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Adams became a charter AFL owner with the establishment of the Oilers (now the "Titans"). He was the senior owner (by duration) with his team, now in the National Football League, a few months ahead of Buffalo Bills' owner Ralph Wilson. Adams also was one of the owners of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and ...
Amy Adams Strunk (born September 29, 1955) is an American businesswoman best known as the controlling owner of the National Football League (NFL)'s Tennessee Titans.The daughter of the late owner Bud Adams, Strunk owns half of the Titans franchise, with Susan Lewis, the widow of her brother, and her sons Kenneth S. Adams IV and Barclay Adams owning the remaining half.
The Tennessee Titans play their home games at Nissan Stadium; the team will move to a new stadium which will be completed in 2027. Originally known as the Houston Oilers, the team was founded in 1959 by Houston oil tycoon Bud Adams, who remained the owner until his death in 2013.
The team was owned by Bud Adams, who began threatening to move the team in the late 1980s, and finally did so after the 1996 season. He moved the team to Tennessee, where they played as the Tennessee Oilers in Memphis for the 1997 season, then in Nashville for the 1998 season.
The 2001 Tennessee Titans season was the Titans' 42nd season and their 32nd in the National Football League. The team won only seven games, and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 1998. After finishing 13–3 in the two prior seasons, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams was hired as the new head coach of the Buffalo ...
In 1961, Oilers owner Bud Adams fired coach Lou Rymkus after a 1-3-1 start to the season. Assistant coach Wally Lemm took over and led the Oilers to nine consecutive victories, including the AFL ...
But Adams moved the team from Houston to Tennessee in 1997. Amy Adams Strunk, the Titans' controlling owner and Adams' daughter, has made a point of reaching out to former Oilers players and ...
Bud Adams, who was the owner of the Tennessee Titans, died on October 21. 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.