There are the New
York Yankees in MLB with 27 titles, the Montreal Canadians in the NHL with 24
titles, the Boston Celtics in the NBA with 17 titles, including 8 in a row and
Brazil with 5 World Cups championships, but the most storied team in the
history of sports is the 13-time World Champion Green Bay Packers from the
smallest town (105,139 population) to field a major sports team and the only
sports franchise to be owned by stockholders and not by a deep pocket owner.
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The Packers story
is the story of the NFL itself. The immortal Curly Lambeau founded the team in
1919 and joined the fledgling NFL 2 years later. It was by shear will and
personality that Lambeau kept the team alive as general manager and as coach he
built a team that along with NFL founder George “Papa Bear” Halas ruled the
league during his official 29 years at the helm (1921-1949).
Lambeau’s Packers
won 6 championships (1929, 1930, 1931, 1936, 1939, 1944) becoming the first and
only team to win 3 championships in a row until the Packers under Vince Lombardi
did it again in 1965, 1966, 1967. In comparison Halas won 6 championships (1921,
1933, 1940, 1941, 1946, 1963) over his 48 years as coach of the Bears
(1920-67).
