Team to Legend

Author’s Note: This essay is about the team, Acme Packers’ journey all the way to a legendary franchise, Green Bay Packers. As the author of this essay I am informing the reader on the history of the Green Bay Packers all the way back to 1919.

One day two men, Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun sat down an amount of very athletic men in a conference room in Green Bay Press- Gazette building and formed a football team. Not too long before that day Mr. Lambeau asked the community “Why not? Why not form a football team here in the town of Green Bay.” The two men never even thought that that day would turn into the most successful creation in history of Green Bay.

Acme Meat Packing Company provided everything for the team, hence the name Acme Packers. By the middle of just their first season the company faded out of business. The first season was ended with ten wins and one loss, being the best record in Wisconsin, and some of upper Michigan. Not many people paid to go to the games but by 1921 the Packers were so good that Curly was offered a franchise in the National Football League. Customers still were not paying for the game so the team had to forfeit the season early.

The team was having many troubles after that, Curly had to pay the majority of their problems. They would get rained out a lot due to Wiconsin’s harsh weathers. The insurance company would never cover the prices so once again Curly would have to pay with his own money. As they were get deeper and deeper into the debt A.B. Turnbull lobbied town businessmen (Hungry Five) and turned the group into the Green Bay Football Corporation.

From the beginning all the way to the end, the Packers have been notices worldwide with winning over 13 championships in a 93 year franchise. These achievements represented a small town while other huge towns like New York City weren’t achieving that much with very much more money.

So, since the beginning of time when the “Packers” were created all the way to 2012, they have been recognized as one of the greatest teams in the history of the NFL. Curly Lambeau was the first head coach of the Acme Packers, one of his best players was Vince Lombardi who then became their head coach bringing home the championship many times. We now Mike McCarthy coach of the Green Bay Packers getting a spot in the playoffs each year as head coach.

Bibliography:

 "Packers.com | Birth of a Team & a Legend." Packers.com, the official website of the Green Bay Packers. N.p., 3 Mar. 2011. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. <http://www.packers.com/history/birth-of-a-team-and-a-legend.html>.

"Packers.com | History." Packers.com, the official website of the Green Bay Packers. N.p., 3 Apr. 2011. Web. 26 Mar. 2012. <http://www.packers.com/history/index.html>.