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RETIRED NUMBERSGREEN BAY’S FIVE RETIRED UNIFORM NUMBERSMISC.LAMBEAUFIELDADMIN. &COACHESVETERANSRETIREDNUMBERSDRAFT &FREE AGENTS2012 REVIEWCOMMUNITYThe Green Bay Packers will formally retire Brett Favre’s No. 4 at afuture date to be determined, according to club president/CEO Mark Murphy, which will mark only the sixth time in nine decades thefranchise will formally remove a uniform number from circulation.The last player who had his number retired was Reggie White, whose No. 92 was retired in the 2005 home opener. The gesture was notspurred by White’s premature death in December 2004. In fact, then-Packers CEO Bob Harlan had met with White three months before hepassed away and told him of the team’s plans to retire the number during the ’05 season. All retired numbers are displayed on the greenfaçade of Lambeau Field’s north end zone (pictured below).Not including Favre, the five previous Packers players to have their number retired are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.There is no known evidence that Tony Canadeo, one of those five, was ever honored at a public ceremony; the club is believed to haveretired his number sometime during or after the 1952 season. Some think the team retired his No. 3 on “Tony Canadeo Day,” Nov. 23,1952, against the Dallas Texans at (old) City Stadium. The future Hall of Famer scored two TDs that day in a 42-14 Packers win, butnewspaper accounts don’t mention the number retirement.In research supplied by the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the team’s four known number-retirement dates:14 Don Hutson 12/02/51 vs. New York Yanks City Stadium15 Bart Starr 11/11/73 vs. St. Louis Cardinals Lambeau Field66 Ray Nitschke 12/04/83 vs. Chicago Bears Lambeau Field92 Reggie White 09/18/05 vs. Cleveland Browns Lambeau Field522
SHAREHOLDER HISTORY & FINANCIAL HISTORYOf all the things that make the Green Bay Packers and their story soincredible and unique, the most significant is simply this: The team isliterally owned by its fans.Presently, 364,114 people (representing 5,014,545 shares) can layclaim to a franchise ownership interest.Shares of stock include voting rights, but the redemption price isminimal, 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 safeguardto ensure that no one individual is able to assume control of the club.The team has had three other owners, all in its first four years, 1919-22. The first owner, Indian Packing Company, paid an unofficial purchaseprice of $500 to supply Curly Lambeau with uniforms and equipment. Inturn, Lambeau and team manager George Calhoun called the club “Packers.”Shortly thereafter, Acme Packing Company bought Indian PackingCompany and all its assets, including the fledgling team. In 1921, Lambeauconvinced new owners John and Emmitt Clair to apply for membership inthe new American Professional Football Association (early NFL).With the team already headed for bankruptcy, the APFA revoked thefranchise after Lambeau used illegal college players in a non-league gamelater that year. But before the 1922 season, Lambeau by himself reappliedand the league reinstated the Packers, with Lambeau as owner. When rainthreatened to sink the team in 1922, A.B. Turnbull came to the rescue.Turnbull, publisher of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, grocery manLee Joannes, attorney Gerald Clifford and Dr. W. Webber Kelly cancelledLambeau’s $2,500 debt, then rallied the community behind the team.In August 1923, with more than 400 in attendance at a local Elks Club,the club was transformed into a nonprofit entity, the Green Bay PackersCorporation. The five men, including Lambeau, were nicknamed theHungry Five.There now have been five stock drives in the 92-year history of theteam. The first stock sale, which took place at that 1923 meeting, sawlocal merchants raise $5,000 by selling 1,000 shares for $5 apiece, with astipulation that the purchaser also had to buy at least six season tickets.The second, in 1935, raised $15,000 after the corporation hadgone into receivership. At that point, the nonprofit Green Bay FootballCorporation was reorganized as the Green Bay Packers, Inc., the presentcompany, with 300 shares of stock outstanding.The third, in 1950, came on the heels of Lambeau’s 30-year dominion,when the club’s officers arranged to amend the corporation’s bylaws topermit the sale of up to 10,000 total shares of stock (opening up morethan 9,500 shares for purchase), to limit the number of shares that anyindividual could own. The team also increased the number of directorsfrom 15 to 25.The response to the 1950 drive was inspiring, with people from allacross Wisconsin, as well as former Green Bay residents living in otherstates, coming forward to buy the $25 shares of stock. Roughly $50,000was raised in one 11-day period alone. Reportedly, one woman from aEVENTS THAT HELPED TO STABILIZE PACKERS FINANCIALLY, 1922-66523farm near Wrightstown, Wis., showed up at the team’s offices with $25worth of quarters in a match box. A total of about $118,000 was generatedthrough this major stock sale, helping to put the Packers on a soundfinancial basis once again.The fourth came late in 1997 and early in 1998. It added 105,989 newshareholders and raised more than $24 million, monies which were utilizedfor the Lambeau Field redevelopment project. Priced at $200 per share,120,010 shares were purchased by fans during the 17-week sale, whichended March 16, 1998.With the NFL supporting the plan, the existing 1,940 shareholdersoverwhelmingly voted to amend the articles of the corporation on Nov. 13,192319351950• A.B. Turnbull’s actions, 1922-23 — When rain threatened to keep fans away and bankrupt the Packers, Turnbull told Lambeau andGeorge Calhoun to play their games and that he’d bail them out of debt. Turnbull then organized local investors, turned team into nonprofitorganization in 1923, and raised $1,000 in team’s first stock drive.• Decision to play games in Milwaukee, 1933 — Allowed Packers to tap larger market. As a result, the Packers nowhave one of the largest territories in sports (the NFL has traditionally given teams only 75-mile radius). By playing inboth Green Bay and Milwaukee (1939-94), Packers thwarted any efforts to establish another competing pro footballteam there.• Court decision to appoint receiver, 1935 — After fan who fell from City Stadium bleachers sued Packers, team petitionedfor friendly receiver, while litigation ran its course. Henry Graass, circuit court judge and Packers fan, appointedlocal accountant Frank Jonet as receiver. Despite Great Depression, Packers prospered during receivership (1934-37),thanks in part to growing popularity of NFL.• Second stock drive, 1935 — President Lee Joannes raises $15,000 in “Save the Packers” stock drive, getting donationsfrom firefighters, policemen, high school students, housewives, civic leaders and other citizens.• Joe Carr’s sending Don Hutson to Green Bay, 1935 — College star signed two contracts, including one with Brooklyn football Dodgers.League President Joe Carr awarded Hutson to Packers because team’s contract was postmarked earlier. Hutson, pivotal in timely 1936world championship and greatest player in Green Bay history, helped team to climb out of court receivership.• NFL’s installation of college draft, 1936 — Kept small-market teams such as Packers competitive with big-city opponents.• Lee Joannes donation, 1937 — Packers president paid $6,000 to settle case of fan who fell from stands in 1934, then convinced court toend receivership period.• Decision to invest in war bonds, 1940s — Money in reserve carried team despite losses of at least $25,000 in 1943 alone, as World WarII depleted rosters.• Intrasquad game, Thanksgiving, 1949 — Packers brought old-timers back, drawing 15,000 to City Stadium, earning $50,000.• Third stock drive, 1950—After Lambeau’s departure, team raised nearly $118,000.• Bert Bell’s push for league-wide TV package, 1950s — With help from Congress, commissioner laid groundwork for CBS-TV deal thatallowed all teams, large market and small market, to share revenue, eventually in place by the 1961 season. In 1966, Pete Rozelle signedfirst NFL TV package, with CBS and NBC, giving Packers more than $1 million (which allowed Vince Lombardi to sign Donny Anderson tothe team’s first long-term contract).JonetCOMMUNITYSHAREHOLDER HISTORYADMIN. &COACHESDRAFT &VETERANS FREE AGENTS 2012 REVIEWSHAREHOLDERHISTORYLAMBEAUFIELD MISC.
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