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The Green Bay Packers, a football team in the NFL, are one of the oldest and most respected franchises in sports history. To many people, they are the league’s most consistently successful team. That is a complement when the NFL has had all but eight teams be league champions. The reason that many believe that the Packers achieve such a high rate of success is because of great history and tradition. Over a long period of time, the Packers have become known as the leagues most historically rich team, helping the NFL become as great as it is today.(Anderson 66) The Packers started out by J.E. Clair of Acme Packing Company granting the NFL a franchise for the Green Bay Packers on August twenty seventh of 1921 and the Packers have never looked back since. The next big accomplishment of this franchise was their first ever championship in 1929(Official Packers website). They did the same the next two years after thier first title, making them the team to beat in the NFL. Then sadly, a great era of Packer football ended as the great career of Curly Lambeau came to an end when he resigned in 1950. His legacy lived on when the great stadium the Packers played in then and still play in today was renamed in his honor and became Lambeau F