Team Culture of Green Bay Packaging Team

Indian Packaging Company, the earliest sponsor of the packaging team, was acquired by Acme Packaging Company in 1920, but the latter continued to sponsor the packaging team, so Acme was written on the uniform of the packaging team in its first league season (192 1). The color scheme of the early uniforms was navy blue and gold, mainly because Curly Lambeau, the founder of the team, came from Notre Dame University and borrowed the color scheme of his alma mater's football team.

In the season of 1950, Gene Ronzani, then head coach of the packers' team, decided to add green to the team's color scheme, which was also in line with the place name of Green Bay. From then on, the blue faded out, and the packers were named "Green Gold Team".

1959, Vince Lombardi established the uniform template that packers have been using, and chose the forest green color scheme. After that, it was not until 1987 that the head coach forest Gregg made some major changes to this version of the jersey, including adding the team logo to the cuff of the jersey and increasing the number of the shoulder jersey.

The official team logo used by the packers is also related to the era in which Vince Lombardi lived-1961year, Lombardi asked the team to design the G-shaped team logo that is still in use today to replace the previous informal team logo, and then in 1964, the packers authorized the University of Georgia football team to use the team logo that is almost the same as its design.

In 20 12, NFL changed its equipment supplier from Reebok to Nike, but unlike most teams, the packers rejected all suggestions made by Nike on team Logo, uniforms and team color matching, and still adhered to the traditional design, only replacing the new alliance logo and equipment supplier logo according to the mandatory requirements of the league. The packers have the most loyal fans in the NFL. Although the population of Green Bay is only over 65,438+million, which is the smallest city in professional sports in the NFL and even North America, all the tickets for the home game of the packers have been sold out since 1960. There are as many as 86,000 fans waiting on the season ticket sales list, even exceeding the capacity of Rambo Stadium. According to the rate of 90 season tickets for the owner every year (due to the death of the owner, etc.). ), fans at the end of the team may have to wait 955 years to get season tickets.

Cheese hats representing packers' fans are also well known. This design was inspired by 1987, but not on the football field-Ralph Bruno, a packer fan, saw an offensive slogan "Cheesehead" of the White Sox fans on the sidelines while watching the major league baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox, and then he came up with the idea of representing the image of the fans. Cheese is a symbolic industry in Wisconsin, so this design was quickly recognized by packers' fans after its birth, and it was basically finalized after 1994. The Packers' Team is the only public-owned team in the major professional sports leagues in North America. Generally speaking, professional sports teams are owned by individuals, partners or companies, but packaging teams have no main owners since their inception. Although nominally owned by the company's shareholders, the shareholders' purchase of the shares of the packers is a free support for the operation of the team, because the shares of the packers will not be distributed and distributed, and the shareholders will not enjoy any management power except voting on some issues at the annual general meeting.

The establishment of "Green Bay Packers Co., Ltd." formally established the co-ownership and non-profit operation of the packaging team. Since then, the NFL has issued a special regulation requiring that the total number of partners who own an NFL team should not exceed 24, and one of them must hold more than 30% of the shares. However, due to the establishment of the packers' team much earlier than this provision, according to the grandfather clause principle, packers are still owned by the public, which is the only exception in the NFL.

In history, the packaging team issued stock financing five times. The first financing took place at 1923. Since then, in order to prevent the team from moving out of Green Bay due to lack of financial resources, the second and third financing were conducted at 1935 and 1950 respectively. In the third financing, each shareholder is limited to subscribe for 200 shares, and most of the subscribers are local residents of Green Bay. After that, the fourth and fifth financing were conducted in 1997 and 20 12 respectively.

The daily operation of the packaging team is presided over by an executive committee composed of seven people, among whom only the team chairman is paid and others work for free. A 45-member board of directors is responsible for selecting members of the Executive Committee. The team chairman enjoys the same status as other NFL team owners, and usually represents the packers in the meetings attended by all team owners in the league. During the home game of Rambo Stadium, many packing unions jumped into the stands near the end zone to celebrate with the fans shortly after scoring a touchdown. This unique way of celebrating is called Rambo Jump. 1993 season, when the packers beat the Los Angeles Raiders at home, guard Leroy Butler started this celebration after scoring a touchdown. Since then, although the NFL has issued regulations prohibiting players from celebrating excessively after scoring a touchdown, according to the principle of grandfather clause, Rambo Leap is allowed to be kept because it will not obviously disturb the game progress. In August, 2004 1, 2065438, the packers erected a statue outside the stadium to commemorate this celebration.

However, sometimes visiting team players imitate this way of celebration in a provocative way. For example, in the Cincinnati Tigers' 3 1-24 victory over the Packers in 2009, Chad Ochochenko, a foreign catcher of the Tigers, posted a message to imitate this action before the game. When he finished the touchdown in the third quarter of the game, he specially found some friends who had arranged in the stands in advance and fulfilled his promise.