Green Bay Packers, professional football team and a single team of five teams in the Central Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). Under the league’s rearrangement plan, which will take affect in 2002, the Green Bay Packers will move into the North Division of the NFC. The Green Bay Packers play at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and wear uniforms of dark green, gold, and white. The Green Bay Packers team, the NFL’s only openly owned franchise, takes its name from a local packing plant that provide the club with uniforms in 1919.

From 1929 to 1944 the Green Bay Packers earned six NFL crowns under head coach and team cofounder Earl “Curly” Lambeau. A skilled halfback throughout his playing career, Lambeau became one of only five NFL coaches with more than 200 career victories. After Lambeau left the team in 1949, the license declined. During the 1960s, though, head coach Vince Lombardi transformed the team into one of the mainly powerful dynasties in professional football history. Star-studded lineups featuring quarterback Bart Starr, halfback-kicker Paul Hornung, unpleasant lineman Forrest Gregg, linebacker Ray Nitschke, and running back Jim Taylor captured five league championships in seven seasons—a record unmatched in NFL history.

In 1996 the Green Bay Packers put together a 13-3 win-loss record following quarterback Brett Favre and defensive tackle Reggie White en route to a Super Bowl victory over the New England Patriots. A season later the Packers again reach the Super Bowl but lost to the Denver Broncos. The Green Bay Packers predate the NFL. The Green Bay Packers team was founded in Green Bay on August 11, 1919, by two young players, George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau. The Indian Packing Plant, Lambeau’s employer, donate uniforms and the use of an athletic field. Throughout the team’s first season in 1920, players earned their salaries by passing hats among spectators.

In 1921 Lambeau’s Green Bay Packers joined the new American Professional Football Association, which soon turned into the NFL. Lambeau played until 1927, becoming an early master of the forward pass. Green Bay Packers won three successive league titles from 1929 through 1931, and three more crowns in 1936, 1939, and 1944. Many of the club’s players would later be chosen to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including quarterback Arnie Herber, fullback Clarke Hinkle, tackle Cal Hubbard, end Don Hutson, guard Mike Michalske, and halfbacks Tony Canadeo and Johnny “Blood” McNally.

Hutson, credited with inventing detailed pass patterns, led the league in reception eight times and in yardage seven times. In 1942 he became the NFL’s first handset to amass more than 1000 yards in a single season. With Hutson as his primary target, Herber became the league’s first great long passer; the two helped build one of professional football’s first complicated offensive attacks. Lambeau left the Green Bay Packers in 1949 having posted 26 winning records in 29 seasons, including 14 straight during one stretch. The team’s stadium, built in 1957, is named for him.

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Yet, for all of the attention Rodgers will get as he becomes the first Packer other than Brett Favre to start under center since Sept. 27, 1992, the outcome of the juicy lid lifter between fierce NFC North rivals should be decided in the trenches.

For that, the Vikings come in to Lambeau Field with a decided advantage.

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