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  • Green Bay Packers 1919

    Green Bay Packers Team Formation

    The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919, by former high-school football rivals Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team is named for its sponsor. The Green Bay Packers have played in ...
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  • Stock Certificate Green Bay Packers

    Green Bay Packers, Inc.

    Green Bay Packers, Inc. is the official name of the publicly held nonprofit corporation that owns the Green Bay Packers football franchise of the National Football League (NFL). The Packers are the only community-owned team in American major league professional sports. Rather than being the property of an individual, partnership, or corporate entity, they are held as of 2015 by ...
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  • Lambeau Field 1957

    Lambeau Field

    Lambeau Field is an outdoor athletic stadium in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. It opened in 1957 as City Stadium, replacing the original City Stadium at East High School as the Packers’ home field. Informally known as New City Stadium for its first eight seasons, it was renamed in ...
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  • Green Bay Super Bowl I - 1966

    Super Bowl I Winner 1966

    The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional football, known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporary reports as the Super Bowl, was played on January 15, 1967, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Kansas City ...
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  • Super Bowl II Green Bay 1967

    Super Bowl II Winner 1967

    The second AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional football, known retroactively as Super Bowl II, was played on January 14, 1968, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The National Football League (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) champion Oakland Raiders by the score of 33–14.
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  • Brett Favre - Green Bay Packers 1993

    Trade For Brett Favre

    Soon afterward, Wolf acquired quarterback Brett Favre from the Atlanta Falcons for a first-round pick. Favre got the Packers their first win of the 1992 season, stepping in for injured quarterback Don Majkowski and leading a comeback over the Cincinnati Bengals. He started the following week, a win against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and never missed another start for Green Bay ...
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  • Desmon Howard Super Bowl 1996

    Super Bowl XXXI Winner 1996

    Super Bowl XXXI was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1996 season. The Packers defeated the Patriots by the score of 35-21, earning their third overall Super Bowl victory, and their first ...
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    Super Bowl XLV Winner 2010

    Super Bowl XLV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Green Bay Packers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2010 season. The Packers defeated the Steelers by the score of 31–25. The game was played on February 6, 2011, at Cowboys Stadium ...
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The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. They are also the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, organized and starting play in 1919. It is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games are played at Lambeau Field.

The Packers are the last of the "small-town teams" which were common in the NFL during the league's early days of the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. Between 1919 and 1920, the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around Wisconsin and the Midwest, before joining the American Professional Football Association (APFA), the forerunner of today's NFL, in 1921. In 1933, the Packers began playing the part of their home slate in Milwaukee until changes at Lambeau Field in 1995 made it more lucrative to stay in Green Bay full time; Milwaukee is still considered a home media market for the team. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, Forbes ranked the Packers as the world's 27th most valuable sports franchise in 2019, with a value of $2.63 billion.





Established
1919

City
Green Bay

League History
1921 - Present / National Football League
1919 - 1920 / Independent

Team History
1919 - Present / Green Bay Packers

Nickname
Packers - The name was a natural since the team was sponsored first by the Indian Packing Company and later the Acme Packing Company. Although both companies went out of business, the team prospered under the name Packers.

Championship
Super Bowl 4
2011, 1997, 1968, 1967
NFL Championships 9
1965, 1962, 1961, 1944, 1939, 1936, 1931, 1930, 1929

Stadium
1957 - Present / Lambeau Field
1925 - 1956 / City Stadium
1923 - 1924 / Bellevue Park
1919 - 1922 / Hagemeister Park

Owner
1935 - Present / Green Bay Packers Inc.
1922 - 1935 / Earl "Curly" Lambeau, Andrew B. Turnbull, Gerald Francis Clifford, Dr. W. Webber Kelly and Leland H. Joannes
1919 - 1922 / J.E. Clair, Earl "Curly" Lambeau, George Whitney Calhoun

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Retired Number
3 / Tony Canadeo
4 / Brett Favre
14 / Don Hutson
15 / Bart Starr
66 / Ray Nitschke
92 / Reggie White

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