Taxpayers are throwing more than a billion dollars into the construction of a Nashville stadium.
Attention Nashville and Tennessee taxpayers. National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is thanking you for your more than one billion dollar contribution to a private business, the Tennessee Titans franchise, to help pay for part of the cost for a new stadium. Goodell is ready to give you a Super Bowl sometime in the future. Goodell cannot give a Super Bowl to the Nashville area but the 31 owners and the Green Bay Packers Board of Directors can take Goodell’s suggestion and act upon it. NFL owners give NFL markets the crown jewel event, the Super Bowl, after taxpayers contribute to construction costs.
Goodell was recently in Nashville checking out the progress of the Titans’ franchise next home. And Goodell was so pleased he almost handed out a Super Bowl. Almost. The NFL did put a big event in Nashville, the 2019 Draft, and it turned out to be a big party with an estimated 600,000 people over three days in the streets. Goodell and league officials have fond memories of the event. “From the moment you had the draft and what you did to change the trajectory of the draft, you actually took the draft and made it yours, but you did it in a way that made it incredibly impactful to the future of the NFL and the Titans. And I think all of us at that moment had that wake-up moment that this is a Super Bowl-ready city. And I think now you’re building a great stage. We have a process, but I have every expectation that you’re going to see that type of thing in the future,” Goodell said. Nashville is the country music capital of the world but that doesn’t matter in the NFL world. Super Bowl-ready city means there is a stadium coming and taxpayers have thrown money into the construction.
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