Monday 30 January 2017 11:14, UK
Tennessee Titans hold one of the NFL's newest monikers, having spent most of their life as Houston Oilers based in Texas.
They relocated to Memphis in 1997 and then Nashville a year later and became the Tennessee Titans. The Nissan Stadium, situated on the east bank of the Cumberland River opposite downtown Nashville, comes alive on game day with nearly 70,000 tenacious Titans.
Moving from Texas to Tennessee had an immediate impact on the success of the franchise as they reached their first Super Bowl at the end of the 1999 season. It was destined to be a game of firsts before it began as their opponents, St Louis Rams (now Los Angeles Rams), were also gunning for their first post-merger championship in the NFL.
It was to be the Rams' day as they ran out 23-16 winners at Georgia Dome in Atlanta, but the Titans were officially on the up in the sport that Tennessee loves.
Their high-flying offense and hard-hitting defence has seen them slowly building a franchise of the future, despite a four-year run of bad luck. They had the worst record in the league in 2015, but overturned it in 2016 with a winning season in the AFC South division.
New coach Mike Mularkey's first full season in charge almost culminated in a playoffs appearance, with the same 9-7 and .563 record as division champions, Houston Texans, so the future looks bright for the Titans (especially with the likes of AFC-best rusher, DeMarco Murray, and top-rated quarterback, Marcus Mariota, taking to the field each week).
