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Mayor John Cooper (right)

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Nashville Mayor John Cooper says that he and the Tennessee Titans are seemingly nearing a pact that would alleviate all financial responsibility for the team’s reported new enclosed stadium from taxpayers, according to an op-ed he published in The Tennessean on Thursday.

In the piece, Cooper said his goal was to take the taxpayers off the hook for any potential costs of a new Titans stadium and hold the team accountable for coming up with most of the funding needed; the $500 million in bonds Gov. Bill Lee asked the state legislature to earmark for the stadium project, notwithstanding.

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