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Green Bay Packers 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) NFC North, North division. It ...
are a professional
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team based in
Green Bay, Wisconsin Green Bay is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The county seat of Brown County, it is at the head of Green Bay (known locally as "the bay of Green Bay"), a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Fox River. It is above sea lev ...
. Since their founding in
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Curly Lambeau Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 – June 1, 1965) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). Lambeau, along with his friend and fellow Green Bay, Wisconsin native George Whitney Calho ...
and
George Whitney Calhoun George Whitney Calhoun (September 16, 1890 – December 6, 1963) was an American newspaper editor and co-founder of the Green Bay Packers, a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. After establishing the Packers ...
, the Packers have played over 1,350 games in 100 seasons of competitive football. The first two seasons the Packers played against local teams in and around Wisconsin. In 1921, they became part of the ''American Professional Football Association'', the precursor to the
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(NFL). In their 99 seasons, the Packers have won 13 professional American football championships (the most in NFL history), including nine
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and four
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s. They have captured 18 divisional titles, eight conference championships, and recorded the second most regular season (748) and overall victories (785) of any NFL franchise. The franchise has experienced three major periods of continued success in their history. The first period of success came from –, when the Packers were named NFL Champions six times. This period saw the Packers become the first
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of American football (1929–). The second period of success was between –, where the Packers won five NFL Championships and the first two Super Bowls. The Packers also won three consecutive NFL Championships for the second time in franchise history (–1967). The most recent period of success ranges from –
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, where the franchise has reached the
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22 times, with three Super Bowl appearances, winning two in
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. This period included the 2011 season, where the team won 15 games, the most the Packers have won in a single season. The Packers have also experienced periods of extended failure in their history. The two most notable times were from –, where the franchise never placed higher than 3rd in the league standings and recorded the worst record of any Packers team, going 1–10–1 in 1958. The second period of continued failure occurred between –, where the club only went to the playoffs twice, and recorded only six winning seasons.


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Green Bay Packers 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) NFC North, North division. It ...
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