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Established August 11, 1919 First season: 1919 Play in and headquartered at Lambeau Field, Green Bay, Wisconsin |
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Independent (1919–1920)
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Current uniform
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Team colors |
Dark Green, Gold, White |
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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 | ||||
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Championships | |||||
League championships (13)† |
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Conference championships (9) |
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Division championships (18) |
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† - 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) | |||||
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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 is 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. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957.
The Packers is the last of the "small town teams" which were common in the NFL during the 1920s and 30s. 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. Although Green Bay is by far the smallest major league 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. And despite its small market, Forbes ranked the Packers as the world's 26th most valuable sports franchise in 2016, with a value of $2.35 billion.