NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell knew the question was coming at the Tennessee Titans’ ceremony Friday raising the final steel beam into place for their new enclosed stadium.

Goodell said Nashville, with the Titans, put their own stamp on the NFL draft in 2019 and changing the trajectory of that annual event for the league. The commissioner said everyone had a wake-up moment that Nashville is a “Super Bowl ready” city as Music City had a record attendance for that draft.

“The one thing that’s missing is the stage,” Goodell said. “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.”

The Titans are 19 months into building the new Nissan Stadium with a target date for completion in February

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