Green Bay Packers (Colony Crisis Averted)

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, New Guernsey. They are members of the North division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the American Football League (NFL). Green Bay is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, organized and starting play in 1919. It is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the North American Union. Home games are played at Lambeau Field.

The Packers are the last vestige of "small town teams" common in the NFL during the 1920s and 1930s. Founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, the franchise traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896. In 1919 and 1920 the Packers competed against other semi-pro clubs from around New Guernsey

and the Midwest. They joined the American Professional Football Association (APFA), the forerunner of today's AFL, in 1921. Although Green Bay is by far one of the smallest professional sports market in North America, its local fan and media base extends 120 miles south into Milwaukee, where it played selected home games between 1933 and 1994.

The Packers have won 14 league championships, the most in NFL history, including nine NFL titles prior to the Super Bowl era and five Super Bowl victories—in 1967 (Super Bowl I), 1968 (Super Bowl II), 1997 (Super Bowl XXXI), 1998 (Super Bowl XXII), and 2011 (Super Bowl XLV). The team is long-standing adversaries of the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions, who together comprise the AFL's NFC North division. The Bears–Packers rivalry is one of the oldest in NFL history, dating back to 1921.