Tennessee Titans

The Tennessee Titans are an American football team playing in the AFC South division of the National Football League. The Nashville based team play their home games in LP Field, renamed from The Coliseum in 2006. LP Field sits on the east bank of the Cumberland River with a view of downtown Nashville across the Cumberland. The seating capacity is near 69,000. A preseason game between the Titans and the Atlanta Falcons on August 27, 1999 was the first event held in the coliseum.

The Titans began playing as the Houston Oilers in 1960. In 1997 the team moved to Tennessee and became the Tennessee Oilers. In 1999 the team adopted its current name, the Tennessee Titans. With the change of names the Titans also introduced a new logo which was a circle with three red stars in a triangular position around a white T within a dark blue circle with red and blue flames radiating out from the left top of the circle. The Titans team colors are blue, navy blue, white and scarlet.

The Tennessee Titans won the AFC conference championship in 1999, the AFC Central division championship in 2000 and the AFC South division championship in 2002 and 2008. They made playoff appearances in the NFL in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2008. In 1999 they won the Wild Card Playoffs against the Bills, 22 – 16, the Divisional Playoffs against the Colts, 19 – 16, and the Conference Championship against the Jaguars, 33 – 14. They lost Super Bowl XXXIV to the Rams 23 – 16. That has been their only Super Bowl appearance.

The NFL and Hall of Fame committee appointed the Tennessee Titans and the Buffalo Bills as the teams to kick off the 2009 NFL preseason. The game, which was played on August 9, 2009, took place at Canton’s Pro Football Hall of Fame field at Fawcett stadium. NBC televised the game nationally as the country watched the Titans defeat the Bills by a score of 21 – 18. During this game the Titans wore their Oilers uniform in honor of the AFL’s 50th anniversary. It was also at this time that the team added a small black disc on the back of their helmets with a white number nine inside. It was in honor of former Quarterback Steve McNair, who wore that number during his playing years with the Titans. Steve LaTreal McNair was killed on July 4, 2009, the victim of a tragic homicide.

The head coach of the Tennessee Titans is Jeff Fisher who is beginning his 15th full season with the team. Fisher holds the franchise record for wins by a head coach with 133 victories. He ranks 22nd on the NFL’s career head coaching wins list and 2nd among the active coaches behind Belichick who has 153 wins. Fisher hopes to lead the Tennessee Titans through another winning season with the help of Kerry Collins, Jared Cook, Justin Gage, Tuff Harris, Chris Henry, Chris Johnson, Mark Jones, Gerald McRath, Javon Ringer, A.J. Trapasso along with the rest of the team.