Titans adjust practice schedule to watch solar eclipse

Nashville, Tenn. is the largest city in the path of Monday''s total solar eclipse, and Tennessee Titans head coach Mike Mularkey doesn't want his team to miss it.

While totality is expected to last over two minutes and the start of the 2017 season is less than three weeks away from Monday, Mularkey is willing to take a break from practice to let his team enjoy the rare occurrence.

“What a cool experience. You’re on the practice field. I rearranged the practice schedule to make sure we’re out there to see it,” said Mularkey, according to Terry McCormick from Titan Insider.

Totality is expected to begin at 1:27 p.m. CT, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to flood the Nashville area for prime viewing. Titans players, though, won't be willing to give up their front row seats to tourists.

"It’s a big event and I know my kids are going to get a chance to see it. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said backup quarterback Matt Cassel.

Kicker Ryan Succop is going to take full advantage of his locale.

"I’ve got three or four pairs of glasses and I’m looking forward to it. I’ve been excited about it for a while. I don’t know if I’ll see another one of these in my lifetime. It looks like Nashville is going to be close to seeing a total eclipse. It should be fun,” he said.

The 30-year-old Succop will need to wait until 2024 for the next solar eclipse over North America, though he could schedule vacations to South America in both 2019 and 2020.