The Green Bay Packers Story
The history of the Green Bay Packers, from its founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun in 1919, to the present, based on the Wikipedia article. Formatted for the Kindle by Ira Krakow, with an active Table of Contents. All hyperlinks and images have been preserved. Text is from en.wikipedia.org available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ – See Terms of use for details.
Contains the details of all the games of the 2011 season, up to December 25, 2011.
Table of Contents
1 Founding
2 Notable seasons
2.1 Record 13 NFL world championships
2.2 1929–1931: Lambeau’s team arrives
2.3 1935–1945: The Don Hutson era
2.4 1946–1958: Wilderness
2.5 1959–1967: The Lombardi era and the glory years
2.5.1 1959
2.5.2 1960
2.5.3 1961
2.5.4 1962
2.5.5 1965
2.5.6 1966
2.5.7 1967
2.6 1968–1991
2.7 The Brett Favre era: 1992–2007
2.7.1 1996, Super Bowl XXXI champions
2.7.2 1997
2.7.3 1998–2006
2.7.4 2007
2.8 The Aaron Rodgers era: 2008–present
2.8.1 2008
2.8.2 2009
2.8.3 2010: Super Bowl XLV championship
3 Public company
3.1 Board of Directors
3.2 Green Bay Packers Foundation
4 Fan base
5 Nickname, logo, and uniforms
6 Stadium history
7 Statistics and records
7.1 Season-by-season results
7.2 Records
8 Players of note
8.1 Current Roster
8.2 Pro Football Hall of Fame members
8.3 Retired numbers
9 Coaches of note
9.1 Current staff
9.2 Head coaches
10 Radio and television
11 See also
12 Notes and references
13 External links
The Packers are the only community owned franchise in the NFL. In fact, this type of ownership is illegal under current NFL rules, but the Packers were grandfathered in. They’ve always been in Green Bay, and their charter is set up so that it would be virtually impossible for them to move. Here’s why:
“Based on the original “Articles of Incorporation for the (then) Green Bay Football Corporation” put into place in 1923, if the Packers franchise were to have been sold, after the payment of all expenses, any remaining money would go to the Sullivan Post of the American Legion in order to build “a proper soldier’s memorial.” This stipulation was enacted to ensure the club remained in Green Bay and that there could never be any financial enhancement for the shareholders. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation, which makes donations to many charities and institutions throughout Wisconsin.”
The Packers have won the most world championships (13) of any NFL team, the next closest being the Chicago Bears with 9. Both the glory years and the lean years (the Packers were 1-10-1 the year before Vince Lombardi took over) are recounted. Reading this article will be a nostalgic walk back in time. The Pack have given all of us a treasure trove of memories.The history of the Green Bay Packers, from its founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun in 1919, to the present, based on the Wikipedia article. Formatted for the Kindle by Ira Krakow, with an active Table of Contents. All hyperlinks and images have been preserved. Text is from en.wikipedia.org available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ – See Terms of use for details.
Contains the details of all the games of the 2011 season, up to December 25, 2011.
Table of Contents
1 Founding
2 Notable seasons
2.1 Record 13 NFL world championships
2.2 1929–1931: Lambeau’s team arrives
2.3 1935–1945: The Don Hutson era
2.4 1946–1958: Wilderness
2.5 1959–1967: The Lombardi era and the glory years
2.5.1 1959
2.5.2 1960
2.5.3 1961
2.5.4 1962
2.5.5 1965
2.5.6 1966
2.5.7 1967
2.6 1968–1991
2.7 The Brett Favre era: 1992–2007
2.7.1 1996, Super Bowl XXXI champions
2.7.2 1997
2.7.3 1998–2006
2.7.4 2007
2.8 The Aaron Rodgers era: 2008–present
2.8.1 2008
2.8.2 2009
2.8.3 2010: Super Bowl XLV championship
3 Public company
3.1 Board of Directors
3.2 Green Bay Packers Foundation
4 Fan base
5 Nickname, logo, and uniforms
6 Stadium history
7 Statistics and records
7.1 Season-by-season results
7.2 Records
8 Players of note
8.1 Current Roster
8.2 Pro Football Hall of Fame members
8.3 Retired numbers
9 Coaches of note
9.1 Current staff
9.2 Head coaches
10 Radio and television
11 See also
12 Notes and references
13 External links
The Packers are the only community owned franchise in the NFL. In fact, this type of ownership is illegal under current NFL rules, but the Packers were grandfathered in. They’ve always been in Green Bay, and their charter is set up so that it would be virtually impossible for them to move. Here’s why:
“Based on the original “Articles of Incorporation for the (then) Green Bay Football Corporation” put into place in 1923, if the Packers franchise were to have been sold, after the payment of all expenses, any remaining money would go to the Sullivan Post of the American Legion in order to build “a proper soldier’s memorial.” This stipulation was enacted to ensure the club remained in Green Bay and that there could never be any financial enhancement for the shareholders. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation, which makes donations to many charities and institutions throughout Wisconsin.”
The Packers have won the most world championships (13) of any NFL team, the next closest being the Chicago Bears with 9. Both the glory years and the lean years (the Packers were 1-10-1 the year before Vince Lombardi took over) are recounted. Reading this article will be a nostalgic walk back in time. The Pack have given all of us a treasure trove of memories.
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