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Green Bay Packer

Green Bay Packers
Current season
Established 1919; 98 years ago (1919)
First season: 1919
Play in and headquartered at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin
Green Bay Packers logo
Green Bay Packers wordmark
Logo Wordmark
League/conference affiliations

Independent (1919–1920)
National Football League (1921–present)

Current uniform
Packers 2015 uniforms.png
Team colors

Dark Green, Gold, White

              
Fight song "Go! You Packers Go!"
Personnel
Owner(s) Green Bay Packers, Inc. (360,760 stockholders–governed by a Board of Directors)
Chairman Mark H. Murphy
CEO Mark H. Murphy
President Mark H. Murphy
General manager Ted Thompson
Head coach Mike McCarthy
Team history
  • Green Bay Packers (1919–present)
Team nicknames
  • Indian Packers (1919)
  • Blues (1922)
  • Big Bay Blues (1920s)
  • Bays (1918–1940s)
  • The Pack (current)
  • The Green and Gold (current)
Championships

League championships (13)†

Conference championships (9)

Division championships (18)

† - Does not include the AFL or NFL championships won during the same seasons as the AFL-NFL Super Bowl championships prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger
Playoff appearances (32)
Home fields

Independent (1919–1920)
National Football League (1921–present)

Dark Green, Gold, White

League championships (13)†

Conference championships (9)

Division championships (18)

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 club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. They are also the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, organized and starting play in 1919. It is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games are played at Lambeau Field.

The Packers are the last vestige of "small town teams" common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. 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. They joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA), the forerunner of today's NFL, in 1921. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest professional sports market in North America, its local fan and media base extends 120 miles south into Milwaukee, where it played selected home games between 1933 and 1994.

The Packers have won 13 league championships, the most in NFL history, with nine NFL titles before the Super Bowl era and four Super Bowl victories. They won the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968 and were the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League (AFL) prior to the AFL–NFL merger. The Vince Lombardi Trophy is named after the Packers head coach of the same name, who guided them to their first two Super Bowls. Their two further Super Bowl wins came in 1997 and 2011.


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