Titans CEO ‘very optimistic’ about Nashville hosting a Super Bowl

After already proving to be a fantastic host city for the NFL draft, Nashville has its sights set on hosting a Super Bowl down the line now that the Tennessee Titans are set to build a new stadium.

The New Nissan Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2027, will almost certainly garner interest from the NFL as a future Super Bowl site, and that optimism is shared by Titans president and CEO Burke Nihill.

“I feel very optimistic about it,” Nihill said this week at the NFL league meetings in Orlando, Florida, per Jim Wyatt. “I think the NFL loves Nashville, and they love the design of the new stadium. That doesn’t mean there aren’t many, many details to work out to ultimately get awarded a Super Bowl.

“But I am absolutely optimistic that at some point the Super Bowl will (be) in Nashville.”

As far as when that might happen, Nihill said the league typically waits two years after a new stadium opens to consider it as a Super Bowl host.

“Traditionally, the league doesn’t award a new stadium until it has had two full seasons of operation, which means the earliest they would consider us, if they start with that same line of thinking, would be 2029,” Nihill said.

Nihill revealed that the team and the league have had conversations about a Super Bowl coming to the new venue from the jump, and he also hopes to bring back the draft, as well as the NFL Combine and Pro Bowl down the road.