HOUSTON TEXANS	INDIANAPOLIS COLTS	JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS

TENNESSEE TITANS

Historical Helmets

HOUSTON TEXANS

2002 -

2002 was the Houston Texans first season in the NFL. Prior to the October 2001 announcement that the team would be using blue helmets, a white helmet design had been seen on display at some of the team's media events.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

1977 - 1994	1995 - 2003	November 25, 2004
		*see note 1 below

1957 - 1976; 2004 -

This franchise was based in Baltimore, MD through the 1983 season.

*1 This helmet design was worn during a Thanksgiving Day game at Detroit in 2004. The helmet featured two blue horseshoe decals on the back sides of the helmets (not visible from the viewpoint used at this web site); this was intended to resemble the helmets used by the team in 1956.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS

1995 - present

The Jaguars entered the league in 1995 and the current helmet design is the only one the team has ever used during any preseason or regular season game. Two earlier prototype designs which included silver helmet shells were never used on the field.

TENNESSEE TITANS including Houston/Tennessee Oilers

1960 - 1963; 1994 special	1964 - 1965	1966 - 1970

1971	1972 - 1974	1975 - 1980
* see note 1 below

1981 - 1998	1999 - present
*see note 2 below

The Titans franchise was based in Houston, TX and known as the Oilers through the 1996 season. The team played 1997 in Memphis, TN and 1998 in Nashville, TN, as the Tennessee Oilers. For the 1999 season, the team was renamed the Tennesee Titans.

*1 On some of these 1971 helmets, during some games, a gap was present between the blue and red stripes, effectively creating an additional silver stripe.

*2 A decal partially incorporating the design of the state flag of Tennessee was worn on the lower right side of this helmet, towards the back, during the 1997 and 1998 seasons.