Meet Nick Suss, our Tennessee Titans reporter

My parents like to tell a story. They were at a dinner with three or four other couples, about 25 years ago. There was a commotion outside, so everyone rushed out onto the patio to see what was going on. They saw five or six kids, their butts planted in the grass, trying their best not to make eye contact with me, a 6 or 7 year old, waving my arms around like a panicked flamingo, screaming “STOP! STOP!” at the top of their lungs.

“We don’t know what this is,” one of the children moaned sadly. But I was not discouraged. A first-grader had trespassed on the field, and I would not allow our all-important backyard soccer game to resume until that student accepted the punishment he was due.

My sincerest and truest belief in this world is that choices matter. Sports fans are not sports fans by accident. Cheering for a team takes effort, patience, determination, a little delusion. It takes the kind of courage that no rational person should want to endure. But we do it. We endure, and we endure because the journey is the reward, and the reward is the journey.

Don’t worry. I’m a little cooler now. Just a little.

My name is Nick Suss, and I’m the Titans reporter at The Tennessean. I’m entering my third season in the role after spending the previous nine years covering SEC sports in Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi. It’s a lifelong honor to be able to tell stories about this team for this city, whether it’s tracking down scoops on trades and free-agent signings, spending months writing profiles on the likes of Will Levis, or falling down rabbit holes like the one I fell into last year when I devoted days of my life to trying to track down the first person to call Derrick Henry “King Henry.”

I see my role as a guide to your endurance. There is, undeniably, too much NFL news. Following the league is exhausting, not to mention the gut-wrenching feeling you get from watching the games. That’s why I’m here, to help share news, analysis, and perspective on what you’re seeing and to get to the bottom of the questions that are on your mind during the games.

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Watching a football match is your choice. It’s a really great choice.

Helping you understand better is my choice. Feel free to contact me at any time if you think I can help you become a better, smarter, more balanced, and more engaged Titans fan. I will always do my best to achieve this, even if it requires channeling my inner passion that screams for encroachment to do so.

Let’s enjoy this season, Titans fans.

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