How did you become a fan?

but, yes, I followed Vince from Austin to the Titans. I have become a true-blue Titans fan since 2006 and watched every game I could get in Austin in 08 and 09 when Vince was not playing. I owe a huge thanks to MCM. It would be really tough to be a long-distance fan without you guys. It’s a great site!

Eddie George was my favorite player though. Loved the way he played the game.

Music City Miracle sold it for me.

Being a Cubs, Blackhawks, and Bulls fan, I would always get strange looks when I told people I was a Titans fan.

Oh well.

since any of the first 3 doesn’t apply to me.

But actually I became a Titans fan as a child when I watched the movie Remember the Titans and found out that there was an NFL team with the same name. Then the Music City Miracle and it was set.

Been a fan since they were in Houston, As a kid all of my aunts and uncles and grandparents would have huge Cowboys partys…..gross! My Dad and I would go and watch the Oilers in another room, my Dad is now a punk Texans fan! anyhow are there any Titans fans in central texas! i would like to start to meet up with and have titans watch partys in Austin!

I from Houston to Kansas when they moved from Houston to Tennessee. So I have none of the hatred for them. Plus I loved Fisher, McNair, and George, and I wasn’t gonna change that because of an owners business tactics to get a new stadium. By the way I hate the Texans and to me they are just an Artificial Flavor for an Oiler Substitute.

My allegiances were with the Packers until their FO alienated me with the Favre saga. My football fanhood is still rather tepid. Yes. PTSD.

My dad owned a hobby shop in Jackson, TN during the time of their relocation to Memphis and then Nashville. I still remember my dad and one of his good customers talking about how the team always going to “be all right” because they had drafted Air McNair.

I was a Bengals fan. & the 1st year I started watching football was the same year they went to the Superbowl. I thank God everyday for Joe Montana & his comeback win. It broke my little heart(I wore my Boomer uniform w/ helmet during game). I threw out that uniform that night & cried myself to sleep.
I love(d) Bo Jackson. He ruled. So I thought I’d be a Raiders fan. But before I could really get into them(this was pre-internet for all u young’ns, which made it hard to follow a team so far away) Bo got hurt…by the damn Bengals.
I was a kid w/o a team. I had a friend whose sisters boyfriend was a big time Oilers fan, originally from Houston. He got us to sit down & watch them play. One game of that run&shoot & I was hooked!!! Warren Moon was my new fave player. Thank God they were good on Tecmo Bowl, which burried that hook in me for good.
I have sense transformed my wife into a Titans fan. & am working on my 2yr old…
When they drafted McNair, I was happy. When they got Eddie, I was THRILLED. I love bein a Titans fan up here. We are few & far between, but we are loud&proud!!

who gets excited to see other Titans fans? Its so unexpected here, its kind of a shock. There is always a hand shake, or high five & a “good to meet a friend”.
My fave is seeing a TN license plate & them seeing my Titans plate frame & getting honked at or waved to, lol.

going to Rice stadium back in the early 60’s to watch the Oilers. You guys would have loved watching them back then…they won a championship, too. Course they’ve gone through alot of changes since then…but…they’re still the same team to me…and always will be!!!

never looked back

grew up in houston watching Earl Campbell, Dan Pastorini……mmmmm……oh yeah..CURLY CULP!!! And of course Billy White Shoes Johnson..

Had my heart crushed when Mel Renfro caught the pass in the playoffs but ref called out of bounds against Pittsburg. 76? (what started instant replay I think)

Went thru the Warren Moon era…..had my heart crushed in Buffalo….

got out of football for a little while bla bla….Vince Young brought me back…….

Had my heart crushed by Ravens game…..I love Alge but…..damn….haha

I love the titans though no matter what!!!!!

When I was a kid I Did. Not. Watch. Football.

Call if blasphemy if you want, but I thought it was boring on a higher order than baseball. Of course, it didn’t help that I grew up in Portland, OR where the only game in town was Basketball and you root against Seattle on principle.

To keep it short (because I CAN ramble) my mom ended up moving to Nashville in 1998 due to her job. I followed at the end of the school year. That summer we somehow wound up with tickets to the last preseason game at Vanderbilt stadium and I grudgingly agreed to go along. I found the game quite a bit more interesting at this point, but I still wasn’t sold.

During the off-season the name change was announced and the uniform shown and I liked it. I heard a lot of complaining, but for me it was great because they had two shades of blue (my favorite color) and Titans is a cool name (at least, that was my rationale then). Then the real key to my conversion came along.

I was, for all of a year… the 1999-2000 school year, a member of Civil Air Patrol’s cadet program (I was also in JROTC in high school, but that has no bearing on the story). The Squadron Commander of the Berry Field squadron of CAP was a manager for Papa John’s Pizza. With the new stadium finished Papa John’s had a contract to sell pizza in the stadium. Most of the workers were actual Papa John’s employees, but our CO came up with the idea to have the cadets who were old enough (16, 15 with age fudging… that was me) help out and have the money that would be paid to them go to the squadron. We got to keep any tips we got.

Now, we were all cool with this as it got us free pizza every day we worked and, since at that point we were hawking pizza in the stands, we actually got to see a good bit of the game. Plus, as long as we cleaned up quick enough, we could pretty much always see most of the 4th quarter even if we were on topping duty.

By the end of the regular season, I was hooked. I went from being disinterested in football at all to the kind of fan who yells, screams, and throws things at the TV when there’s a bad call… all in the span of about 16 months.

I mentioned this in the “What is it you do” fanpost.

But the Oilers were my favorite team on Tecmo Super Bowl when I got the game for Christmas when I was 6 or 7. Warren Moon to Haywood Jeffries, Drew Hill and Ernest Givins. Lorenzo White wasn’t worth a damn but it didn’t matter with that passing attack.

They moved to Tennessee, and I followed them. I’m from Illinois so the move didn’t hit me on the personal level.

Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut.

fan since the houston oilers. still rock my moon or campbell jersey every sunday. ive lived in rochester, ny my entire life and born and raised and oilers/titans fan. first live game i saw was the playoff game in buffalo where reed, and beebe both scored td’s when they were illegally out of bounds and the pass interference on the moon int in ot. but the best revenge was gettinem back in the music city miracle game. i can undertand the hatred for the titans in houston but i truly belive theres more titans fans down there than they let on to believe. and titans fans are cool but to me i like meeting ppl who were fans before tennessee. met alot at the hall of fame game last yr. that was very refreshing. i bleed Columbia blue.
cant wait for sunday ppl go titans!!!!