Tennessee Titans

Tennessee Titans
Tennessee Titans
Current season
	Established August 14, 1959; First season: 1960; Play in Nissan Stadium; Nashville, Tennessee; Headquartered in Ascension Saint Thomas Sports Park; Nashville, Tennessee
Tennessee Titans logo	Tennessee Titans wordmark
Logo	Wordmark
League/conference affiliations
	American Football League Eastern Division (1960–1969); ; National Football League (1970–present) American Football Conference (1970–present) AFC Central (1970–2001); AFC South (2002–present); ;
	Current uniform
Team colors	Navy, Titans blue, red, silver, white;
Mascot	T-Rac
Personnel
Owner(s)	Amy Adams Strunk
Chairman	Susie Adams Smith; Amy Adams Strunk
CEO	Burke Nihill
President	Burke Nihill
General manager	Ran Carthon
Head coach	Brian Callahan
Team history
	Houston Oilers (1960–1996); Tennessee Oilers (1997–1998); Tennessee Titans (1999–present);
Championships
	League championships (2); AFL championships (pre-1970 AFL–NFL merger) (2); 1960, 1961;
	Conference championships (1) AFC: 1999;
	Division championships (11) AFL Eastern: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967; AFC Central: 1991, 1993, 2000; AFC South: 2002, 2008, 2020, 2021;
Playoff appearances (25)
	AFL: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1969; NFL: 1978, 1979, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021;
Home fields
	Jeppesen Stadium (1960–1964); Rice Stadium (1965–1967); Houston Astrodome (1968–1996); Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (1997); Vanderbilt Stadium (1998); Nissan Stadium (1999–present);

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 club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The Titans play their home games at Nissan Stadium and are building a new stadium in 2024. It 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 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 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 Oilers relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, playing at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis for one season while waiting for a new stadium to be constructed. The team moved to Nashville's Vanderbilt Stadium in 1998. For those two seasons, the team was known as the Tennessee Oilers, but changed its name to the Titans for the 1999 season, when they moved into Adelphia Coliseum, now known as Nissan Stadium. The Titans' training facility is in Saint Thomas Sports Park, a 31-acre site at the MetroCenter complex in Nashville.^[7]

The Titans played in Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, losing 23–16 to the St. Louis Rams. Led by Steve McNair and Eddie George, the 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 Titans had six consecutive winning seasons and four playoff appearances. The 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". 2021 Tennessee Titans Media Guide. NFL Enterprises. July 27, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
^ "Tennessee Titans Team Capsule" (PDF). 2021 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises. August 11, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.
^ "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.

[1] "Tennessee Titans Team Facts". ProFootballHOF.com. NFL Enterprises. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2020.

[2] "Contact Us". TennesseeTitans.com. Retrieved July 31, 2023.

[TitansUnis2018-3] 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.

[4] "Titans Fingertip Information". 2021 Tennessee Titans Media Guide. NFL Enterprises. July 27, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.

[5] "Tennessee Titans Team Capsule" (PDF). 2021 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book (PDF). NFL Enterprises. August 11, 2021. Retrieved September 16, 2021.

[6] "Titans Front Office". TennesseeTitans.com. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.

[7] "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.

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