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Lambeau Field (/ ˈ l æ m b oʊ / ⓘ) is an outdoor athletic stadium in the north central United States, located in Green Bay, Wisconsin.The home field of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL), it opened in 1957 as City Stadium, replacing the original City Stadium at Green Bay East High School as the Packers' home field.
Although City Stadium was the Packers' official home field, in 1933 they began to play some of their home games in Milwaukee to attract more fans and revenue. [3] After hosting one game at Borchert Field in 1933, [ 4 ] the Packers played two or three home games each year in Milwaukee , at Wisconsin State Fair Park from 1934 to 1951 and at ...
The team's intra-squad Lambeau scrimmage at the beginning of the season, marketed as Packers Family Night, was produced for over a decade by WLUK-TV in Green Bay and broadcast by the state's Fox affiliates through the 2016 season. [287] In 2017, Scripps and the Packers Television Network began to originate the Packers Family Night broadcast. [288]
Green Bay Packers, Inc. is the publicly held nonprofit corporation that owns the National Football League (NFL)'s Green Bay Packers football franchise, based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The corporation was established in 1923 as the Green Bay Football Corporation , and received its current legal name in 1935.
Although City Stadium was the Packers' official home field, in 1933—during the worst of the Great Depression—they began to play part of their home schedule in Milwaukee. After holding one contest at Borchert Field in 1933, the Packers played two or three home games each year in Milwaukee, at State Fair Park in West Allis from 1934 to 1951 ...
Plans for Phase 2 were announced by the Packers on October 3, 2018. The plan will add the residential and office elements to the project including up to 150 apartment building units, 70–90 townhomes available for ownership and 130,000 square feet of mixed-use office space above retail and restaurant space in a four- to five-story building. [11]
Lambeau, as the Packers first coach, led the team for almost 30 years until he resigned in 1949 after a falling-out with the executive leadership of the Packers. [5] During his time as head coach, Lambeau secured six NFL championships ( 1929 , 1930 , 1931 , 1936 , 1939 , and 1944 ) and won almost two-thirds of his games. [ 6 ]
His number 14 was the first number retired by the Packers, in a public ceremony at a game at City Stadium on December 2, 1951. [23] Hutson Street in the Packerland Industrial Park in Green Bay is named for him, and in 1994 the Packers named their new state-of-the-art indoor practice facility across the street from Lambeau Field the "Don Hutson ...