The team returned to a third consecutive AFL title game in 1962, but they lost a close contest in double overtime to the Dallas Texans. In the week following the Titans' final loss to the Colts, the generally pro-Young Bud Adams agreed that it would be best for the team to release or trade Young. They did not lose a game at home and finished one game behind the Jacksonville Jaguars for the AFC Central title. After the season, the Titans fired GM Ruston Webster. [8] Tannehill would go on to win the next 7 out of 10 games, with the Titans finishing 9–7. That span also included six straight victories. Not only did Adams go with the name "Titans" to reflect heroic and epic qualities he believed described the good people of Nashville, but also In week 4, Tennessee lost 26–20 to Denver, and finally won 34–27 in Dallas to reach a 3–2 record by Week 5. [6] During halftime of the 19-17 Week 2 loss against the Indianapolis Colts, the Titans retired the jersey numbers of running back Eddie George and quarterback Steve McNair. Tennessee Titans - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). When the Oilers did move to Nashville in the late 1990s, they played two seasons as the Nashville Oilers before Bud Adams held a state wide contest to The committee choose Titans citing the desire to have a nickname that reflected “strength, leadership and other heroic qualities.” “Titans come from early Greek mythology and the fact that Nashville is known as the ‘Athens of the South’ makes the Titans name very appropriate,” Adams said.

Several rookies made the 2005 team, including first round pick, cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, offensive tackle Michael Roos, and three wide receivers, Brandon Jones, Courtney Roby and Roydell Williams. Despite starting the season 1–4 the Titans finished the season 11–5 and made it to the AFC Championship Game but lost to Oakland 41–24. The Tennessee Titans are the professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. The Titans went 12–4 and made the 2003 playoffs, winning their wild card game over the Baltimore Ravens and losing in the AFC divisionals to the New England Patriots who went on to win the Super Bowl. The Oilers then posted four consecutive losing seasons, and Blanda was released in 1967 after the team won only 3 of their 14 games in 1966. As the leading rusher since 2008 (4,598 yards) he was set to make $1.065 million in 2011, under current contract terms. The 2014 season was the first for head coach Ken Whisenhunt, the Titans finished the season 2–14, their worst record in Tennessee Titans history, tying the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the league's worst record, and their worse since 1994 when they was the Houston Oilers. The only chance for the Titans to win the division was to finish with a better record than the Texans and Colts. However, after a loss to the Chargers in Week 8, they were the only team to submit in a claim for the recently waived Randy Moss. The team was then rechristened the Tennessee Titans, a name derived from Nashville’s sobriquet of “the Athens of the South.”. The franchise was located in Houston, Texas, and was known as the Oilers from 1960 to 1996, during which time it won two American Football League (AFL) championships (1960 and 1961). They finally finished the season 9–7, failing again to reach the playoffs, but remaining in contention to Week 17. He let it be known that the new name should reflect power, strength, leadership and other heroic qualities. The Titans finished the season 9–7, the same record as the Texans, losing the tiebreaker due to record against divisional opponents, by three games (the Titans were 2–4, the Texans were 5–1). The 2018 season was the first season under new head coach Mike Vrabel, also a welcoming of new uniforms and helmets. The Titans had the first pick in the 2016 draft, which Robinson traded to the Los Angeles Rams. The team rebounded that season, and was in playoff contention until losing their last two games for another 8–8 record.

After making the playoffs in 2017 for the first time in nine years, the team had high hopes for 2018, expecting to make the playoffs for the second year in a row; the season was not as expected, losing the "important games" to the Buffalo Bills 12–13 in Week 5 and the Los Angeles Chargers 19–20 in Week 7, though they notably routed the New England Patriots, Vrabel's former team while playing, 34–10 in Week 10. The playoff game against Baltimore included three red zone turnovers and 12 penalties by the Titans. I'm sorry, but little will ever trump that oil rig derrick logo The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They were placed in the AFC's Central Division, which they were part of until 2002. Trailing the Buffalo Bills by a point with 16 seconds remaining, the Titans fielded a short kickoff, and tight end Frank Wycheck threw a lateral across the field to receiver Kevin Dyson, who easily scored a game-winning 75-yard touchdown in a play that became known as the “Music City Miracle.” The Titans then won two additional road playoff games to earn the franchise’s first Super Bowl berth. They won Central division titles in '91 and '93 while still in Houston as the Oilers.

The relocation to Tennessee led to the change of the name. But time moves on, and so do great logos on football helmets. During the 2011 NFL Draft the Titans took Washington QB Jake Locker with the 8th pick overall. They were placed in the AF… They would make the playoffs following a 35-14 Week 17 victory over the Texans. In the wild card round they lost to the San Diego Chargers, 17–6. This, in my opinion, is one of those cases where an awesome team name got replaced with a rather blah, ho-hum type. Houston slowly improved over the course of the decade, and, after colourful head coach Bum Phillips was hired in 1975 to reinvigorate the team, they returned to the postseason in 1978. [10] In the playoffs, the Titans upset the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium winning 20–13 in the Wildcard Round, with Henry rushing for 182 yards and a touchdown on 34 carries. On July 29, 1998, Adams announced that in response to fan requests, he was changing the Oilers' name to coincide with the opening of their new stadium and to better connect with Nashville. At the time, Interstate 40 was in the midst of major reconstruction in the Memphis area, lengthening the normal three-hour drive between Nashville and Memphis to five hours. The Oilers won two AFL championships before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger. The Titans looked outmatched in the first half, after which they trailed 21–3. The 1970s brought an AFL-NFL merger and a downturn in the Oilers’ fortunes, as the team won just one game in 1972 and again in 1973.

Tennessee Titans, American professional gridiron football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. [3], In 1999, Adelphia Coliseum, now known as Nissan Stadium, was completed and the newly christened Titans had a grand season, finishing with a 13–3 record — the best season in franchise history. The team began recovering and won five in a row including a game against the defending NFC Champion Arizona Cardinals, on a 99-yard game-winning drive by Vince Young, culminating in a touchdown pass on fourth down with 6 seconds left from the 10-yard line to Kenny Britt. Attendance was smaller than what the USFL's Memphis Showboats had drawn and what the XFL's Memphis Maniax would draw to the same stadium. Losses continued to mount for the Titans, until a week 15 win against the Houston Texans kept their season alive at 6–8. The team’s success was short-lived. The Titans finished the season 3–13, tied with the Cleveland Browns for the league's worst record. Previously known as the Houston Oilers, the team was founded by Bud Adams who owned it until his death in 2013 and began play in 1960 in Houston, Texas, as a charter member of the American Football League(AFL). The Houston Oilers traded for the first overall selection in the 1978 National Football League (NFL) draft, which they used to pick Campbell, who was already popular with much of the team’s fan base following his collegiate exploits in nearby Austin.…, …Titans in 1960–61 and the Houston Oilers in 1964.