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In 1919, Curley 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 name derived from the fact that Green Bay, Wisconsin used ot be a center of the meat packing industry

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