Yesterday we looked at Art Rooney and the Pittsburgh Steelers in advance of their upcoming appearance in the Super Bowl. The Steelers will not be the only team playing in the big game. Their opponent will be the Green Bay Packers. The Packers history is a couple decades longer then that of the Steelers. Earl "Curly" Lambeau founded the Packers as semi-pro team in 1915. The played as independents through the 1920 season. They then joined a league called the American Pro Football Association.
On January 28, 1922 the league chose as its new name the National Football League. They also voted to allow the Decatur, Ilinois Club permission to move to Chicago. The club changed its name from the "Staleys" to the "Bears". The Bears have enjoyed a long rivaly with the club that Curly Lambeau founded.
When the team was incorporated in 1923 it was set up as a non-profit, that today has over 110,000 stockholders. Lambeau played for the team until 1929 and was the head coach until 1949. He died of a heart attack in 1965, three months later City Stadium was renamed Lambeau Field. No game at Lambeau Field has been a non sellout since 1960. Fifty years of sellouts is a very impressive record for a team based in a city of just over 102,000 people.
The Super Bowl in Dallas should be a great game, hopefully with lots of history to be seen in this blog in the years to come. Tomorrow we will look at International Hockey with an empasis on Olympic Hockey.
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