Chart: Temporary quarters for NFL teams

September 10, 2014 at 5:13AM
Chicago Bears' Curry Dawson (68), Christian Peter, in front of Dawson, Alex Brown (96) and Joe Tafoya, right, warm up before the Bears' exhibition game against the Denver Broncos at Memorial Stadium, home of the University of Illinois football team, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2002, in Champaign, Ill. The Bears will play all of their home games at the stadium in 2002, while Soldier Field in Chicago undergoes a renovation. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) ORG XMIT: CHS102
While Soldier Field was being rebuilt, the Bears spent the 2002 season downstate, at the Illinois’ Memorial Stadium. (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

TEMPORARY QUARTERS

Here's a look at how some other NFL teams on the move fared:

Carolina Panthers

The Panthers played a state away, in

Clemson's Memorial Stadium in South Carolina, for the 1995 season while the expansion franchise awaited its new stadium to be finished in Charlotte, N.C.

Record: 7-9, including a 5-3 home record

Chicago Bears

The Bears played at the University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium in Champaign during the 2002 season while Soldier Field was being renovated.

Record: 4-12 overall, 3-5 at home

St. Louis Rams

The Rams played the first two games of the 1995 season — their first after relocating from Los Angeles — at old Busch Stadium while the finishing touches were put on their new dome.

Record: 2-0

Seattle Seahawks

Played at the University of Washington's Husky Stadium in 2000 and 2001 while Qwest Field was being built.

Record: 15-17 in two seasons, 9-7 at home. They didn't make the playoffs either year.

Tennessee Titans

The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee in 1997, calling themselves the Tennessee Oilers. While awaiting a stadium being built in Nashville, they played their 1997 season at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis and the 1998 season at Vanderbilt Stadium in Nashville. In 1999 they became the Tennessee Titans.

Record: 16-16 overall, 9-7 at home, including a 6-2 mark in 1997. The Titans made it to the Super Bowl after the 1999 season.

KENT YOUNGBLOOD

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