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The Green Bay Packers, a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin are currently the members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The last remaining examples of the "small town teams", the Packers comprised a majority of the NFL during the 1920s. Green Bay is the smallest media market to be the home of a North American major professional sports league. It joined the NFL in 1921 though founded in 1919. The team is renowned to hold the record for most NFL league championships with 12: nine NFL Championships prior to the Super Bowl era, Super Bowl I, Super Bowl II, and Super Bowl XXXI. It is also distinguished of winning the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games that were held before the AFL-NFL Merger, later referred to as Super Bowl I and II.

They are currently the only publicly owned major league professional sports team in the United States. A total of 4,750,925 shares are owned by 111,967 stockholders and none of them receive any dividend. The Packers have long had a large following throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest. The Packers played four home games each year in Milwaukee, first at the State Fair Park fairgrounds, then at Milwaukee County Stadium. The Packers held a stock sale to again raise money to support the team in 1950. Area voters approved the construction of a new stadium, owned by the city in 1956. The Packers have won 12 league championships more than any other American professional football team. They are also the only American professional football team to win three straight NFL titles, which they did twice (1929-1931 and 1965-67). The Packers of the 1960s were one of the most dominant NFL teams of all time but their poor performance through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s led to a shakeup.

The Packers' November 27 loss to the Eagles assured the Packers their first losing season since 1991 and Brett Favre's first losing season in his career. The team's offensive roster was devastated by injuries, including many of the team's standout players. For example, wide receivers Javon Walker and Robert Ferguson and running backs Ahman Green, Najeh Davenport, Tony Fisher, and Samkon Gado all suffered major injuries. Also hampered by injuries yet remaining in the line-up were linebacker Na'il Diggs and Favre, who suffered repeated injuries to his throwing hand.

The Packers drafted Ohio State linebacker A.J. Hawk with the fifth overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft on April 29, 2006. They have one of the longest waiting lists for season tickets in professional sports with about 71,500 people as of early 2006. The current wait time for season tickets is approximately 35 years. For this reason, it is not unusual for fans to designate a recipient of their season tickets in their wills. They are also renowned to draw the largest national TV audiences for the NFL's Monday Night Football telecasts.