1998 Tennessee Oilers season | |
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Owner | Bud Adams |
General manager | Floyd Reese |
Head coach | Jeff Fisher |
Home field | Vanderbilt Stadium |
Results | |
Record | 8–8 |
Division place | 2nd AFC Central |
Playoff finish | Did not qualify |
Pro Bowlers | RB Eddie George G Bruce Matthews P Craig Hentrich |
Uniform | |
The 1998 Tennessee Oilers season was the franchise's 39th season overall, 29th with the National Football League (NFL), and their final season as the Oilers; they would be renamed the Titans the following year.
The team matched their previous season's output of 8–8,[1] marking their third straight season with exactly eight wins. The Oilers failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year.
The 1998 season was the only year the Oilers would play in Vanderbilt Stadium, an undersized stadium that was used as a temporary stopgap until the team's new permanent stadium could be constructed. The Oilers, who had originally intended to stay in Houston until the stadium was finished, were 'forced out' of Houston due to poor attendance in 1996, and were again forced out of their "Plan B," Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, after attendance was even worse there in 1997.