MLS Nashville SC

Nashville SC to Unveil Largest Themed Scoreboard in Nation at New Stadium

Published on April 1, 2019 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
Nashville SC News Release


Have you ever walked down Lower Broadway and witnessed a train of tourists with matching cowboy hats and thought "Those hats would look great as a scoreboard?"

So have we.

This Monday, April 1, Nashville Soccer Club officially unveiled designs for a cowboy hat Jumbotron at the club's new stadium at the Fairgrounds set to open in 2022. At 44.1 feet wide, it is the largest cowboy hat in the world, narrowly surpassing the 44-foot wide hat at Oxbow Park in Seattle, Washington.

"We've spent one year playing in the shadows of the guitar scoreboard at First Tennessee Park," said a Nashville SC spokesperson. "It would have been a travesty if we didn't play in the shadows of another iconic Nashville symbol in our new home at the Fairgrounds."

"We also felt it was a shame that Seattle had the record for the largest cowboy hat. How on Earth did that happen? I mean, the world's largest umbrella, that would make sense. But a cowboy hat?"

The club partnered with Lower Broadway merchant Legends Gifts to design the scoreboard after the "Tourist Model" hat that is the store's best seller. According to a Legends Gifts representative, the hat is designed to be authentic enough to look good in a honky tonk, but silly enough to be re-used as a Halloween costume in five years.

Plans for a re-creation of Legends' famous Elvis Presley statue at the stadium were scrapped because the club felt bad stealing Memphis' greatest, and only, export.

"Please don't take Elvis from us," a Memphis 901 FC representative said. "If we don't have him, we'll be forced to acknowledge our inferior barbecue."

A representative for the former record-holding hat in Seattle could not be reached for comment, as the phone lines in Seattle were down (again) due to rain.

The club will be deciding on a title sponsor for the scoreboard, and the early nominees include Pedal Taverns, Nashville's Tourist Murals and a Tall Construction Crane.

Yee Haw!

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