The Green Bay Packers really weren't named after meat packing workers. In 1919 during a chance meeting between Earl "Curly' Lambeau a former football star at Green Bay East High (He spent one year at Notre Dame under the great ND football coach, Knute Rockne) and George Calhoun, Sports Editor of The Green Bay Press-Gazette at a local Saloon. "Curly" told George how much he missed playing football. George Calhoun suggested He and Curly form a town football team. An Ad was placed in Press-Gazette asking local football players to come to the P.G. office the following week to form a team. It was done, Curly was selected captain of the team and Goerge Calhoun business manager. How ever the new town team needed money and place to play games and practice. Curly went to his employer at the Acme Packing Company and asked the Company boss to sponsor this new team. His boss agreed and gave "Curly" money ($500) to buy the Football equipment and gave permission to use the field behind the plant for the team to practice and play games on. With one stipulation the Packing company 's name must be on the jersey. "Acme Packers" was printed on the Green Bay Town Football team blue-Gold jerseys. Acme Packing Company folded before the Packers first season ended. However, a second comapny picked up sponsorship of the Packers in 1920. The Packers played a independent schedule in its first two year made of town teams in Wi. and upper Michigan. Green Bay packers trounced most of it's opposition by big margins. Around 1920 The American Professional Association was being formed (now call NFL) in Canton Ohio. In 1921 "Curly' decided the Green Bay Packers should apply for a Franchise. Curly's boss at Indian Packing Company agreed to pay $250 franchise fee. The Green Bay Packers (Indian Packing Company) were granted a franchise in the NFL. In 1922 Curly and George decided a more stable financial base was needed and a better organization was needed to insure success in the NFL. So a Green Ba y lawyer drew up the incorporation papers of the(Non profit) Green Bay Profession al Football Corporation (now Green Bay Packers, Inc.) The Incorporation papers were filed with the State of Wi. to fund this new Corporation 1500 shares of Corporation stock were offered at $5.00 per share. These shares would not increase in value and would not give any dividends to the Packer shareholder. Thus the Packers have never had a rich owner and still operated(since 1922) as a non profit Public Coporation. And can never be moved from Green Bay, unless the Team would go into Bankrupcy and then be taken over by NFL. I guess, I got carried away by the unique Green Bay Story, how this the smallest city in major league sports has a franchise in the number one league in professional sports in USA and why Packer franchise should be called the Packers not meatheads or cheeseheads. As Paul Harvey says: "Now you know, the rest of the Story."