Green Bay Packers stock certificate 2011  (Wisconsin)

Desirable sports collectible. Perfect vignette of the Packers modern logo. At the bottom, smaller representations of the club's previous logos back to Acme Packers. Incorporated in the state of Wisconsin (of course). Issued and not cancelled. Dated 2011. Measures approximately 12 x 8 inches.

The Packers have issued shares on multiple occasions throughout their history; 1923, 1935, 1950, 1997, 2011, and 2022. The shares issued are unique. They do not include any equity interest, do not pay a dividend, and cannot be traded on an exchange. They receive nothing but the right to vote at the annual meeting.

In 2011 Three-Quarters of 250,000 Available Shares Sold In First 48 Hours. Green Bay Packers fans have responded enthusiastically to the organization's fifth stock offering by purchasing more than 185,000 shares in the first two days, Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy reported Thursday. Proceeds from the offering went toward the expansion of Lambeau Field, a $143 million project that included 6,700 seats and new video boards.

Back in 1919, a young man named Curly Lambeau (1919-1949) worked in Green Bay at the Indian Packing Company. Lambeau wanted to start a professional football team, and needed money. He asked his employer, the Indian Packing Company, for funding. The first owner, Indian Packing Company, paid an unofficial purchase price of $500 to supply Curly Lambeau with uniforms and equipment. In turn, Lambeau and team manager George Calhoun called the club “Packers.” 

On the evening of August 11, 1919, a score or more of husky young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on Cherry Street and organized a football team. They didn't know it, but that was the beginning of the incredible saga of the Green Bay Packers. The Indian Packing Company was later purchased by the Acme Packing Company. The new football team in Green Bay was named "The Packers." 

The team had had three owners during its first four seasons of existence (1919-22). Indian Packing Company paid $500 to supply Curly Lambeau with uniforms and equipment, the team naming rights offered in return. When Indian was absorbed by Acme, so was the fledgling football franchise. And when Lambeau illegally utilized college players in a non-league game in 1921, the American Professional Football League revoked the Packers' charter and Lambeau subsequently reapplied as the team's cash-strapped sole proprietor.

It was at this desperate juncture that A.B. Turnbull, publisher of The Green Bay Press-Gazette, rallied the community to Curly's cause, assembling a quintet of community leaders known to football history as "The Hungry Five" to orchestrate a public offering of Packers stock to raise the team from the depths of a sea of red ink. "Professional football has put Green Bay on the nation's sport map in capital letters and we must keep it there," the Press-Gazette beseeched its readership. One thousand shares were sold at five dollars each, with the stipulation that the purchaser would buy at least six season tickets as well. The last-ditch gambit worked.

The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. They are the third- oldest franchise in the NFL, established in 1919, and are the only non-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team based in the United States. Since 1957, home games have been played at Lambeau Field. They hold the record for the most wins in NFL history.The Packers have won 13 league championships (although none since 2010 and one in the last 27 years), the most in NFL history, with nine pre-Super Bowl NFL titles and only four Super Bowl victories. The Packers, under coach Vince Lombardi, won the first two Super Bowls in 1966 and 1967; they were the only NFL team to defeat the American Football League (AFL) before the AFL–NFL merger. After Lombardi retired, the Super Bowl trophy was named for him, but the team struggled through the 1970s and 1980s. The team's performance shifted after acquiring Brett Favre in 1992, beginning a new ongoing era which has been characterized by consistent regular-season success, with 23 playoff appearances and two Super Bowl wins in 1996 under head coach Mike Holmgren and 2010 under head coach Mike McCarthy. The Packers have the most wins (826) and the second-highest win–loss record (.571) in NFL history, including both regular season and playoff games. The Packers are longstanding adversaries of the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, and Detroit Lions, who today form the NFL's NFC North division (formerly known as the NFC Central Division). They have played more than 100 games against each of those teams, and have a winning overall record against all of them, a distinction only shared with the Kansas City Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, and Miami Dolphins.