Green Bay Packers

 One of the most incredible franchises in pro sports history. And that is the Green Bay Packers. The current NFL season is the 105th year that the Packers have been in existence as they were created all the way back in 1919. Holy crap my Grandfather on my dad's side was born in 1919.

The Packers were created by former Notre Dame player Earl "Curly" Lambeau and newspaper editor George Whitney Calhoun.

I like learning a lot about the history of some of these NFL teams or just history in general because it is very important to me to see where things came from. You can learn a lot from history. For this blog I was watching a documentary series about the history of the Packers on youtube which I highly recommend you go and watch, even if you are not a Packer fan or a football fan in general.

What I found amazing when I was watching the documentary series was how the duo of Lambeau and Calhoun worked together to create this team. Lambeau being the player/coach while Calhoun was creating the publicity with his newspaper business. Believe it or not youngsters, when you go see a semi pro team in any sport or youth sports organizations, the pro teams you see today had once started out just like that. These teams didn't always have money and relied on the help of the community to help build them up and the Green Bay Packers are the ultimate symbol of a small town community coming together to create something special.

In fact, the Packers are the last of the small town teams as basically everything has become a big city business. What is crazy to think that the Packers are worth of 5.6 billion dollars as of 2023 which is insane to me.

Got a lot of love for the Green Bay Packers because of this reason. I myself live a very small town with not a whole lot to do. But to see a place like Green Bay be so successful really is amazing to me and it shows that you don't always have to be a big name city in order to be successful. And there is a lot to say about small town values.

Throughout their history Green Bay has the most wins in NFL history with 826. Four Super Bowls, 11 NFL titles Pre NFL-AFL Merger, nine conference championships and 26 division titles. Yeah! I'd say the Packers have been very successful.

The Packers is also home to one of if not the greatest coach in NFL history in Vince Lombardi who led the team in which many people believe to be the franchise's greatest time period. I mean, with such great hall of fame players like Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke, Dave Robinson, Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Jerry Kramer and Herb Adderley. Yeah, I'd say they were pretty good, you can even make the argument that the 1962 Green Bay Packers are the greatest team in NFL history.

Of course, you can't talk about the Green Bay Packers without talking about how extremely cold the temperature gets there. HOLY CRAP! To this very day, I still can not get over how anybody can play football in such low, cold, snowy weather. A lot of those games have become legendary, but none is more famous the Ice Bowl where Green Bay took on another great franchise in the form the Dallas Cowboys which came down to the one yard line and Bart Starr got behind the Green Bay Packer line and muscled his way into the endzone. God Bless those guys, I am not too fond of being in cold weather myself, I can not even imagine nor do I want to play in that kind of weather.

This maybe a silly dream or may never happen, but one of things I had always thought would be a cool thing to do, was to buy stock into the Packers because they are a public owned company and I think it be pretty cool to say that I am an "Owner of an NFL franchise". I know that I wouldn't be the exactly the owner but it be cool thing to do if ever possible.

Hopefully the Packers will stay in Green Bay for many more years to come.

Until Next Time! 

God Bless and Be Safe everybody! 🙏🙏🙏

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