of \u2018Domecoming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Falcons ease to 45-24 win and silence Superdome crowd<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Match marked two decades since return post-Katrina<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough was \u201cembarrassed\u201d. Second-year coach Kellen Moore was \u201cdisappointed\u201d and \u201cfrustrated\u201d. And a day of festivities commemorating one of the most triumphant moments in the New Orleans Saints\u2019 history ended with boos and early exits.<\/p>\n<p>Three plays into Monday night\u2019s game against Atlanta, Falcons running back Bijan Robinson silenced an electric Superdome crowd with a 59-yard touchdown run. The Saints\u2019 performance in a 45-24 loss to the Falcons bore no resemblance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2006\/sep\/28\/football.comment\">their landmark 23-3 victory against the same team 20 years ago<\/a>, when the venue finally reopened after being damaged by Hurricane Katrina. On that made-for-TV night, Steve Gleason blocked a punt on the Falcons\u2019 opening possession and Curtis Deloatch recovered it for a touchdown, sending the Saints on their way.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/oct\/06\/nfl-saints-falcons-20th-anniversary-domecoming-new-orleans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcons ease to 45-24 win and silence Superdome crowd Match marked two decades since return post-Katrina New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough was \u201cembarrassed\u201d. Second-year coach Kellen Moore was \u201cdisappointed\u201d and \u201cfrustrated\u201d. And a day of festivities commemorating one of the most triumphant moments in the New Orleans Saints\u2019 history ended with boos and early &#8230; <a title=\"Saints\u2019 lopsided loss sours celebrations on 20th anniversary of \u2018Domecoming\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/saints-lopsided-loss-sours-celebrations-on-20th-anniversary-of-domecoming\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Saints\u2019 lopsided loss sours celebrations on 20th anniversary of \u2018Domecoming\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}