The Packers were founded in 1919 by Curley Lambeau and George Calhoun of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Lambeau asked his employer, the Indian Packing Company, for money to buy uniforms. They gave him $500 on the condition that the team be named after the company. Lambeau named the team the 'Packers'.
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The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Green Bay is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, having been organized and playing in 1919.[5] The Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the United States.
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1919: On the evening of August 11th a group of young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building and organized a football team. The initial spark had been struck a few weeks before during a casual street corner conversation between Lambeau and Calhoun. They talked Curly's employer at the Indian Packing Company into putting up some money for equipment. Because the packing company, which also permitted the use of its athletic field for practice, had provided the team's jerseys the club was identified in its early publicity as a project of the company. With this tie-in the name "Packers" was a natural, although the corporation had practically faded out of the picture before the season was half over. That 1st season the team won 10 games and lost only 1 against other teams from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Games were played in an open field with no fences or bleachers, and interested fans "passed the hat."
The name comes from when the team was founded in 1919. Curly Lambeau, one of the founders, asked for money from his employer, the Indian Packing Company, to pay for equipment and uniforms. He was given $500 on the condition that the team be named for the company.
The team was named Packers for the Indian Packing Company.
The Green Bay Packers are called this because their original name was the Acme Packers. Acme being a meat packing plant that sponsored the original team giving them the money needed to get started as a football team. Once Acme went away they changed their team to the Green Bay Packers to honor the town they play in.
Green Bay.
There seems to be a story floating around that it stands for "greatness," but there's no evidence to back it up. Don't overthink the obvious answer.