<Ul> <Li> NRG Stadium (2002--present) </Li> </Ul> <Li> NRG Stadium (2002--present) </Li> <P> The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas . The Texans compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division . The club first played in 2002 as an expansion team, which makes them the youngest franchise currently competing in the NFL . The Texans replaced Houston's previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, which moved to Nashville, Tennessee and are now the Tennessee Titans . The team's majority owner is Bob McNair . While the team mainly struggled in the 2000s, they clinched their first playoff berth during the 2011 season as AFC South division champions . The Texans have gone on to win more AFC South championships in 2012, 2015, and 2016 . To date, the Texans are the only NFL franchise to have never played in a conference championship game . </P> <P> In 1997, Houston entrepreneur Bob McNair had a failed bid to bring a National Hockey League (NHL) expansion team to the city, and Bud Adams relocated the city's NFL team, the Houston Oilers, to Nashville where they were renamed the Tennessee Titans . In 1996, a year earlier, the Cleveland Browns had controversially relocated to become the Baltimore Ravens . As part of the settlement between the NFL, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, and the team owned by Art Modell, the league promised to return football to Cleveland within the following three years . </P>

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