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The Houston Oilers were a professional American football team that played in Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1960 to 1996. The Houston Oilers began play as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) and won two AFL championships before joining the NFL in the AFL–NFL merger of the late 1960s.
The stadium was the first home for the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer from 2006 to 2011, as well as the first home of the American Football League's Houston Oilers from 1960 to 1964. On January 1, 1961, it hosted the American Football League Championship Game (for the 1960 title ).
It served as home to the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1965 until 1999, and the home to the Houston Oilers of the American Football League (AFL)/National Football League (NFL) from 1968 until 1996, and also the part-time home of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1971 until 1975.
City Stadium: Green Bay Packers Green Bay, Wisconsin 1925 1956 [34] Minersville Park: Pottsville Maroons: Minersville, Pennsylvania: 1925 1929 [35] Polo Grounds: New York Giants, New York Bulldogs: New York, New York 1925 1955 Also hosted the AFL's New York Titans, later Jets, from 1960 to 1963 [36] Ebbets Field: Brooklyn Lions, Brooklyn ...
[12] [13] [14] The Houston Oilers failed to post a winning season in the next six seasons, but in 1967, a 9–4–1 record returned the team to the AFL championship game where it lost 40–7 to the Oakland Raiders. [15] The Houston Oilers moved into the Astrodome after the season, becoming the first professional football team to move into a ...
The games were moved to Milwaukee County Stadium after it opened in 1953 and continued through 1994, after which the Packers moved back to Green Bay permanently. [3] As of 2023, the current home of the Green Bay Packers is Lambeau Field, an 81,441 seating capacity stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin. [5]
But the Titans were once the Houston Oilers, a member of the AFL and then the NFL from 1960 to 1996. Owned by Bud Adams, the unique Columbia blue uniforms and derrick logo stood out as a unique ...
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 were the Houston Oilers. In 2015, the Titans had the second pick of the NFL draft.