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(as of June 5, 2005). Grapes of Wrath also refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation: "And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God" (14:19). To poke fun at this nickname, they wear foam triangles made to look like cheese on their heads, which further re-enforces the "cheesehead" designation. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe, where she describes God as "trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored". Packers fans are commonly known as "cheeseheads," presumably because Wisconsin is known for its cheese production. When Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1962), the Swedish Academy called the book "an epic chronicle". The Packers also draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFL's Monday Night Football telecasts. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940; it is frequently read in high school and college literature classes.

For this reason, it is not unusual for fans to designate a recipient of their season tickets in their wills. Steinbeck wrote this book, along with Of Mice and Men, in what is now Monte Sereno, California, in the home at 16250 Greenwood Lane. That is, someone who entered their name on the waiting list for Packers season tickets in 1970 is just now coming to the top of the list in 2004. At the conclusion of the novel the family shows resoluteness in the face of defeat. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. En route to California the grandparents die; on their arrival the surviving members of the family are involved in strikes that turn violent, and Tom, the son, kills a man. No matter how good or poor the season, Lambeau Field has been a sellout every game for years; the Packers have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports. He follows the Joad family, 'Okie' farmers driven from their land by drought and forced to endure the hardships of life as agricultural workers.

In recent decades, the Packers have found themselves with an extremely dedicated fan base. Set in the Great Depression, this popular proletarian novel tells the story of migrant workers (or sharecroppers) leaving the Dust Bowl, and moving on. The Super Bowl trophy was ultimately named the Vince Lombardi Trophy in recognition of his and his team's accomplishment. The Grapes of Wrath is a work of fiction published by John Steinbeck in 1939, in which descriptive, narrative, and philosophical passages succeed one another. Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls. In 1995 Bruce Springsteen released an album entitled The Ghost of Tom Joad (http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/TheGhostOfTomJoad.html), featuring a song of the same name, later covered by Rage Against The Machine. Coach Vince Lombardi took over a last-place team and built it into a juggernaut, winning five league championships over a seven-year span. He described the film in a column:.

The Green Bay Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time. Woody Guthrie wrote The Ballad of Tom Joad the night he saw the film. They are also the only professional football team to win three straight titles, which they did twice (1929, 1930, 1931, and 1965, 1966, 1967). This film has subsequently been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Packers have won more league championships (twelve, including three Super Bowls) than any other professional football team. Hansen for Best Sound Recording, and Nunnally Johnson for Best Screenplay Writing. The balance of the committee is sitting gratis. Simpson for Best Film Editing, Edmund H.

The president is the only officer who receives compensation. Other nominations were for Best Picture, Henry Fonda for Best Actor, Robert L. 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. John Ford won the Academy Award for Directing, as did Jane Darwell for Best Supporting Actress. As a means of running the corporation, a board of directors is elected by the stockholders. Zanuck in 1940. 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. A film version was produced by Darryl F.

Presently, 111,507 people (representing 4,748,910 shares) can lay claim to a franchise ownership interest. 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. Priced at $200 per share, fans bought 120,010 shares during the 17-week sale, which ended March 16, 1998. It added 105,989 new shareholders and raised more than $24 million, monies which were utilized for the Lambeau Field redevelopment project. Another stock sale occurred late in 1997 and early in 1998.

In 1956, area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, which would later be called Lambeau Field. In 1950, the Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team. The beneficiary was changed from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation on the basis of a shareholder vote at the November 1997 meeting. 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 that the club remained in Green Bay and that there could never be any financial enhancement for the shareholder.

The Packers did not move their entire home schedule to Green Bay until 1995. However, the Packers have long had a large following throughout the state of Wisconsin; in fact, for decades, the Packers played several home games each year in Milwaukee. By comparison, the typical NFL football city must be populated in the millions to support a team. The typical scenario is a team owned by one person; 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 shares to buy and sell and 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. This color scheme leads to the common Packers nickname, "The Green and Gold". The colors where later changed to the current green and gold/yellow. Lambeau, a Notre Dame alum, chose the teams' colors of blue and gold/yellow from his alma mater.

Although the Indian Packing Company only supported the team through part of its first season, the Green Bay football club has always been known as the Packers. Curly Lambeau, the team's founder, solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919. The Green Bay Packers are a National Football League team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Note: Basketball teams from Chicago and Anderson once used the name Packers as well.. Tony Bennett. Vince Workman. Chris Jacke.

John Brockington. Sterling Sharpe. Eugene Robinson. Bryce Paup.

Steve McMichael. Don Majkowski. Dorsey Levens. Mark Lee.

Jerry Kramer (author of Instant Replay). Sean Jones. Tim Harris. Antonio Freeman.

Lynn Dickey. Mark Chmura. Chuck Cecil. LeRoy Butler.

Robert Brooks. Edgar Bennett. 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.

Reggie White #92 (While Reggie White's jersey has been retired since 1999, his number will be retired at halftime ceremonies during the September 18, 2005 game, commemorating his untimely death on December 26, 2004.) [1] (http://www.packers.com/news/releases/2005/05/31/1/). Ray Nitschke #66. Bart Starr #15. Don Hutson #14.

Tony Canadeo #3. Zac Woodfin. Walt Williams. Corey Williams.

Chaz Williams. Will Witticker. Chris White. Scott Wells.

Donnell Washington. Javon Walker. Marviel Underwood. R-Kal Truluk.

Leigh Torrence. Andrae Thurman. Ray Thompson. Joey Thomas.

Mark Tauscher. Ben Steele. Chris Samp. Grey Ruegamer.

Mark Roman. Aaron Rodgers. Chris Robertson. Brady Poppinga.

Kenny Peterson. JT O'Sulivan. Matt O'Dwyer. Hannibal Navies.

Craig Nall. Terrence Murphey. Michael Montgomery. sean McHugh.

David Martin. Roy Manning. Nick Luchey. Ryan Longwell.

Earl Little. AJ Lindsay. Paris Lenon. James Lee.

Vonta Leach. Adrian Klemm. Aaron Kampman. Chris Johnson.

Cullen Jenkins. Grady Jackson. Cletidus Hunt. Jason Horton.

Atlas Herrion. William Henderson. Mike Hawkins. Al Harris.

Ahman Green. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila. Arturo Freeman. Todd Franz.

Bubba Franks. Mike Flanagan. Tony Fisher. Robert Furguson.

Brett Favre. Donald Driver. Na'il Diggs. Patrick Dendy.

Rob Davis. Najeh Davenport. Brenan Curtan. Garrett Cross.

Junius Coston. Nick Collins. Colin Cole. Chad Clifton.

Antonio Chatman. Ahmad Carroll. Kurt Campbell. Vince Butler.

Craig Bragg. Bryce Benekos. Brad Bedell. kevin Barry.

Nick Barnett. Brooks Barnard. Willie Wood. Emlen Tunnell.

Jim Taylor. Jan Stenerud. Bart Starr. Jim Ringo.

Ray Nitschke. Mike Michalske. John (Blood) McNally. Vince Lombardi.

James Lofton. Earl (Curly) Lambeau. Walt Kiesling. Henry Jordan.

Don Hutson. Cal Hubbard. Paul Hornung. Clarke Hinkle.

Arnie Herber. Ted Hendricks. Forrest Gregg. Len Ford.

Willie Davis. Tony Canadeo. Herb Adderly.