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The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They currently are members of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team relocated to the state of Tennessee in 1997 initially playing in Memphis for one season before moving to Nashville. The Tennessee Titans began in 1960 as the Houston Oilers, charter members of the American Football League. The Oilers appeared in the first three AFL championships. After winning the first-ever AFL championship over the Los Angeles Chargers in 1960, they repeated over the same team in 1961. They lost to the Dallas Texans in the classic 1962 double-overtime AFL championship game, at the time the longest, and still one of the best professional football championship games ever played.

The Titans made the playoffs in their inaugural year in the "Music City", which was capped off by their unbelievable first round playoff victory over the Buffalo Bills. Tennessee won their first round playoff game on a controversial play that became to be known as the "Music City Miracle": Tight end Frank Wycheck made a lateral pass to Kevin Dyson on a kickoff return with 13 seconds left in the game and the Titans trailing by 1 point; Dyson returned the pass 75 yards for a touchdown to win the game. The Titans made an AFC Championship Game appearance in 2002 but lost to Oakland who went on to lose Super Bowl XXXVII to Tampa Bay. Quarterback Steve McNair won the MVP award, sharing it with Peyton Manning in 2003. The Titans made the 2003 playoffs, winning their first-round game over the Baltimore Ravens and losing in the AFC semifinals to the New England Patriots.

The 2004 season was disappointing for the Titans, who suffered an unusual number of injuries to key players. Their 5-11 record turned out to be their second-worst record ever since the Houston/Tennessee Oilers became the Tennessee Titans. Numerous key players were cut or traded by the Titans front office during the off season, including Derrick Mason, Samari Rolle, Kevin Carter, and others. This was done most likely to "clean house", or free up money to put the team farther under the salary cap to make further player acquisitions.

In 2005, the Titans took the field with the youngest team in the NFL. Several rookies made the 2005 team including 1st round pick Adam "Pacman" Jones, RT Michael Roos, and a trio of talented receivers in the likes of Brandon Jones, Courtney Roby, and Roydell Williams. Exciting news for the future came when on the 2006 NFL Draft day the Titans, with the third pick of the draft chose Vince Young, star quarterback out of the University of Texas, and with their second round pick, picked USC running back LenDale White.