Houston Texans: The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Texans joined the NFL in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston's previous franchise, the Houston Oiler (now the Tennessee Titans), moved to Nashville, Tennessee.^[1] The club is one of five in the NFL that has yet to qualify for the Super Bowl, and the only team in the league that has not achieved a playoff berth.