{"id":305626,"date":"2025-11-21T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305626\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:29:07","slug":"roger-goodell-nashville-is-a-super-bowl-ready-city-building-a-great-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/305626\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Goodell: Nashville is a Super Bowl-ready city building a great stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Nissan Stadium, the future home of the Titans, is set to open in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the club held a ceremony to commemorate the stadium\u2019s topping out, with commissioner Roger Goodell in attendance. Naturally, the question of new Nissan Stadium and Nashville potentially hosting a Super Bowl came up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so much of the vision that Amy [Adams Strunk] and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jwyattsports\/status\/1991894113999106293?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Titans have here<\/a>,\u201d Goodell said, via Jim Wyatt of the Titans\u2019 website. \u201cListen, it\u2019s an important franchise, a wonderful franchise for the NFL. And I know that the work that they\u2019ve done here from the moment you\u2019ve had the draft [in 2019] and what you did to change the trajectory of the draft \u2014 you actually took the draft and made it yours. But you did it in a way that made it incredibly impactful for the future of the NFL \u2014 and the Titans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think all of us at that moment had that wake-up moment that this is a Super Bowl-ready city. The one thing that was missing is the stage,\u201d Goodell added, pointing behind him to the new stadium. \u201cAnd I think now, you\u2019re building a great stage. We have a process, but I have every expectation that we\u2019re going to see that type of thing in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Governor Bill Lee <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/tennessee-governor-asks-nfl-to-play-the-super-bowl-in-nashville-in-2029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">wrote a letter to Goodell earlier this year<\/a> as part of Nashville\u2019s bid to host Super Bowl LXIII in February 2029, capping the 2028 season. After Super Bowl LX at Levi\u2019s Stadium this coming February, SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles is set to host Super Bowl LXI to finish the 2026 season, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta will host Super Bowl LXII to end the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas is also in the running to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/report-nfl-will-not-vote-this-week-but-las-vegas-still-on-track-to-host-super-bowl-lxiii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">host Super Bowl LXIII<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Nissan Stadium, the future home of the Titans, is set to open in 2027. On Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-305626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}