Tennessee Titans
Current season
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General information
Founded	August 14, 1959; 66 years ago (August 14, 1959)[1]
Inaugural season	1960
Stadium	Nissan Stadium Nashville, Tennessee
Headquartered	Vanderbilt Health Football Center Nashville, Tennessee[2]
Colors	Titans blue, white, red, navy blue[3][4]
Mascot	T-Rac
Website	tennesseetitans.com
Personnel
Owner	Adams family[5]
CEO	Burke Nihill
General manager	Mike Borgonzi
Head coach	Robert Saleh
President	Burke Nihill
Team history
Houston Oilers (1960–1996) Tennessee Oilers (1997–1998) Tennessee Titans (1999–present)
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)
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)
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
Owners
Bud Adams (1959–2013) Amy Adams Strunk (2013–present)

The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The Titans play their home games at Nissan Stadium; the team will move to a new domed stadium with the same name, 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 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 moved 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'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.^[6]

The Titans played in Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, losing 23–16 to the St. Louis Rams. Led by Steve McNair and Eddie George, they 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).