What Are The 4 Newest NFL Teams?
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The four newest NFL teams are the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Carolina Panthers, the Houston Texans, and the expansion team, the Dallas Cowboys.
The 4 Newest Teams in the NFL
The 4 newest teams in the NFL are the Carolina Panthers, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Houston Texans, and the Seattle Seahawks. These teams were all founded in the 1990s. The Carolina Panthers were founded in 1995, the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1995, the Houston Texans in 2002, and the Seattle Seahawks in 1976.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers currently compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the National Football Conference (NFC) South division. Along with the Seattle Seahawks, the team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team. The Bucs played their first season in the American Football Conference (AFC) West division as part of an NFL realignment plan that gave each conference four new teams. Since then, they have generally been in the NFC South, and won Super Bowl XXXVII at the end of the 2002 season.
Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jaguars have only been in the NFL since 1995, but they’ve made quite a name for themselves in a short amount of time. The team has made it to the playoffs seven times, including a trip to the AFC Championship game in 2017. The Jaguars play their home games at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida.
Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers compete in the National Football League (NFL), as a member club of the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The team is headquartered in Bank of America Stadium in uptown Charlotte; the stadium also serves as the home facility for the NFL Network headquarters. They are one of the few NFL teams to own the stadium they play their home games in.
The Panthers were announced as the league’s 29th franchise in 1993, and began play in 1995 under original owner and founder Jerry Richardson. In 2003,wiched between owner Richardson’s two Super Bowl appearances,the franchise was sold to Green Bay Packers family lineage member Jerry Jones, and then to sweet potato pie magnate Carol Fuqua during an ownership dispute. The team then advanced to the Super Bowl for the second time playing against Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos, but lost 24-10.
Houston Texans
The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The Texans compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league’s American Football Conference South division. The team plays its home games at NRG Stadium, an outdoor stadium which sits on NRG Park, giving the Texans their name. They first played in 2002 as an expansion team after Houston’s previous franchise, the Houston Oilers, relocated to Nashville, Tennessee where they were renamed the Tennessee Titans. The Oilers began play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League.
The Texans have gone on to win AFC South championships in 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2016. In 2012, they made their first trip to the playoffs and won their first playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals before losing in the divisionsal round to the New England Patriots.
