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akern
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 Posted: 01/11/04 - 22:10 Post subject: What exactly is a Packer anyway?
Seriously. 
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runswithscissors
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Posted: 01/11/04 - 22:11 Post subject:
Green Bay is known for it's packing industries. I think it was initially named after meat packers - seriously.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 01/11/04 - 22:22 Post subject:
So what's a Nittany Lion? 
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 01/11/04 - 22:38 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | So what's a Nittany Lion? |
I think it is a kind of Mountain Lion?
to lazy to go to google to find a real answer
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gretriever
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Posted: 01/11/04 - 23:08 Post subject:
Many teams in the early NFL were sponsored by businesses. For example, there was a team in Decatur, Illinois, sponsored by a local business called the Staley Company there (I think it was in the auto industry); and the team was called the Decatur Staleys. You now know them better as the Chicago Bears.
The Packers, were sponsored, as RWS correctly said by a meat-packing company in GB. They were named for the company and known for the first year or two as the Acme Packers (there are team photos where their jerseys have that on it). Dunno when they were simply started referred to as the Green Bay Packers.
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kristin31
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 02:49 Post subject:
True on the meat-packing theory. Also, (and probably a LOT of you guys already know this) the Packers are the only (I think?!) NFL team owned by the city of their origin...or the people in the city. That's kinda cool...even though they lost today... 
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Pug
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 10:34 Post subject:
I did not know that.
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 10:38 Post subject:
Nitnany is the mountain near PSU. The large cat that calls that are home is the source of the name.
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 10:42 Post subject:
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 11:00 Post subject:
A Packer is a team that will be watching this year's Super Bowl 
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Posted: 01/12/04 - 11:05 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | A Packer is a team that will be watching this year's Super Bowl |
isn't that what a football team's players from Mafia land are doing today
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