Green Depression
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The Green Bay Packers - A Community-Owned Legend
On August 11, 1919 a shipping clerk, for a canned meat packing company, along with a sports editor, for a paper serving Northeast Wisconsin, gathered a couple of husky young athletes together to form what has grow to be a football legacy.
Inside the dingy editorial room of the Green Bay Press Gazette, "Curly" Lambeau, the shipper, and George Calhoun, the editor, co-founded and brought to life the Green Bay Packers Football Team.
The Indian Packing Company, where Curly Lambeau was a shipping clerk, bought the team's very first jersey's and let them use the company athletic field for practice and games. With this tie-in the name "Packers" was a natural, and stuck all these 92 years.
Curly Lambeau not merely co-founded but was the very first coach of the Packers. He led them to a first season record of ten wins and one loss against teams from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. The Packers had been such a productive team that on August 27, 1921 the American Professional Football Association admitted the Green Bay Packers franchise into the league.
But all was not rosy for the Packers. Curly Lambeau was caught making use of college players on his team as well as the money paying consumers couldn't fairly pay the freight bill and also the franchise was taken away. But Lambeau wouldn't be kept down. He secured new backers, put up $50.00 of his own money, and promised the league he would play by the rules. The Packers had been back within the football enterprise for the 1922 season. But, more troubles loomed that season. Rain forced the cancellation of 1 game, the insurance firm refused to pay the claim. A late season storm cancelled the game against Duluth, putting the team at the brink of bankruptcy. Lambeau went to town businessmen and formed what was later dubbed 'The Hungry Five' who financed and backed the team. They incorporated the team as a non-profit corporation and established the Green Bay Packers Board of Directors.
'The Hungry Five' consisted of Curly Lambeau who served the team as coach, publisher of the Green Bay Post Gazette A.B. Turnbull who served as the first president of the board, attorney Gerald Clifford who handled the teams legal affairs, Dr. W. Webber Kelly who was the team physician, and Leland Joannes who was the board president for 17 years and lead the Packers by means of the Wonderful Depression.
The team has gone to the fans having a stock drive four times in its history. The very first was in 1923 where local merchants sold 1,000 shares at $5 to raise $5,000. In 1935 the corporation went into receivership, it sold raised $15,000 and reorganized as the Green Bay Packers Inc., the present business. 1950 brought an additional drive. The folks of the state of Wisconsin, also as former Green Bay residents raised nearly $118,000 with $50,000 raised in one 11 day period. 105,989 new shareholders were added in late 1997 when more than $24 million was raised to redevelop Lambeau Field.
Purchasing stock in Green Bay Packers Inc. is for the really like of the team only. Each and every shareholder knows when they purchase stock that they are not allowed to sell their shares to anybody but the team, and at a substantial loss. Shareholders do not get dividends; free of charge tickets to Lambeau Field, swag (not even a foam cheesehead). What they do get is often a professional football team that will not hold them ransom with the threat of leaving.
From 1921 to 2010 the Green Bay Packers have won 654, lost 524 and tied 36 games in normal season. Add to that 29 wins and 16 losses in playoff games. This adds up to a total of 693 wins 540 losses and 36 ties. Then add the 13 league championships they've the trophies for, nine of which were NFL championships just before the Super-Bowl era. The other four are Super-Bowl championships.
The Green Bay Packers are only second to their nemesis, the Chicago Bears, for the number of people inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton Ohio. With 21 inductees they trail the Chicago Bears' 26 but lead the Washington Redskins, New York Giants and Pittsburg Steelers every with 18.
In December 1986 the team formed the Green Bay Packers Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to helping a wide selection of programs and activities that benefit civic affairs, human services, well being care, education and youth programs.
In 1999 at the annual stockholders meeting the foundation was produced the recipient of any remaining assets if the team ever was sold or dissolved. No shareholder is allowed to own a lot more than 200,000 shares to maintain any individual from gaining control over the team. This also put the Packers in a exclusive place, in that it is impossible to move them from the state of Wisconsin. As a result they have remained within the tiny marketplace of Green Bay.
Green Bay Wisconsin boasts a population of 100,355 in 2010 based on the U.S. Census. Yet volunteers work the concession stands, with sixty percent of the profits going to local charities. When Lambeau Field wants the snow removed a call goes out for assist as well as the fans flock to assist shovel. Also, you can go here for more info on promotional footballs.
Other Cheesehead (Packer Fan) Facts
Regardless of performance, every single game at Lambeau Field given that 1960 has been sold out. Even with the smallest local TV market Cheesehead's are the greatest fan base within the NFL. You will find 86,000 individuals on the waiting list for season tickets, which indicates the waiting list has more people than seats in Lambeau Field. In August of 2008 ESPN.com named Cheesehead's the second-best fans in the NFL. Initially they had been tied with the Pittsburg Steelers fans, but John Clayton a native of Pittsburg and of ESPN broke the tie.
A summer training camp tradition started in 1957 continues nowadays. Young Packers fans can bring their bikes to the field. Players will then ride the bike from the practice field to the locker room. Gary Knafelc, who was an end in 1957, said, "The youngsters just wanted us to ride their bikes. I can bear in mind kids saying, 'Hey, ride my bike.'" And Packers players still ride young Cheesehead's bikes today.
The Green Bay Packers and their fans along with the City of Green Bay have formed a strong community that runs to the aid of the other in time of want and celebrate the victories like none other.
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