actually about the same the teams were different the college teams my dad loved and i followed was Marshall and Vandy. Not the best teams to be liking but you know like father like son. On the NFL side though he liked the bengals and i just couldn’t like a team that could not win to save their ass. So i was a Cowboy fan due to 2 uncles of mine. When 97 came around I was glad that TN had a NFL team but like jimmy said I didn’t switch until 99 when they actually became Tennessee’s Team, and yes that season was magical and also heartbreaking, I will never forget my knees hitting the floor when K. Dyson’s were hitting the turf, But thats why I’m a Titans fan.

Thus I was decked out in 49ers garb for many a school picture back when they ruled the world. Once Joe left for KC I gave up on Pro Ball for a while and started concentrating on Vandy (a harrowing decision for any young man, believe me, but the DeNardo years helped).

After that I was a Jets fan until the Titans came to town. I was already very familiar with the Oilers because I spent a month of 2 ever summer with my Dad’s family in Wichita Falls, TX (thus me being a big Houston Astros fan).

I’d been dying for an NFL team to move here since I was a little kid, so to get a team; and especially one full of admirable men like Bruce Matthews, The Freak, McNair, Eddie, Frank etc. was a dream come true.

I’m an Army brat. We moved a number of times as I was growing up, but always lived near the bad NFL teams (specifically, Bengals and Saints). I was a fan, but I considered myself more a fan of the sport than of any one team, because I knew we’d always move again.

Then we came to Nashville, and my dad retired from military service. It just so happens that Nashville is about halfway between both of my parents’ families (he’s from Alabama, she’s from East Tennessee) and they decided to stay here. I am now entering high school, and for the first time I know I am actually going to be at one school for that portion of my education (I went to 6 different elementary and middle schools).

Right around this same time is when the effort to get an NFL team to Nashville begins (we, of course, had the yellow “NFL Yes!” sign in our yard). I immediately decide I’m going to follow this new team if they actually do move here, and then we discover that the stadium is going to be built less than 2 miles from our house. My fate as a fan was thus sealed.

Fast forward to that magical 1999 season – I’m a freshman in college (the first time), my roommate is from Toronto and is the world’s largest Buffalo Bills nut. Yes, I watched the Music City Miracle with a Bills fan; he didn’t speak to me for a week and to this day is convinced it was a forward pass. All I have to do to get him going is call him on the phone and say “it was a lateral!”

all my family was a huge cowboy fan except for my uncle and my dad and of course i followed my pops and started rooting for the oilers. we would get season tickets to go watch them play since houston was a 3 hour drive from the coast. when they moved to tenn i followed my team and became a titan fan. on the college side i am a diehard longorn fan and think that vince can be everything to the titans as mcnair was to the oilers/titans. of course the only knock is that when mcnair came into the league his nickname was “air mcnair” so we knew we were going to be able to get the ball downfield just like moon did for the run and shoot. but my gut feeling is that vince is cut from a different mold and can be dominant just like he was at texas or the college football world for that matter. we just need to let him learn and grow and drop all this crap that he will be a bust as an NFL qb.

were Bears fans so I followed them as a kid growing up. When I was in high school I fell in love with watching Warren Moon and the run-n-shoot. Then some heart-breaking losses, Buddy Ryan punching Kevin Gilbride and there was no turning back. The moment I actually knew I was a fan was December 7, 1992. The Bears played at Houston on MNF, and I was cheering for the Oilers, not the Bears. My college graduation present in 1996 was a trip to Houston to see them in the dome before they left. I actually saw the last Houston Oilers home win. I was thrilled when they moved to Nashville, now they are only 4 1/2 hours away! My father has passed away, but my brother and I are trying to line up some tickets for the Titans/Bears game this November!

So, I always thought the NFL was cool, but without a home team. I never really got into it. When we got the Titans I thought it was great and I would watch some games but I wasn’t really crazy about it all. The at the end of 2005 my friend was trying to talk to me about soccer saying it was “more of a team sport- no stars-and less complicated rules”...yeah, I thought..It made sense…I haven’t watched a game in a while and never got it totally. Soccer was a even checker game. Then I really got it. Football isn’t checkers…it’s chest. With strategies, plans, and good o’ fashion tackles. Try to get that out of soccer. But The Titan’s weren’t totally us without a Titan-drafted QB. Don’t get me wrong, I love McNair. But it just isn’t the same. So I wanted to “check out” VY. When my jaw hit the floor. I became a huge fan ever since. My mom even got into it. We watch games every Sunday when we can together.

I too was a military brat growing up. My dad was a Marine, and he was stationed at Camp Pndleton when I was born. So I started as a Chargers fan, and am, in fact, still a fan of the Chargers, although the current group strikes me as whiny and focused on their entitlement to a championship they’ve never earned.

Like a few others, I spent many summers with my grandparents in Middle TN when I was growing up. Both my parents and grandparents went to UT, and so I grew up as a confirmed member of the Volunteer Nation. And when the Oilers came to TN, I was interested but skeptical. But I broke tradition with my family and went to school in New York, and really that would have been the end of it but for the fact that I was stationed in Korea in 1999-2000. Watching the Titans’ Super Bowl run was probably the best thing that happened to me all that year. And then I left the Army and lived with my folks for the 2000 season, attending several games that year including both against the Ravens.

The rest is history.

Today I live in CT, work in Manhattan, and root for the Tennesssee Titans.

My Story ist quite stupid :D

I live in Germany so I’ve never seen any football until the winter before Super Bowl XL. I had an cheap version of Madden (I think it was 04) and I was bored in the winter holidays, so I played the game and learned the rules by playing Madden. The first team I took were the Titans (I think they were one of the best in the 04 Madden) and I loved them. Espacially Eddie George and Steve McNair. I followed the Offseason and as McNair went to the Ravens I thought that I want to be a Ravens fan, but unfortunaly it didn’t worked out, so I stayed with the Titans. With drafting VY, the Titans got my new favourite player and everything was fine…

...but I am originally from the Philippines and American Football is really non-existent there back in the 90’s. I learned only of American Football through movies. I got hooked and started reading and watching as much as I can thru the internet, magazines and ESPN. Then one TV station here tried promoting football by showing preseason games and the playoffs. First playoff game that I saw was the Music City Miracle. I love Eddie George. And eversince I have become a Titans fan.

First playoff game that I saw was the Music City Miracle.

Damn dude! That didn’t make all games a disappointment to you afterwards? That’s like having you first sexual experience be [insert crude but supremely erotic situation involving you favorite famous crush].

It’s great that you found the Titans from the Philippines, though. Do you still live there?

I moved to Tennessee during the winter break of my 8th grade year. The dad took me to a super bowl party where it was the Titans vs Rams. Being a Bears fan, I didn’t have a care for either team and I just watched. I became a fan after I watched McNair march the team down the field and fall 1 yard short of glory.

I continued to like the team since in the years where McNair was always hurt and never practiced, but came out on Sundays and won games.

I can’t say they are my primary team (sorry). But I follow the Titans pretty extensively.

Hey guys, this is my first post and I’m glad this will be my Titans community. I’m a 23 year old Nashville native so I can remember the days when there was no NFL team. My dad never was much of an NFL fan so I was never pushed to be a fan of one team or another.

My pre-Titan team was the Miami Dolphins( I still like the Fins,just nowhere near as much as the Titans) because of Marino, the fact they were on TV all the time, and they had cool jerseys etc.

I became a Titans fan when the team shed the ‘Oilers’ name. Honestly if they hadn’t I probably wouldn’t be a fan, but once the team became the Titans and had their own identity, I fell in love with the team as it finally felt like our own club.

If there was one moment when I knew the Titans were my team it would have been after the Music City Miracle. What an amazing moment, and it relaly felt great for me since I grew up a Dolphins fan and remembered seeing the Bills defeat them several times in the playoffs. It felt like revenge.

Go Titans!

I was a big Bills fan when I was a kid and then all of the players changed and I stopped caring about the NFL for a while, especially since Houston didn’t have a team. Then when VY was drafted, I started following the Titans and still do.