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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Nashville built an arena before it had a team, and won the bet twice. Bridgestone Arena opened on 18 December 1996 as the Nashville Arena at 501 Broadway, a 144-million-dollar downtown wager by mayor Phil Bredesen that Music City could carry major league sports - a building erected, as its operators still say, without any sport in mind. The gamble drew suitors immediately: an NBA application, flirtations with the Minnesota Timberwolves and New Jersey Devils, and finally the 1998 expansion Nashvi...