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The History of the Green Bay Packers

The Green Bay Packers, a football team in the NFL, are one of the oldest and most respected franchises in sports history. To many people, they are the league’s most consistently successful team. That is a complement when the NFL has had all but eight teams be league champions. The reason that many believe that the Packers achieve such a high rate of success is because of great history and tradition. Over a long period of time, the Packers have become known as the leagues most historically rich team, helping the NFL become as great as it is today.(Anderson 66)

The Packers started out by J.E. Clair of Acme Packing Company granting the NFL a franchise for the Green Bay Packers on August twenty seventh of 1921 and the Packers have never looked back since. The next big accomplishment of this franchise was their first ever championship in 1929(Official Packers website). They did the same the next two years after thier first title, making them the team to beat in the NFL. Then sadly, a great era of Packer football ended as the great career of Curly Lambeau came to an end when he resigned in 1950. His legacy lived on when the great stadium the Packers played in then and still play in today was renamed in his honor and became Lambeau F


Throughout all of the good times and harder times in the Packers organization, they have become known as the most historical team in the history of the league. No team has one more games, or superbowls in their history (Flynn 349) Yet for some reason fans will come out for a different reason, not because they win, because of the great tradition that is Green Bay Packers football.

The Packers finally signed a coach that they thought would bring respect and winning back to Lambeau Field. That coach was Vince Lombardi. They knew that they had a good coach when he made his motto ”Winning isn’t everything, it is the only thing,” (Barlett 131). They signed him in 1959, and in the years since then, coach Lombardi has come to be known as the greatest football coach ever. Although Vince did not come in and dominate on day one of his reign in Green Bay, it only took him one year of failure to get the Packers back to championship caliber. In 1961-1962, he made the Packers champions again. Then they only took a three year absence from the crown to make him hungry enough to win another super bowl in 1965, the same year that Curly Lambeau died at age 67. Then in the most famous super bowl game ever, Vince Lombardi marched his team out to play the Cowboys in the game that everyone now knows as the “Ice Bowl’ where Dallas and Green Bay met head to head in a match when the temperature was negative eleven degrees. In the game, Bart Star became famous by rushing the ball into the endzone

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