The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the third-oldest franchise in the NFL, dating back to 1919, and is the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Home games have been played at Lambeau Field since 1957. Today we will discuss about Packers: New Uniforms| Throw Back Jersey| Retro Uniforms.
Packers: New Uniforms| Throw Back Jersey| Retro Uniforms…
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by former high-school football rivals Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company, a meat packing company. He was given $500 ($7,500 today) for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named after its sponsor. The Green Bay Packers have played in their original city longer than any other team in the NFL.
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Independent (1919–1920)
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| Team colors | Dark green, gold, white |
| Fight song | “Go! You Packers Go!” |
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| Owner(s) | Green Bay, Inc. (360,760 stockholders—governed by a Board of Directors) |
| Chairman | Mark H. Murphy |
| CEO | Mark H. Murphy |
| President | Mark H. Murphy |
| Head coach | Matt LaFleur |
| General manager | Brian Gutekunst |
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New Uniforms
The Packers’ uniforms underwent minimal changes 15 years after Lombardi’s exit. In 1969, they wore a commemorative logo on top of their left shoulder along with the rest of the NFL, honoring the league’s 50th anniversary. In 1970, the Packers conformed with a league mandate to apply last names on the backs of all players.
In 1984, new head coach Forrest Gregg made the most changes to the uniform since Lombardi by adding the ‘G’ logo to float on each sleeve’s striping, uniforms numbers to align on each hip, and gold was included in the middle striping for pants. After Gregg’s tenure, the “TV numbers” were removed in 1988. While several NFL teams choose to wear white jerseys at home early in the season due to white’s ability to reflect the late summer sunrays, they have only done so only twice, during the opening two games of the 1989 season.
Throw Back Jersey
In 1997, for the first time since Lombardi’s 1958 team, the Packers’ uniform returned to three stripes on a sleeve, shifting down from five stripes.
In 2003, “Rebirth of a Legend” patch was worn on the chest for the first game in rededicated Lambeau Field. In 2007, the Packers paid tribute to Lambeau Field again, wearing the “Lambeau Field 50th Anniversary” patch for all home games. In 2010, the Packers began wearing throwback jerseys for one home game during the season. In 2021 the Packers did a big change to their logo.
Retro Uniforms
On February 2, 1959, Vince Lombardi accepted the position of Head Coach and General Manager of the Green Bay. Lombardi requested to revamp the uniforms, basic designs, and colors. All uniforms featured a three-striped design on socks. Also, all players were asked to wear the same style cleats. To this day, the current design remains.
The oval G logo was created in 1959 by Packers equipment manager Gerald “Dad” Braisher for Lombardi. The logo would be added to the helmets in 1961, the team’s first and only helmet logo.
