Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers
Current season
Logo Wordmark
Uniforms
Basic info
EstablishedAugust 11, 1919 (1919-08-11)[1]
StadiumLambeau Field
Green Bay, Wisconsin
HeadquarteredLambeau Field
Green Bay, Wisconsin
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]
ChairmanEd Policy
CEOEd Policy
PresidentEd Policy
General managerBrian Gutekunst
Head coachMatt LaFleur
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)
Team history
  • Green Bay Packers (1919–present)
Home fields
  • Hagemeister Park (1919–1922)
  • Bellevue Park (1923–1924)
  • City Stadium (1925–1956)
  • Borchert Field (1933)
  • Wisconsin State Fair Park (1934–1951)
  • Marquette Stadium (1952)
  • Milwaukee County Stadium (1953–1994)
  • Lambeau Field (1957–present)
League / conference affiliations
Independent (1919–1920)

National Football League (1921–present)

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
  • NFL Western: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967
  • NFC: 1996, 1997, 2010
Division championships: 21
  • NFL West: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944
  • NFL Central: 1967
  • NFC Central: 1972, 1995, 1996, 1997
  • NFC North: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021
Playoff appearances (37)
  • NFL: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1982, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
Owner(s)
  • Green Bay Packers, Inc. (1923–present)

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 (although none since 2010 and one in the last 27 years), the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and only 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. The team's performance shifted after acquiring Brett Favre in 1992, beginning a new ongoing era which has been characterized by consistent regular-season success, with 23 playoff appearances and two Super Bowl wins 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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