Green Bay Packers Facts

Hold your own tonight when talking about the big game...here are some facts about the Green Bay Packers!

* The Packers emerged from semi-professional regional football in Wisconsin to make the big time and are the only team in major league sports to be owned by their fans and not a private ownership group.  (Yes, you can buy stock in the Packers...my brother owns a share)
* Green Bay, with a population of 101,000, is by far the smallest city to have an NFL team, although it is part of a metropolitan area of around 280,000 residents.
* The Packers have won a record 12 league championships, nine before the Super Bowl began.
* The Packers have arguably the most distinctive fans in the league, whose trademark hat is a giant foam piece of cheese, giving them the name "cheeseheads".
* The Packers have won the Super Bowl three times, including the first two that were played.  (Let's make that four tonight...)
* The most famous coach in NFL history, Vince Lombardi, won five NFL championships with the Packers and the Super Bowl trophy is named after him.
* The most memorable game Green Bay played was not the Super Bowl, but the championship game against the Dallas Cowboys at the Packers' Lambeau Field on New Years Eve, 1967. That game became known as the 'Ice Bowl' because it was played in minus 25 Celsius (-15 Fahrenheit) temperatures. Quarterback Bart Starr won the game, running in a sneaky lastgasp touchdown.
* The Packers' third Super Bowl win featured record-breaking quarterback Brett Favre. Favre, who played 16 years with Green Bay, caused a furor when he later joined bitter local rivals the Minnesota Vikings at the end of his career...or was it the end?...
Thanks, Reuters.com!
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The "G" in the Green Bay Packers logo was thought up and designed by George Braisher, the team's equipment manger, in 1961. The "G" is often mistakenly thought to represent "Green Bay", but when the logo was first approved, it was agreed upon that the "G" would stand for "Greatness". The team has used a few different logos prior to 1961, but the "G" is the only symbol that has ever appeared on the helmet.

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