The Savannah Bananas easily sold out the Sugar Land Space Cowboys’ Constellation Field when they came to the area for the first time in 2023. They didn’t have any problem packing in more than 40,000 to the Houston Astros’ downtown ballpark in 2024 and 2025. So, can they fill Reliant Stadium, which will be hosting the first baseball game in its 25-year history?
They’ll try it out when the Bananas take over the home of the Houston Texans and the rodeo for a weekend with games on May 22-23. Considering the Bananas set a team attendance record with 102,000 fans at Texas A&M’s Kyle Field earlier this year, filling Reliant Stadium, even on consecutive nights, shouldn’t be an issue.
The Bananas, who are a little bit like the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, only with more flair, played in front of more than 2 million fans in 2025 and went over 3 million this year, including that six-figure crowd in College Station. The team that features players on stilts, choreographed dance routines and backflipping outfielders who make catches midflip, likely will top that in 2027 considering some of the venues on the schedule it released Thursday…