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The Green Bay Packers are a National Football League team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919. Curly Lambeau, the team's founder, solicted funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. Although the Indian Packing Company only supported the team through part of its first season, the Green Bay football club has always been known as the Packers.
The Packers became a professional franchise in 1921. Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was lost the same year. The Packers found new backers the next year and regained the franchise. The financial backers, known as the "Hungry Five", formed the Green Bay Football Corporation.
The Packers are now the only publicly owned company with shares to buy and sell and a board of directors in professional sports. The typical scenario is a team owned by one person; thus, a 'team owner'. It has been speculated that this is one of the reasons the Green Bay Packers have never been moved from the city of Green Bay, a city of just over 100,000 people. By comparison, the typical NFL football city must be populated in the millions to support a team. However, the Packers have long had a large following throughout the state of Wisconsin; in fact, for decades, the Packers played several home games each year in Milwaukee. The Packers did not move their entire home schedule to Green Bay until 1995.
In 1950, the Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team. In 1956 area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, which would later be called Lambeau Field.
The Packers have won more league championships (twelve, including two world championships) than any other professional football team. They are also the only professional football team to win three straight titles, which they did twice ( 1929, 1930, 1931, and 1965, 1966, 1967).
The Green Bay Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time. Coach Vince Lombardi took over a last-place team and built it into a juggernaut, winning five league championships over a seven-year span. Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls. The Super Bowl trophy was ultimately named the Vince Lombardi trophy in recognition of his and his team's accomplishment.
In recent decades, the Packers have found themselves with an extremely dedicated fan base. No matter how good or poor the season, Lambeau Field has been a sellout every game for years; the Packers have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. That is, someone who entered their name on the waiting list for Packers season tickets in 1970 is just now coming to the top of the list in 2004. For this reason, it is not unusual for parents to will their Packers tickets to next-of-kin.
The Packers also draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFLs Monday Night Football telecasts. Packers fans are commonly known as "cheese heads" because of the foam triangles, made to look like cheese worn on their heads.
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