Today, Aug. 11, is the Green Bay Packers 96th birthday.
We know it’s a special day thanks to one sentence that appeared in the Aug. 13, 1919, edition of the Green Bay Press-Gazette under the headline: “Indian Packing Plant Squad To Represent City.”
The story was seven paragraphs long and revealed the Indian Packing Co. would sponsor a semipro football team that fall, games would be played in a roped-off area at Hagemeister Park, uniforms would be secured for 18 to 20 players, practices would be held three times a week and negotiations were being conducted with other teams in an attempt to complete a schedule.