Tien sent me this list from themilwuakeechannel:

1. The Packers are the last remaining publicly-owned team. None of its 111,921 stockholders receive a profit.

2. The Packers play in major sports’ smallest TV market — No. 68.

3. The Packers have won a record 12 NFL titles.

4. The Packers were the first NFL team to open a Hall of Fame and museum in 1967.

5. Only two other professional sports venues have been in continuous use longer than Lambeau Field, which opened in 1957 –Boston’s Fenway Park and Chicago’s Wrigley Field.

6. Only 10 professional sports teams have played in the same city and used the same nickname longer than the Packers (nine in baseball, one in hockey).

7. The Packers have season ticketholders from all 50 states.

8. The Packers have a season ticket waiting list of more than 67,000 names.

9. The Packers were briefly kicked out of the NFL in 1922 for using illegal players (two active Notre Dame players). The team was reinstated later that year.

10. The Packers were named for their first owner, the Acme Packing Company.

11. The Packers were the first professional team to have a mascot in 1919 — a dog named Olive, who liked to eat Durkee olives.

12. Brett Favre’s first NFL completion was to… Brett Favre. He caught his own deflected pass for a loss of 7 yards against the Buccaneers in 1992.

I actually only knew 3 or 4 of them. I also just read that antlers are now prohibited from Lambeau Field. Man, what a bunch of fascists! Antlers? Seriously? Can just imagine the banned weapons list: No guns, knives, fireworks, explosives, arrows, ANTLERS. Packalope is sad!

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