Will Nashville host Super Bowl at new Titans stadium? What Roger Goodell said after seeing replica
One look at a 6-by-8-foot version of the new Nissan Stadium encouraged NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to look at the much bigger picture — the possibility of the league bringing the Super Bowl to Nashville.
While in town this week for the NFL spring meeting at Loews Nashville Hotel at Vanderbilt Plaza, Goodell toured the Titans House Experience Center in Germantown. There he saw a replica of the new stadium and some virtual experiences of what it will feel like.
So, Mr. Commissioner, when is the Super Bowl coming to the future home of the Tennessee Titans?
"We experienced the draft here and I think the Super Bowl here would be very successful, but we'll get to that once we get a little further down the line with the stadium," Goodell said Wednesday.
Nashville played host to the NFL Draft in 2019, drawing an estimated crowd of 600,000 people. Next year's draft will be in Green Bay, while the 2026 draft will be in Pittsburgh, the league announced Wednesday. The NHL Draft was held here last summer.
Ground was broken on the new $2.1 billion Nissan Stadium in late February and it is expected to be completed by 2027.
"It was great to see the stadium and their vision," Goodell said. "We've seen the plans before, but you see it come to life a little bit more. I think the stadium is going to be amazing. We know just the passion of the fans here."
Goodell joined Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee at Pearl-Cohn High School on Tuesday morning, when Lee signed into law a bill designed to prevent cardiac arrests in high school athletes.
Paul Skrbina is a sports enterprise reporter covering the Predators, Titans, Nashville SC, local colleges and local sports for The Tennessean. Reach him at pskrbina@tennessean.com and on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) @paulskrbina. Follow his work here.
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