The Packers are owned by the stockholders who happen to be mostly just your average middle class citizen who mostly live in Brown County. It's capitalism at it's best. FYI: Greta Van Susteren of Fox News is a stockholder in the Green Bay Packers.
Minneapolis has a population of 370,000 but it has a franchise in every major league team in the USA. This on top of a great Division One college and several Div III schools. Its tax base is expanding thanks to the excellent leadership of Democrat Mark Dayton whose administration created a massive surplus. Harry S Truman is from KC and it was he who said, if you want to live like a Republican, vote Democrat. Had Missouri gone blue you would have a huge tax base and all those top major league teams.
I know a stockholding family from that area who are upper middle class but are not wealthy. Socialists love proletarians and view the Pack as their team.
Captialism? Stockholders can never sell the stock. All they can do is hang it on the wall and look at it until they die.
There are a few different kinds of Green Bay Packers stocks. In fact I have a couple of shares of those Green Bay Packers stocks framed and hanging on my office wall. A good conversation piece. But there are the other kind of Packer stocks where you get to vote, to decide who will be coaching the Pack. Those stockholders roots go way back to Green Bay during the early 20th Century. Green Bay is all about one thing, football.
Minnesota doesn't have a big illegal alien problem yet, so yes Minneapolis better have a surplus. But when the taco trucks start outnumbering the bratwurst trucks, Minneapolis will be in the red.
It probably has the highest percentage of illegals in the North. On top of that it has thousands of East African refugees from wars - the largest in the USA. Many local right wingers consider Minnesota to be the biggest welfare state in the country. Despite all that, the tax base is still growing.
Right on about the O-line. The entire game is about the O-line. Gotta start the season 7 deep on the O-line.
The City of St. Louis is Democrat and has been Democrat for certainly well over 50 years.. The next city the NFL will abandon will be Buffalo, mark my words. They are looking to expand to Toronto. What happened here is a cautionary tale for the rest of the NFL. Owners want Billion dollar stadiums, equivalent to what Jerry Jones built. They hold a city hostage as a result. As I said, we as taxpayers here didn't want an added tax burden to build another palacial sports complex given the infrastructure and crime in the city needs to be addressed. Kroenke was offered a stadium costing $800 million, and it was deemed insufficient. His report to the NFL stated the market here was not large enough to support an NFL franchise or lucrative enough. So I doubt any other owner will ever move here now. We've lost two NFL teams and St. Louis is regarded as zero growth for them.
Yet the St. Louis Cardinals have just about the best fan support in the country. Football owners are just a different animal.
The Packers need to move up in the draft and take this guy: 1. LAQUON TREADWELL Ole Miss, 6-foot-2, 221 pounds, 4.63 seconds in the 40-yard dash Lowdown: Famous since high school, Treadwell was a member of the killer Ole Miss recruiting class that is likely to produce three first-round picks in this year's draft. The former No. 1 receiving prospect in the nation, Treadwell has prototypical size and length for the position. Plays very instinctively and attacks the football, plucking passes from the air rather than waiting for them to arrive. Responded from a broken leg as a sophomore to put up stellar numbers as a junior: 82 catches, 1,153 yards, 11 touchdowns. Biggest concern is a lack of speed after running 4.63 seconds at his pro day. "The questions, they don't really bother me," Treadwell said at the combine. "I still have to go out there and play and have the production on the field. I don't let it get to me." Projection: First round
Glad I took the time to search out a Packers thread before I started one. Anyone else see that the guys are looking like the Pack for the 30 years prior to Favre getting the starting job?
1) Delighted with Jared Cook. Hope we resign him. 2) For goodness sake. I had no idea their was a packer thread. A bit on my Packer fan history: Went to my first game in 1958 (before Lombardi) at Milwaukee County Stadium) In 1960 my dad was transferred to Chicago where while in high school ended up on an elevator with poppa bear George Halas. He wouldn't give me his autograph because I was wearing a Packer shirt. Told me to go ask Bart Star. The very next year, my dad was transferred to Green Bay where according to google it was 280 feet from my dad's front door to Bart Starr's front door. My brother cut Bart's lawn and delivered his newspapers. I have worked in Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Oakland and Phoenix (all football towns). I have seen the Packers play 15 different stadiums around the country, and survived the lean, lean years until Favre arrived, Both my sons, born on the west coast have been raised as Packer fans. I bought each one a share of stock in the Packers, and both have visited Green Bay a number of times. Both have seen games at Lambeau Field. As an old timer, my motto is "The Bears Still Suck" My sons, being younger, hold the Vikings in contempt. Go Pack Go!
The Twin cities has many people from Wisconsin living & working here. Obviously those people know this is a better place to live and work.
Hell yes. Lived in Green Bay during the Lombardi years. Was about 280 feet from my dad's front door to Bart Starr's front door. Middle class neighborhood. Players did not earn much back then. Most had to work during off season. I bought both my sons a share of Packer stock. Others may claim it's worthless but fans I meet from other teams are jealous. Go Pack Go!
My father's roots go back to Green Bay. Have more than a few uncles, aunts and cousins who lived in Green Bay. In June or July of 1968 we were on vacation in Green Bay. I was 17, six months before I entered the Marine Corps. One day we climbed over the fence at Lambeau Field and went up to Vince Lombardi's office and asked to meet Mr. Lombardi and he invited us into his office. We talked for about half an hour, mostly Vince asking the questions, mostly about high school football. Since I was a surfer he asked about the sport of surfing. How cool was that, meeting and having a conversation with Vince Lombardi.
Why were the Packers so successful back then? Because their coach was from God's Country - that is, Brooklyn to you and others. Lombardi went to St Francis Prep High School where he excelled at football while playing for the Puppies (that's what some of us call the Terriers team). Went on to Fordham where he improved his game while playing for the famous 7 Blocks of Granite. He learned to coach the game from coaches like Colonel Red Blaik (Army) and Jim Lee Howell (NY Giants). A Hall of Fame career was the result.
It's a small world. Looks like we came close to meeting in 1968. I came back to Green Bay from Thailand and was discharged (USAF) in Sep.1968. And you were a fence jumper? LOL My younger brother and cousin climbed over a fence at Lambeau to see the 1967 Ice Bowl vs Dallas (my parents, aunt& uncle had tickets) I listened to the game on Armed Forces Radio in Thailand. Yeah, you meet Lombardi and I got stuck in an elevator with George Halas in 1963. I did meet Reggie White's wife and son when they were picking up GOP election yard signs in Green Bay and later exchanged letters with her discussing the problems her husband was having because as a minister he preached against homosexual acts. I still have a dozen relatives living there. Go Pack Go
I have been a Packer fan for 58 years and a Minnesota fan wants to lecture me on Vince Lombardi. LOL Vince was a very conservative Democrat and after reading every book written about him, I'm sure he would have been a Reagan Democrat if he had not died.
Minnesota fan? HA! I am insulted!! I will have you know that I have been a NY Giants fan for 60 years. If it had not been for BROOKLYN born Vince Lombardi you would never have gotten into the Super Bowl. As for his politics, he endorsed Kennedy but ultimately became a pro war type. One thing's for sure - he would not have been so enthused about Trump because he absolutely HATED bigotry towards minorities, having been descended of poor immigrants just like his buddy Sam Rutigliano.
Go Cowboys!!! ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
I have the "Ice Bowl" on VHS tape and I watch that game at least every year. Probably one of the greatest NFL games ever played. That's the way football is suppose to be played, not inside some indoor stadium but outside be it snowing or raining or −15 °F below zero. Doesn't look like there'll be an Ice Bowl tomorrow, the Pack will be taking on Dallas in Dallas.
