Video of the Day: Birth of a Team and a Legend

We hope you enjoy his short look back at one of, if not the greatest franchise in sports history.  In putting this together we learned a lot of things about the Packers we never knew.

On August 11, 1919, a score (20) or more husky young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on Cherry Street and organized a football team.  At the time, and obviously they did not know it, but that was the beginning of the incredible, gloried legend of the Green Bay Packers. 

Lambeau and Calhoun struck the initial spark a few weeks before, during a casual street-corner conversation. It was apparently a "Why not get up a football team?" remark, but once they were interested, they wasted no time.  Read more…

Here is a look at the humble origin of this sports legend.  Rather arcane by today’s standards.  Today's high school l teams are better equipped than these guys were.