| Tennessee Titans | |||||
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| Established August 14, 1959[1] First season: 1960 Play in Nissan Stadium Nashville, Tennessee Headquartered in Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park Nashville, Tennessee[2] | |||||
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| American Football League
National Football League (1970–present)
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| Team colors | Navy, Titans blue, red, silver, white[3][4][5] | ||||
| Mascot | T-Rac | ||||
| Website | tennesseetitans.com | ||||
| Personnel | |||||
| Owner(s) | Amy Adams Strunk[6] | ||||
| Chairman | Susie Adams Smith Amy Adams Strunk | ||||
| CEO | Burke Nihill | ||||
| General manager | Ran Carthon | ||||
| President | Burke Nihill | ||||
| Head coach | Brian Callahan | ||||
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| Championships | |||||
League championships (2)
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Conference championships (1)
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| Division championships (11) | |||||
| Playoff appearances (25) | |||||
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| This article is part of series of |
| Tennessee Titans history |
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| Houston Oilers (1960–1996) |
| Tennessee Oilers (1997–1998) |
| Tennessee Titans (1999–present) |
| List of seasons |
The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The Tennessee Titans play their home games at Nissan Stadium and are building a new stadium which will be completed in 2027.
Originally known as the Houston Oilers, the team was founded in 1959 by Houston oil tycoon Bud Adams, who remained the owner until his death in 2013. The team began play in 1960 in Houston, Texas, as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL). The Houston Oilers won the first two AFL championships along with four division titles, and joined the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The Houston Oilers made playoff appearances from 1978 to 1980 and from 1987 to 1993, with Hall of Famers Earl Campbell and Warren Moon, respectively.
In 1997, the Houston Oilers relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, playing at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee for one season while waiting for a new stadium to be constructed. The team moved to Nashville, Tennessee's Vanderbilt Stadium in 1998. For those two seasons, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers, but changed its name to the Tennessee Titans for the 1999 season, when they moved into Adelphia Coliseum, now known as Nissan Stadium. The Tennessee Titans' training facility is in Saint Thomas Sports Park, a 31-acre site at the MetroCenter complex in Nashville.[7]
The Tennessee Titans played in Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, losing 23–16 to the St. Louis Rams. Led by Steve McNair and Eddie George, the Tennessee Titans made the playoffs in all but one season from 1999 to 2003, but only twice in the next 13 years. From 2016 to 2021, the Tennessee Titans had six consecutive winning seasons and four playoff appearances. The Tennessee Titans are the only NFL team to have two players rush for 2,000 yards in a season, Chris Johnson (2009) and Derrick Henry (2020).
- ^ "Tennessee Titans Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. NFL Enterprises. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
- ^ "Contact Us". TennesseeTitans.com. Retrieved July 31, 2023.
- ^ Wyatt, Jim (April 4, 2018). "The Story Behind Titans New Uniforms, and Helmet". TennesseeTitans.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2018.
The color palette navy, Titan blue, red, silver and white remains unchanged.
- ^ "Titans Fingertip Information" (PDF). 2023 Tennessee Titans Media Guide (PDF). NFL Enterprises. July 27, 2023. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
- ^ "Tennessee Titans Team Capsule" (PDF). 2022 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises. July 20, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2024.
- ^ "Titans Front Office". TennesseeTitans.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
- ^ "Titans Practice Facility Renamed "Saint Thomas Sports Park"". TitansOnline.com. NFL Enterprises. July 11, 2013. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2019.