The team was originally sponsored by a meat packing company.
The Indian Meat Packing Company only sold canned meat. The same for Acme Packing Company. These companies financed the Green Bay Packers football team.
When they first started the organization they were sponsored by a meat packing company so they named themselves after them.
The Indian Packing Company packed a type of canned meat. This meat was similar to Spam. Indian Packing Company later became Acme Packing Company and was the first sponsor of the Green Bay Packers football team.
The Indian Packing Company was a meat packing company, the employer of Curly Lambeau (one of the original founders of the Green Bay Packers), and the namesake of the Packers. Diane
If this question can be answered, the Packers were orignally called the Indians, for part of the 1919 season after the Indian Meat Packing Company in Green Bay that put up the money for equipment and uniforms. Later in the same season Lambeau (an employee of the meat packing company) called his team the Packers. It has been the Packers ever since.
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The person who started the Green Bay Packers used to run a packing place, where they would pack stuff. I know this because I live nearby Green Bay.
they were named after an Indian meat packing co.
Curly Lambeau founded the Packers and built his team around the ACME meat packing company he worked for.
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The Indian Meat Packing Company payed for the team's uniforms and athletic field when they were originally established in 1919.