Green Bay Packers

1=The NFL was originally named the American Professional Football Association (APFA) from 1920-1922.. The Windows ping utility returns the same information as the Unix implementations, albeit with different formatting. Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties. On a system with a BSD Unix lineage, ping traditionally only answers whether a host is ”alive” or not, but modern systems may provide a more System V–like output as shown above. Interceptions: Al Harris, 3 Interceptions. The above sample is typical of ping on an operating system with a UNIX System V lineage. Sacks: Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, 8.0 Sacks. Below is a sample output where the wikipedia.com server is "pinged":.

Tackles: Nick Barnett, 91 Tackles. The output of ping, and its cousins, generally consists of the packet size used, the host queried, the ICMP sequence number, the time to live, and the round-trip delay time, with all times given in milliseconds, and times below 10 milliseconds often having low accuracy. Punt Return Yards: Antonio Chatman, 381 Yards. The syntax is "ping -x <input>". Kickoff Return Yards: Ahmad Carroll, 390 Yards. The following switches are available to expand Ping's usefulness. Points: Ryan Longwell, 90 points. The syntax is "ping -x <input>".

Receiving Touchdowns: Donald Driver, 5 TD. The following switches are available to expand Ping's usefulness. Receiving Yards: Donald Driver, 1221 Yards. Internet worms such as Welchia flooded the Internet with ping requests as they sought to locate new hosts to infect, causing problems to routers across the Internet. Rushing Touchdowns: Samkon Gado, 6 TD. The usefulness of ping in assisting the "diagnosis" of Internet connectivity issues was impaired from late in 2003, when a number of Internet Service Providers filtered out ICMP Type 8 (echo request) messages at their network boundaries. Rushing Yards: Samkon Gado, 582 Yards. Mills provided a backronym, "Packet Internet Grouper (Groper)", also by other people "Packed Internet Gopher", after the small rodents ).

QB Rating: Brett Favre, 70.9. (Later David L. Passing Touchdowns Brett Favre 20 TD. He named it after the pulses of sound made by a sonar, since its operation is analogous to active sonar in submarines, in which an operator issues a pulse of energy (a network packet) at the target, which then bounces from the target and is received by the operator. Passing Yards Brett Favre 3881 Yards. Mike Muuss wrote the program in December, 1983, as a tool to troubleshoot odd behavior on an IP network. As a result of their dismal season, the Packers ended up with the fifth overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, which is to be held April 29-30 in New York City. .

This included four straight playoff appearances and three straight NFC North division titles, both of which came to an end in 2005. It works by sending ICMP “echo request” packets to the target host and listening for replies (ICMP “echo response” packets). Sherman compiled records of 9-7, 12-4, 12-4, 10-6, 10-6 and 4-12. Ping provides estimates of the round-trip time and packet loss rate between hosts. One day after the conclusion of the regular season, Packers General Manager Ted Thompson announced the firing of head coach Mike Sherman, who'd enjoyed six years at the helm of the team. It provides a basic test of whether a particular host is operating properly and is reachable on the network from the testing host. Also hampered by injuries yet remaining in the line-up are linebacker Na'il Diggs and Favre, who has suffered repeated ailments to his throwing hand. Ping is the name of a computer network tool used on TCP/IP networks (such as the Internet).

For example, wide receiver Javon Walker and running backs Ahman Green, Najeh Davenport, and Samkon Gado have all suffered major injuries. -W <timeout> - Time to wait for a response, in seconds. The team's offensive roster has been devastated by injuries, including notable 2005 starters or backups. -w <deadline> - Specify a timeout, in seconds, before ping exits regardless of how many packets have been sent or received. The Packers' November 27 loss to the Eagles assured the Packers their first losing season since 1991 and Brett Favre's first losing season in his career. -V - Show version and exit. The Packers finished their season at 4-12, in last place in the NFC North division (one game behind the third-place Detroit Lions). -v - Verbose output.

[3]. -U - Print full user-to-user latency (the old behaviour). Among the suggestions were "Pickers" refering to vegetable farmers, and "Six-Packers" in reference to the famous Wisconsin brewing industry. -M <hint> - Select Path MTU Discovery strategy. Due to the fact that "Packer" refers to "meat-packing," the animal rights organization PETA asked the team in in 2000 to change its name to a more "peaceful" name. -T <timestamp option> - Set special IP timestamp options. This color scheme yields the common Packers nickname, "The Green and Gold". -t <ttl> - Set the IP Time to Live.

In 1959, new head coach Vince Lombardi changed the colors to the current hunter green and athletic gold/yellow (navy blue was kept as a secondary color, but it was not actually used and quietly was dropped from the team colors list on all official materials shortly thereafter). -S <sndbuf> - Set socket sndbuf. In the 1930s, the Packers briefly experimented with green and gold, although they always returned to the traditional navy. -s <packetsize> - Specifies the number of data bytes to be sent. Lambeau, a Notre Dame alumnus, chose the team's colors of blue and gold/yellow from his alma mater. -r - Bypass the normal routing tables and send directly to a host on an attached interface. Acme continued its support of Lambeau's team, and in its first season in the NFL the team wore jerseys with the words "ACME PACKERS" emblazoned on the chest. -R - Record route.

In 1920, the Indian Packing Company was purchased by the Acme Packing Company. -q - Quiet output. These never were official nicknames, although Lambeau did consider replacing "Packers" with "Blues" in the 1920s. -Q <tos> - Set Quality of Service -related bits in ICMP datagrams. In the early days, the Packers also were referred to as the "Bays" and the "Blues" (and even occasionally as "the Big Bay Blues"). -p <pattern> - You may specify up to 16 pad bytes to fill out the packet you send. The new Green Bay team was referred to as "the Indians" in one of the earliest newspaper articles about the new squad, but by the time they played their first game they had adopted the name "Packers.". -n - Numeric output only.

He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor (this is similar to what would happen the following year with the Decatur Staleys, who would become the Chicago Bears). -L - Suppress loopback of multicast packets. Curly Lambeau, the team's founder, solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. -l <preload> - If preload is specified, ping sends that many packets not waiting for reply. To poke fun at this nickname, they wear foam triangles made to look like cheese on their heads, which further reinforces the "cheesehead" designation. -I <interface address> - Set source address to specified interface address. Packer fans are commonly known as "cheeseheads," a derogatory nickname for people from Wisconsin, as the state is known for its cheese production among a variety of other items. -i <interval> - Wait interval seconds between sending each packet.

The Packers also draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFL's Monday Night Football telecasts. -f - Flood ping. For this reason, it is not unusual for fans to designate a recipient of their season tickets in their wills. -F <flow label> - Allocate and set 20 bit flow label on echo request packets. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. -d - Set the SO_DEBUG option on the socket being used. The Packers have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports. -c <count> - Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST packets.

The Packers' fan base is notoriously dedicated: No matter how the team performs, Lambeau Field has been sold out every game since 1960. -B - Do not allow ping to change source address of probes. The Super Bowl trophy was ultimately named the Vince Lombardi Trophy in recognition of his and his team's accomplishment. -b - Allow pinging a broadcast address. Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls. -A - Adaptive ping. Coach Vince Lombardi took over a last-place team and built it into a juggernaut, winning five league championships over a seven-year span. -a - Audible ping.

The Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time. -w <timeout> - Timeout in milliseconds to wait for each reply. They are also the only American professional football team to win three straight titles, which they did twice (1929-1931 and 1965-67). -k <host-list> - Strict source route along host-list. The Packers have won more league championships (12, including three Super Bowls) than any other American professional football team. -j <host-list> - Loose source route along host-list. The balance of the committee is sitting "gratis.". -s <count> - Timestamp for count hops.

The president is the only officer who receives compensation. -r <count> - Record route for count hops. The board of directors in turn elect a seven-member Executive Committee (officers) of the corporation, consisting of a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and three members-at-large. -v <TOS> - Type Of Service. As a means of running the corporation, a board of directors is elected by the stockholders. -i <TTL> - Time To Live. No shareholder is allowed to own more than 200,000 shares, a safeguard to ensure that no one individual is able to assume control of the club. -f - Set Don't Fragment flag in packet.

Shares of stock include voting rights, but the redemption price is minimal, no dividends are ever paid, the stock cannot appreciate in value, and there are no season ticket privileges associated with stock ownership. -l <size> - Send buffer size. As of June 8, 2005, 111,921 people (representing 4,749,925 shares) can lay claim to a franchise ownership interest. -n <count> - Number of echo requests to send. Priced at $200 per share, fans bought 120,010 shares during the 17-week sale, which ended March 16, 1998. -a - Resolve addresses to hostnames. It added 105,989 new shareholders and raised more than $24 million, money utilized for the Lambeau Field redevelopment project. -t - Ping the specifed host until interrupted.

Another stock sale occurred late in 1997 and early in 1998. In 1956, area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, which in 1963 became Lambeau Field. In 1950, the Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation.

Based on the original "Articles of Incorporation for the (then) Green Bay Football Corporation" put into place in 1923, if the Packers franchise was sold, after the payment of all expenses, any remaining monies would go to the Sullivan-Wallen Post of the American Legion in order to build "a proper soldier's memorial." This stipulation was enacted to ensure the club remained in Green Bay and that there could never be any financial enhancement for the shareholders. The Packers did not move their entire home schedule to Green Bay until 1995. However, the Packers have long had a large following throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest; in fact, for decades, the Packers played four (one pre-season, three regular-season) home games each year in Milwaukee. By comparison, the typical NFL football city usually is populated in the millions.

Typically, a team is owned by one person, partnership, or corporate entity; thus, a "team owner." It has been speculated that this is one of the reasons the Green Bay Packers have never been moved from the city of Green Bay, a city of just over 100,000 people. The Packers are now the only publicly owned company with a board of directors in American professional sports. The financial backers, known as the "Hungry Five," formed the Green Bay Football Corporation. The Packers found new backers the next year and regained the franchise.

Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was lost the same year. The Packers became a professional franchise in 1921. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company.

The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. . [2]. Currently, a total of 4,749,925 shares are owned by 111,921 stockholders - none of whom receives any dividend.

The Packers are currently the only publicly owned major league level professional sports team in the United States (although other teams, such as the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Cubs, and the New York Rangers are directly owned by publicly traded companies). The team also holds the distinction of winning the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games that were held before the AFL-NFL Merger, later referred to as Super Bowl I and II. The team currently holds the record for the most NFL league championships with 12: nine NFL Championships prior to the Super Bowl era, Super Bowl I, Super Bowl II, and Super Bowl XXXI. Founded in 1919, the Packers joined the NFL in 1921 during the league's second season.

Green Bay is by far the smallest media market to be the home of a North American major professional sports league (though their fanbase includes Milwaukee, the rest of Wisconsin, and beyond). The Packers are the last remaining example of the "small town teams" that comprised a majority of the NFL during the 1920s. The team is sometimes affectionately referred to as simply 'The Pack'. They currently belong to the Northern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Split games between Milwaukee and Green Bay (1933-1994). Independent (1919-1920)
National Football League (1921-present). Note: Basketball teams from Chicago and Anderson once used the name Packers as well..

Brandon Johnson - Strength & conditioning assistant. Mark Lovat - Strength & conditioning assistant. Rock Gullickson - Strength & conditioning. Brad Miller - Special teams assistant.

Mike Stock - Special teams coordinator. Shawn Slocum - Defensive assistant. Lionel Washington - Defensive nickel package. Carl Hairston - Defensive ends.

Robert Nunn - Defensive tackles. Winston Moss - Linebackers. Kurt Schottenheimer - Defensive backs. Bob Sanders - Defensive coordinator.

Ben McAdoo - Tight ends. Jimmy Robinson - Wide receivers. Ty Knott - Offensive quality control. James Campen - Offensive line assistant.

Edgar Bennett - Running backs. Joe Philbin - Offensive line. Tom Clements - Quarterbacks. Jeff Jagodzinski - Offensive coordinator.

Mike McCarthy. 2006 To be announced (5th overall pick). 2005 Aaron Rodgers. 2004 Ahmad Carroll.

2003 Nick Barnett. 2002 Javon Walker. 2001 Jamal Reynolds. 2000 Bubba Franks.

1999 Antuan Edwards. 1998 Vonnie Holliday. 1997 Ross Verba. 1996 John Michels.

1995 Craig Newsome. 1994 Aaron Taylor. 1993 Wayne Simmons and George Teague. 1992 Terrell Buckley.

1991 Vinnie Clark. 1990 Tony Bennett and Darrell Thompson. 1989 Tony Mandarich. 1988 Sterling Sharpe.

1987 Brent Fullwood. 1986 Traded away. 1985 Ken Ruettgers. 1984 Alphonso Carreker.

1983 Tim Lewis. 1982 Ron Hallstrom. 1981 Rich Campbell. 1980 Bruce Clark and George Cumby.

1979 Eddie Lee Ivory. 1978 James Lofton and John Anderson. 1977 Mike Butler and Morris Brown. 1976 Mark Koncar.

1975 Traded away. 1974 Barty Smith. 1973 Barry Smith. 1972 Willie Buchanon and Jerry Tagge.

1971 John Brockington. 1970 Mike McCoy and Rich McGeorge. 1969 Rich Moore. 1968 Fred Carr and Bill Lueck.

1967 Bob Hyland and Don Horn. 1966 Jim Grabowski and Gale Gillingham. 1965 Donny Anderson and Larry Elkins. 1964 Lloyd Voss.

1963 Dave Robinson. 1962 Earl Gros. 1961 Herb Adderly. 1960 Tom Moore.

1959 Randy Duncan. 1958 Dan Currie. 1957 Paul Hornung and Ron Kramer. 1956 Jack Losch.

1955 Tom Bettis. 1954 Art Hunter and Veryl Switzer. 1953 Al Carmichael. 1952 Babe Parilli.

1951 Bob Gain. 1950 Clayton Tonnemaker. 1949 Stan Heath. 1948 Earl "Jug" Girard.

1947 Ernie Case. 1946 Johnny Strzyalski. 1945 Walt Schlinkman. 1944 Merv Pregulman.

1943 Dick Wildung. 1942 Urban Odson. 1941 George Paskvan. 1940 Hal Van Every.

1939 Larry Buhler. 1938 Cecil Isbell. 1937 Ed Jankowski. 1936 Russ Letlow.

Vince Workman - RB. Mike Wahle - G. Fred "Fuzzy" Thurston - G. Darren Sharper - S.

Sterling Sharpe - WR. Ken Ruettgers - OL. Eugene Robinson - S. Marco Rivera - G.

Andre Rison - WR. Bryce Paup - LB. Brian Noble - LB. Steve McMichael - DT.

Max McGee - WR. Larry McCarren - C. Tony Mandarich - T (bust). Don Majkowski - QB.

Dorsey Levens - RB. Mark Lee - CB. Jerry Kramer - G, K (author of Instant Replay). Sean Jones - DE.

Ezra Johnson - DT. Keith Jackson - TE. Chris Jacke - K. Cecil Isbell - QB.

Desmond Howard - WR/KR. Johnny Holland - LB. Craig Hentrich - P. Tim Harris - LB.

Brent Fullwood - RB. Antonio Freeman - WR. Boyd Dowler - WR. Santana Dotson - DT.

Lynn Dickey - QB. Mark Chmura - TE. Chuck Cecil - S. LeRoy Butler - S.

Terrell Buckley - CB. Mark Brunell - QB. "Gravedigger"). Gilbert Brown - DT (a.k.a.

Robert Brooks - WR. John Brockington - RB. Tony Bennett - LB. Edgar Bennett - RB.

John Anderson - LB. Reggie White #92. Ray Nitschke #66. Bart Starr #15.

Don Hutson #14. Tony Canadeo #3. 24 Willie Wood. 92 Reggie White.

Emlen Tunnell. 31 Jim Taylor. 3 Jan Stenerud. 15 Bart Starr.

51 Jim Ringo. 66 Ray Nitschke. 2 Mike Michalske. 24 Johnny (Blood) McNally.

Vince Lombardi. 80 James Lofton. 20 Earl (Curly) Lambeau. 2 Walt Kiesling.

75 Henry Jordan. 14 Don Hutson. 36 Cal Hubbard. 5 Paul Hornung.

30 Clarke Hinkle. 38 Arnie Herber. 83 Ted Hendricks. 75 Forrest Gregg.

Len Ford. 87 Willie Davis. 3 Tony Canadeo. 26 Herb Adderly.

Milwaukee County Stadium (1953-1994). Marquette Stadium (1952). Wisconsin State Fair Park (1934-1951). Borchert Field (1933-1935).

Lambeau Field (1957-present). City Stadium (Green Bay) (1925-1956). Bellevue Park (1923-1924). Hagemeister Park (1919-1922).

NFC North: 2002, 2003, 2004. NFC Central: 1972, 1995, 1996, 1997. NFL Central: 1967. NFL West: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944.

NFC: 1996, 1997. NFL Western: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967. Super Bowl Championships (1)
1996 (XXXI). AFL-NFL Super Bowl Championships (2)
1966 (I), 1967 (II).

NFL Championships (11)
1929, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1939, 1944, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967. Green Bay Packers (1919-present). NFC North (2002-present). NFC Central (1970-2001).

National Football Conference (1970-present)