Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers will play the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings at home and away each year in addition to their non-division opponents. The Packers will also play two games against teams outside their division who finished in the same position as the Packers the previous year.
Year Home Away
2003 -- Denver, Kansas City, San Francisco, Seattle Arizona, St. Louis, Oakland, San Diego
2004 -- Dallas, Jacksonville, New York Giants, Tennessee Houston, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Washington
2005 -- Cleveland, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay Atlanta, Baltimore, Carolina, Cincinnati
2006 -- Arizona, New England, New York Jets, St. Louis Buffalo, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle
2007 -- Oakland, Philadelphia, San Diego, Washington Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, New York Giants
2008 -- Atlanta, Carolina, Houston, Indianapolis Jacksonville, New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Tennessee
2009 -- Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Seattle Arizona, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis
When Green Bay Packers coach Mike Sherman announced to his players Thursday morning who had been selected to the NFC�s Pro Bowl team, he mentioned four players that had been selected and the six that were alternates.
Dec. 20, 2002
It was a modest beginning. Fewer than 25 young men showed up for the meeting, which was held in the newsroom of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. George W. Calhoun, sports editor of the Press-Gazette, and Earl "Curly" Lambeau, a 20-year-old with a passion for football, presided over a meeting on Aug. 14.
Legend has it that Lambeau, an outstanding high school athlete in the city, was itching to play football a year after an acute case of tonsillitis forced him to leave Notre Dame, where he made Knute Rockne's varsity team as a freshman.
At a Green Bay tavern, sometime during the summer of 1919, Lambeau and Calhoun had a chance conversation. Lambeau mentioned that he missed playing football to Calhoun, who supposedly said, "Why don't you get up a team in Green Bay?''
Lambeau jumped at the idea, according to local lore. For the next several weeks, Calhoun ran notices in the Press-Gazette, inviting local athletes to the meeting. The sports editor even ran some names in the paper, suggesting these players should attend the meeting.
By the time that first meeting was over, the young men had elected Lambeau as the team's captain. Calhoun agreed to be team manager. After that first meeting, Calhoun wrote in the next day's Press-Gazette, "Indications point to the 'Indians' having the greatest team in the history of football in Green Bay.''
The team was to be called the Indians because Frank Peck, Lambeau's boss at the Indian Packing Co., put up some money for equipment and gave the team the use of an empty lot for workouts. But before the end of the season, the Press-Gazette was already calling the team the Green Bay Packers.
The players held their first practice on Sept. 3, 1919. They practiced three times a week, playing their first game on Sept. 14, against the Menominee North End A.C. Green Bay won that game, 53-0
