Green Bay Packers

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Green Bay Packers
Current season
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Green Bay Packers logo
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Established August 11, 1919; 105 years ago (1919-08-11)[1]
First season: 1919
Play in and headquartered at Lambeau Field
Green Bay, Wisconsin
League / conference affiliations
Independent (1919–1920)

National Football League (1921–present)

Uniforms
Team colorsDark green, gold, white[2][3]
     
Fight song"Go! You Packers Go!"
Websitepackers.com
Personnel
Owner(s)Green Bay Packers, Inc. (537,460 stockholders – governed by a Board of Directors)[4][5]
ChairmanMark Murphy
CEOMark Murphy
General managerBrian Gutekunst
PresidentMark Murphy
Head coachMatt LaFleur
Team history
  • Green Bay Packers (1919–present)
Team nicknames
  • Indian Packers (1919–1920)[6]
  • Acme Packers (1921)[7]
  • Blues (1922)
  • Big Bay Blues (1920s)[8]
  • Bays (1918–1940s)[8]
  • The Pack (current)
  • The Green and Gold (current)
Championships
League championships (13†[9][10])
† – Does not include 1966 and 1967 NFL championships won during the same season that the Super Bowl was contested
Conference championships (9)
Division championships (21)
Playoff appearances (36)
Home fields
Team owner(s)

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 of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. They are the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, established in 1919,[11][12] and are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States.[a][13] Since 1957, home games have been played at Lambeau Field. They hold the record for the most wins in NFL history.[14][15]

The Packers are the last of the "small-town teams" that were common in the NFL during the league's early days of the 1920s and 1930s.[16] 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 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.[17][18][19] Although Green Bay is the smallest major league professional sports market in North America,[a][20] Forbes ranked the Packers as the world's 27th-most-valuable sports franchise in 2019, with a value of $2.63 billion.[21]

The Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and four Super Bowl victories. The Packers, under coach Vince Lombardi, won the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967; they were the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League (AFL) before the AFL–NFL merger. After Lombardi retired, the Super Bowl trophy was named for him, but the team struggled through the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1993, the team has enjoyed much regular-season success, making the playoffs 23 times and winning two Super Bowls in 1996 under head coach Mike Holmgren and 2010 under head coach Mike McCarthy.[22][23] The Packers have the most wins (826) and the second-highest win–loss record (.571) in NFL history, including both regular season and playoff games.[24][25][26] The Packers are longstanding adversaries of the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, and Detroit Lions, who today form the NFL's NFC North division (formerly known as the NFC Central Division). They have played more than 100 games against each of those teams, and have a winning overall record against all of them, a distinction only shared with the Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, and Miami Dolphins. The Bears–Packers rivalry is one of the oldest rivalries in U.S. professional sports history, dating to 1921.

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  5. ^ "Shareholders". Packers.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
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  7. ^ Christl, Cliff (March 23, 2017). "The Acme Packers were short-lived". Packers.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
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  11. ^ "Chronology of Professional Football" (PDF). 2013 Official National Football League Record and Fact Book. NFL Enterprises, LLC. September 25, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 4, 2021. Retrieved September 6, 2021.
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  14. ^ Gordon, Grant (December 4, 2022). "Packers earn NFL-record 787th victory in franchise history, moving past rival Bears for first time". NFL.com. NFL Enterprises, LLC. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
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  16. ^ Bain, Katie (July 31, 2017). "The Green Bay Packers Are the NFL's Great Rural Anomaly". VICE. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  17. ^ Zanghi, Peter (October 2, 2014). "The Packers' roots run deep in Milwaukee". OnMilwaukee. Archived from the original on December 17, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
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  19. ^ "No screen pass: Packers-Vikings not on TV in some areas". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
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  21. ^ Badenhausen, Kurt (July 22, 2019). "The World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2019". Forbes. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
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  23. ^ "Green Bay Packers Playoff History". Pro-Football-Reference.com. January 14, 2024. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  24. ^ "List of all the Pro Football Franchises". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved August 13, 2024.
  25. ^ "Super Bowls & Championships". Packers.com. Green Bay Packers. Archived from the original on November 27, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
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