Green Bay Packers

Note: Basketball teams from Chicago and Anderson once used the name Packers as well.

City Green Bay, Wisconsin
Other nicknames The Pack
Team colors Dark Green, Gold, and White
Head Coach Mike McCarthy
Owner A public company
General manager Ted Thompson
Fight song Go! You Packers! Go!
Mascot {{{mascot}}}
Local radio
Flagship stations: WTMJ (620 AM) (Milwaukee); WNFL (1440 AM) and WIXX (101.1 FM) (Green Bay)
Announcers: Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren
League/Conference affiliations

Independent (1919-1920)
National Football League (1921-present)

  • Western Division (1933-1949)
  • National Conference (1950-1952)
  • Western Conference (1953-1969)
    • Central Division (1967-1969)
  • National Football Conference (1970-present)
    • NFC Central (1970-2001)
    • NFC North (2002-present)
Team history
  • Green Bay Packers (1919-present)
League titles
League Championships (14)
  • NFL Championships (11)
    1929, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1939, 1944, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967
  • AFL-NFL Super Bowl Championships (2)
    1966 (I), 1967 (II)
  • Super Bowl Championships (1)
    1996 (XXXI)
Conference Championships (8)
  • NFL Western: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967
  • NFC: 1996, 1997
Division Championships (12)
  • NFL West: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944
  • NFL Central: 1967
  • NFC Central: 1972, 1995, 1996, 1997
  • NFC North: 2002, 2003, 2004
Home fields
  • Hagemeister Park (1919-1922)
  • Bellevue Park (1923-1924)
  • City Stadium (Green Bay) (1925-1956)
  • Lambeau Field (1957-present)

Split games between Milwaukee and Green Bay (1933-1994)

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

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They currently belong to the Northern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The team is sometimes affectionately referred to as simply 'The Pack'.

The Packers are the last remaining example of the "small town teams" that comprised a majority of the NFL during the 1920s. 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).

Founded in 1919, the Packers joined the NFL in 1921 during the league's second season. 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. 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 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). Currently, a total of 4,749,925 shares are owned by 111,921 stockholders - none of whom receives any dividend. [2]

Franchise history

The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor.

The Packers became a professional franchise in 1921. Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was lost the same year. The Packers found new backers the next year and regained the franchise. The financial backers, known as the "Hungry Five," formed the Green Bay Football Corporation.

The Packers are now the only publicly owned company with a board of directors in American professional sports. 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. By comparison, the typical NFL football city usually is populated in the millions. 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. The Packers did not move their entire home schedule to Green Bay until 1995.

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. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation.

In 1950, the Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team. In 1956, area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, which in 1963 became Lambeau Field.

Another stock sale occurred late in 1997 and early in 1998. It added 105,989 new shareholders and raised more than $24 million, money utilized for the Lambeau Field redevelopment project. Priced at $200 per share, fans bought 120,010 shares during the 17-week sale, which ended March 16, 1998. As of June 8, 2005, 111,921 people (representing 4,749,925 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. 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. As a means of running the corporation, a board of directors is elected by the stockholders. 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. The president is the only officer who receives compensation. The balance of the committee is sitting "gratis."

The Packers have won more league championships (12, including three Super Bowls) than any other American professional football team. They are also the only American professional football team to win three straight titles, which they did twice (1929-1931 and 1965-67).

The Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time. Coach Vince Lombardi took over a last-place team and built it into a juggernaut, winning five league championships over a seven-year span. Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls. The Super Bowl trophy was ultimately named the Vince Lombardi Trophy in recognition of his and his team's accomplishment.

The Packers' fan base is notoriously dedicated: No matter how the team performs, Lambeau Field has been sold out every game since 1960. The Packers have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. For this reason, it is not unusual for fans to designate a recipient of their season tickets in their wills.

The Packers also draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFL's Monday Night Football telecasts.

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. To poke fun at this nickname, they wear foam triangles made to look like cheese on their heads, which further reinforces the "cheesehead" designation.

Nickname and uniforms

Curly Lambeau, the team's founder, solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. 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). 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."

In the early days, the Packers also were referred to as the "Bays" and the "Blues" (and even occasionally as "the Big Bay Blues"). These never were official nicknames, although Lambeau did consider replacing "Packers" with "Blues" in the 1920s.

In 1920, the Indian Packing Company was purchased by the Acme Packing Company. 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.

Lambeau, a Notre Dame alumnus, chose the team's colors of blue and gold/yellow from his alma mater. In the 1930s, the Packers briefly experimented with green and gold, although they always returned to the traditional navy.

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). This color scheme yields the common Packers nickname, "The Green and Gold".

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. Among the suggestions were "Pickers" refering to vegetable farmers, and "Six-Packers" in reference to the famous Wisconsin brewing industry. [3]

2005 season

The Packers finished their season at 4-12, in last place in the NFC North division (one game behind the third-place Detroit Lions). 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. The team's offensive roster has been devastated by injuries, including notable 2005 starters or backups. For example, wide receiver Javon Walker and running backs Ahman Green, Najeh Davenport, and Samkon Gado have all suffered major injuries. 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. 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. Sherman compiled records of 9-7, 12-4, 12-4, 10-6, 10-6 and 4-12. This included four straight playoff appearances and three straight NFC North division titles, both of which came to an end in 2005. 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.

2005 Team Leaders

Passing Yards Brett Favre 3881 Yards

Passing Touchdowns Brett Favre 20 TD

QB Rating: Brett Favre, 70.9

Rushing Yards: Samkon Gado, 582 Yards

Rushing Touchdowns: Samkon Gado, 6 TD

Receiving Yards: Donald Driver, 1221 Yards

Receiving Touchdowns: Donald Driver, 5 TD

Points: Ryan Longwell, 90 points

Kickoff Return Yards: Ahmad Carroll, 390 Yards

Punt Return Yards: Antonio Chatman, 381 Yards

Tackles: Nick Barnett, 91 Tackles

Sacks: Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, 8.0 Sacks

Interceptions: Al Harris, 3 Interceptions

Season-by-season records

Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties

1=The NFL was originally named the American Professional Football Association (APFA) from 1920-1922.

2=The NFL did not hold playoff games until 1932. The team that finished with the best regular-season record was named the league champion.

^At the end of the 2005 NFL season, the Packers All-Time Record (since 1921) is 639-506-36 (including playoffs).

Players of note

Current players

Pro Football Hall of Famers

In addition, the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame has honored 133 players, coaches and executives.

Retired numbers

Not to be forgotten

First round draft picks

2005 NFL Draft picks

Head coaches

Current Coaching Staff

Head Coach

Offensive Coaches

Defensive Coaches

Special Teams Coaches

Conditioning Coaches


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Tackles: Nick Barnett, 91 Tackles. In the field of the philosophy of education, progressive education as championed by John Dewey has had a profound impact on educational practices in the United States in the twentieth century. Punt Return Yards: Antonio Chatman, 381 Yards. The political philosophies of Confucius, Kautilya, Sun Tzu, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Nozick, and John Rawls have shaped and been used to justify governments and their actions. Kickoff Return Yards: Ahmad Carroll, 390 Yards. The most obvious applications are those in ethics – applied ethics in particular – and in political philosophy. Points: Ryan Longwell, 90 points. Though often seen as a wholly abstract field, philosophy is not without practical applications.

Receiving Touchdowns: Donald Driver, 5 TD. The western philosophical tradition began with the Greeks, while that of Asia originated, largely, in China and the Indian subcontinent. Receiving Yards: Donald Driver, 1221 Yards. At least since the publication of Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy the most prominent division of philosophy has been between the philosophies of the "West" and the "East". Rushing Touchdowns: Samkon Gado, 6 TD. Islamic civilization also produced many philosophical geniuses such as, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rushd (Averroës), and Al-Ghazali (see Islamic philosophy). Rushing Yards: Samkon Gado, 582 Yards. In Persia, Zarathustra's teachings which were a new basis for the Iranian branch of Indo-Iranian philosophy appeared around 900 BC.

QB Rating: Brett Favre, 70.9. In India, major philosophical texts include the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, from circa 500 BCE (see Hindu philosophy). Passing Touchdowns Brett Favre 20 TD. In China, the Tao Te Ching of Laozi and the Analects of Confucius both appeared around 600 BCE, about the same time as the Greek pre-Socratics were writing. Passing Yards Brett Favre 3881 Yards. Philosophical thinking also developed elsewhere, and can be seen in many ancient texts. 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. Eastern philosophy follows the broad traditions that originated or were popular in India, Persia, the Middle East, and China.

This included four straight playoff appearances and three straight NFC North division titles, both of which came to an end in 2005. The question of which specific languages can be considered essential to philosophizing is a theme in the works of many recent philosophers. Sherman compiled records of 9-7, 12-4, 12-4, 10-6, 10-6 and 4-12. Languages can either be a barrier or a vehicle for ideas. 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. On account of the widespread emphasis on western philosophy as a reference point, the study, preservation and dissemination of valuable but not widely known non-western philosophical works faces many obstacles. 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. Other philosophical traditions, such as African, are rarely considered by foreign academia.

For example, wide receiver Javon Walker and running backs Ahman Green, Najeh Davenport, and Samkon Gado have all suffered major injuries. The subject matter and dialogues of each can be studied using methods derived from the others, and there have been significant commonalities and exchanges between them. The team's offensive roster has been devastated by injuries, including notable 2005 starters or backups. The differences between traditions are often based on their favored historical philosophers, or emphases on ideas, styles or language of writing. 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. Russian, Jewish, Islamic and recently Latin American philosophical traditions have contributed to, or been derivative of western philosophy, yet retain a distinctive identity. The Packers finished their season at 4-12, in last place in the NFC North division (one game behind the third-place Detroit Lions). Eastern and Middle Eastern philosophical traditions have influenced western philosophers.

[3]. Members of many societies have considered philosophical questions and built philosophic traditions based upon each other's works. Among the suggestions were "Pickers" refering to vegetable farmers, and "Six-Packers" in reference to the famous Wisconsin brewing industry. But we are embedded in the world. 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. To have faith in the reality of the "external world", presupposes a subject which is worldless. This color scheme yields the common Packers nickname, "The Green and Gold". This is strikingly similar to themes found in 'Continental' writers such as Heidegger, who argues that the 'scandal of philosophy' is not that the proof of the existence of an external world has yet to be given, but that such proofs are expected and attempted again and again.

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). Such a mistake would make no sense – literally so, for if the question of whether the Eiffel Tower, London exists, were intelligible, we would have to admit the possibility that those names have no meaning, and thus that the question was not intelligible in the first place. In the 1930s, the Packers briefly experimented with green and gold, although they always returned to the traditional navy. Thus the thought 'Socrates is wise' has Socrates himself as a component, and thus there can be no question of our being radically mistaken as to the nature or existence of an external world. Lambeau, a Notre Dame alumnus, chose the team's colors of blue and gold/yellow from his alma mater. This is that proper names ('Socrates', 'George Bush') refer directly to their bearers, and that their meaning is not mediated by any 'sense' or subjective meaning. 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. A similar idea (though developed from a somewhat different starting point) is the view known as externalism defended recently by philosophers such as John McDowell and Gareth Evans.

In 1920, the Indian Packing Company was purchased by the Acme Packing Company. Yet this is an assumption shared by analytic philosophers. These never were official nicknames, although Lambeau did consider replacing "Packers" with "Blues" in the 1920s. Thus an important theme of phenomenology is an attack on the subject-object dualism of Cartesianism. In the early days, the Packers also were referred to as the "Bays" and the "Blues" (and even occasionally as "the Big Bay Blues"). A fundamental assumption of this school is that mental phenomena have intentionality, they have objects, external to and independent of the mind itself. 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.". Continental philosophy, in the hands of the phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, took a different turn, in its preoccupation with consciousness.

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). Russell's The Philosophy of Logical Atomism is an outline of such a project, Wittgenstein's Tractatus is a more detailed attempt, although famously obscure and aphoristic. Curly Lambeau, the team's founder, solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. Some philosophers (beginning with Frege and Bertrand Russell), have argued that first order logic shows us the true logical form of ordinary language sentences. To poke fun at this nickname, they wear foam triangles made to look like cheese on their heads, which further reinforces the "cheesehead" designation. The difficulty, as yet unresolved, is to determine what the correct logical form must be. 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. According to analytic philosophers, the true meaning of ordinary language sentences is, somewhat misleadingly, concealed by their grammatical form, and we must translate them into their true form (known as logical form) in order to clarify them.

The Packers also draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFL's Monday Night Football telecasts. 'baldness', 'existence') there corresponds something in reality. For this reason, it is not unusual for fans to designate a recipient of their season tickets in their wills. We imagine that to every word (e.g. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. What underlies the analytic tradition is the view (originally defended by Ockham) that philosophical error arises from misunderstandings generated by language. The Packers have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports. Both traditions appear radically different, yet they have a common root, namely a rejection of the Cartesian and empiricist tradition that dominated philosophy since the early modern period, and particularly of the psychologism that pervaded the logic and method of Idealist philosophy.

The Packers' fan base is notoriously dedicated: No matter how the team performs, Lambeau Field has been sold out every game since 1960. The modern period in philosophy, beginning in the late nineteenth century to the 1950's, was marked by a developing schism in philosophy between 'Continental' tradition, which is mainly Franco-German, and the English and American 'Analytic' tradition. The Super Bowl trophy was ultimately named the Vince Lombardi Trophy in recognition of his and his team's accomplishment. One of the most influential was Edmund Husserl, who founded the philosophical mode known as phenomenology. Green Bay won the first two Super Bowls. By the late 19th Century, however, several important philosophers argued against the Kantians' skeptical attitude. Coach Vince Lombardi took over a last-place team and built it into a juggernaut, winning five league championships over a seven-year span. Immanuel Kant wrote his Critique of Pure Reason in an attempt to reconcile the conflicting views and establish a new groundwork for studying metaphysics rooted in the analysis of the conditions for the possibility of knowledge.

The Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time. Hume was heavily influenced by empiricists John Locke, George Berkeley, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Clarke. They are also the only American professional football team to win three straight titles, which they did twice (1929-1931 and 1965-67). The British Empiricists, John Locke and the Anglo-Irish George Berkeley and David Hume, developed a form of Scepticism and naturalism on roughly scientific principles. The Packers have won more league championships (12, including three Super Bowls) than any other American professional football team. In his Meditations, he systematically destroys all the foundations of knowledge except one (I am thinking, therefore I am), and then uses this single indubitable fact to rebuild a system of knowledge. The balance of the committee is sitting "gratis.". Descartes, who is often called the father of modern philosophy, proposed that philosophy should begin with a radical skepticism about the possibility of obtaining reliable knowledge.

The president is the only officer who receives compensation. His synthesis of Aristotelian metaphysics and practical reasoning with Christian teaching became characteristic of medieval philosophy. 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. One of the greatest synthesizers of Christian and Aristotelian thought was Thomas Aquinas. As a means of running the corporation, a board of directors is elected by the stockholders. Plato defined the issues with which philosophy still wrestles. 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. While Socrates wrote nothing, his influence survives through that of his pupil.

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. Socrates and his pupil Plato revolutionized philosophy. As of June 8, 2005, 111,921 people (representing 4,749,925 shares) can lay claim to a franchise ownership interest. Important pre-Socratic philosophers include Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Parmenides, and Heraclitus. Priced at $200 per share, fans bought 120,010 shares during the 17-week sale, which ended March 16, 1998. Ancient Greek philosophy is typically divided into the pre-Socratic Period, the philosophy of Plato, and the philosophy of Aristotle. It added 105,989 new shareholders and raised more than $24 million, money utilized for the Lambeau Field redevelopment project. Étienne Gilson, in his book The Unity of Philosophic Experience, attempts to show important connections between the ideas of the medieval period and their development in the modern period; this is contrary to traditional interpretations of modern philosophy as a new era unconcerned with the past.

Another stock sale occurred late in 1997 and early in 1998. There is also now focus being put on the post-modern period, especially existentialism. In 1956, area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, which in 1963 became Lambeau Field. Traditionally, the history of western philosophy is divided into three areas: Ancient Greek, Medieval, and Modern. In 1950, the Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team. The Greeks, through the influence of Socrates and his method, developed a tradition of analysis that divided a subject into its components to understand it better. At the November 1997 annual meeting, shareholders voted to change the beneficiary from the Sullivan-Wallen Post to the Green Bay Packers Foundation. Aristotle, who was the first to use this classification (as he believed that to call himself "sophos" or wise was immodest), also considered politics (which he saw as part of ethics), modern-day physics, geology, biology, meteorology, and astronomy as branches of philosophical investigation.

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. These five broad types of question are not the only subjects of philosophical inquiry, and there are many overlaps between the categories which are subsumed within the discipline under the four major headings of Logic, Ontology, Epistemology, and Axiology. The Packers did not move their entire home schedule to Green Bay until 1995. Aesthetics is often considered as a fifth branch. 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. The modern classification, which originates with Christian Wolff, is into four main branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. By comparison, the typical NFL football city usually is populated in the millions. Logic he regarded as theoretical, but not as a science in its own right, since it is a necessary preliminary to all knowledge.

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. Aristotle regarded Ethics not as part of theoretical philosophy at all, but as a practical discipline. The Packers are now the only publicly owned company with a board of directors in American professional sports. The Aristotelian division was as follows:. The financial backers, known as the "Hungry Five," formed the Green Bay Football Corporation. There is no universal agreement about which subjects are the main branches of philosophy. The Packers found new backers the next year and regained the franchise. Philosophy, in this respect, may involve thinking about thinking.

Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was lost the same year. Rather than merely using the concepts that are usually employed in everyday life in thinking about the world, philosophy also makes those concepts themselves the object of study. The Packers became a professional franchise in 1921. Indeed, the unifying goal behind philosophical inquiry may simply be the process of thinking through interesting questions. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. Others say that, at most, the goal of philosophy is to make explicit, or to clarify, the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. Those attracted to the 'big questions' say the point of philosophy is to discover the absolutely fundamental reasons behind everything, or to unify and transcend the insights given by science and religion.

The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Philosophers disagree on the goal of philosophical enquiry. . For example: "What is the meaning of life? How did the world begin? Do I have a soul? Will my soul survive my death? What really exists? Could nothing have ever existed?". [2]. Philosophy generally concerns itself with what are sometimes called 'the big questions'. Currently, a total of 4,749,925 shares are owned by 111,921 stockholders - none of whom receives any dividend. Quite the opposite: science in general used to be known as "natural philosophy".

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). However, this was not the attitude taken by ancient Hellenistic philosophers, who saw any intellectual investigation as philosophy. 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. These philosophers may believe that philosophy does not employ the methods of empirical science, and its questions cannot be answered by observation or experiment, although observation and experiment may prompt those questions. 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. Some philosophers believe that philosophy is not experimental. Founded in 1919, the Packers joined the NFL in 1921 during the league's second season. The role of empirical experimentation in philosophy is questionable.

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). Rather, they are encouraged to provide good reasons for any conclusions they come to. The Packers are the last remaining example of the "small town teams" that comprised a majority of the NFL during the 1920s. Philosophy students are taught not to take anything on trust, "particularly if it seems obvious and undeniable" (Hodges). The team is sometimes affectionately referred to as simply 'The Pack'. Philosophers try wherever possible to examine and criticise beliefs that are commonly taken for granted. They currently belong to the Northern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Philosophy has a critical or skeptical nature.

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. There is some broad agreement that philosophy is characterised by a certain method, subject matter, and objectives. Split games between Milwaukee and Green Bay (1933-1994). . Independent (1919-1920)
National Football League (1921-present). Informally, a "philosophy" may refer to a general world view or to any specific ethic, belief, ritual, doctrine, or claim which is characterised in terms of abstraction and self-reflection. Note: Basketball teams from Chicago and Anderson once used the name Packers as well.. Philosophical literature is characterized by its use of reasoning and argument in order to come to cogent conclusions.

Brandon Johnson - Strength & conditioning assistant. In the modern context, it is used both formally and informally to refer to debates concerning knowledge, reason, logic, and belief in their most fundamental and abstract forms. Mark Lovat - Strength & conditioning assistant. The term philosophy comes from the ancient Greek word "Φιλοσοφία" (philo-sophia), which means "love of wisdom". Rock Gullickson - Strength & conditioning. Aesthetics: What is it to be beautiful? How do beautiful things differ from the everyday? What is Art? Does true beauty exist?. Brad Miller - Special teams assistant. Metaphysics: What is reality, and what exists? What is the nature of those things? Do some things exist independently of our perception? What is the nature of space and time? What is the nature of thought and thinking? What is it to be a person?.

Mike Stock - Special teams coordinator. Ethics: Is there a difference between morally right and wrong actions (or values, or institutions)? If so, what is that difference? Which actions are right and which wrong? Are values absolute, or relative? In general or particular terms, how should I live? How is right and wrong defined? Is there an ultimate "ought"? Is there a normative value or objective that supersedes all others? Are values 'in' the world like tables and chairs and if not how should we understand their ontological status?. Shawn Slocum - Defensive assistant. Epistemology: Is knowledge possible? How do we know what we know? How do we take what is "known" to extrapolate what is "unknown"?. Lionel Washington - Defensive nickel package. Logic: What is truth? How or why do we identify a statement as true or false? And, how do we reason?. Carl Hairston - Defensive ends. This is a much wider and more 'philosophical' subject than the modern subject of the same name, encompassing the philosophy of perception, the theory of knowledge, the nature of the soul (now similar to what is called 'philosophy of mind').

Robert Nunn - Defensive tackles. Psychology. Winston Moss - Linebackers. This includes the nature of material substance, of quality and quantity, of space, causation and change. Kurt Schottenheimer - Defensive backs. Cosmology. Bob Sanders - Defensive coordinator. The science of what ultimately exists, now sometimes called Ontology.

Ben McAdoo - Tight ends. Metaphysics. 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)

    . Central Division (1967-1969). Western Conference (1953-1969)
      . National Conference (1950-1952).

      Western Division (1933-1949).