Jay Grider – Author of Last Call: From the Minor Leagues to Nashville's Rise as a Major Sports Destination

Long before the Titans, Predators and the push for Major League Baseball, Nashville was still trying to prove it belonged on the big stage. Few people watched that transformation closer than Jay Grider. The longtime Nashville Sports Council executive shares hilarious behind-the-scenes stories from nearly three decades of landing the city’s biggest sporting events, including frozen bowl games, stadium power failures, marching band mutinies, and the organized chaos that helped turn Music City into a major sports town.

AMONG THE TOPICS: THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE SECOND UP IS MOVING, BUT STAYING PUT, THE COLDEST MUSIC CITY BOWL EVER PLAYED, THE NIGHT HALF THE STADIUM LOST POWER, HOW A WISCONSIN MARCHING BAND ALMOST STARTED A MUTINY, WHY KENNY CHESNEY NEARLY GOT DROPPED BY BARRY TROTZ