Green Bay Packers is referring to canned meat packers.

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Back in the early 1900s, there was a company called the Indian Packing Company. The canned meat company was founded in Delaware, but in 1921, it was taken over by Acme Packing Company out of Illinois.

The new company had a facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Acme Packing Company sadly closed in 1943 after World War II, and they never reopened.

That said, it passed along its name to the Green Bay Packers.

As a vegetarian, I am grossed out. As a Packers fan, I try not to think about it.

[left-of-center2012]

1. Let me get this correct

You get grossed out because a football team is named after a former meat packing company?

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5. Yes.

I am grossed out by the butchering of animals.

[brooklynite]

9. How do you manage to walk into a supermarket?

[milestogo]

11. I walk in just fine.

But they don't butcher animals at a supermarket, and there is no reason for me to walk past meat.

[Revanchist]

17. I may be wrong

But I don't think they are butchering animals at a football stadium either. I'm surprised that the name disgusts you but you didn't say anything about the leather ball.

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27. As I said, I try not to think about it.

A lot of team names and even sporting equipment could stand to be updated, but thats not their priority.

[Casady1]

2. Honestly

in those days the names of teams made more sense.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Okay?

[Hoyt]

4. In the 50/60s, I became a Packers fan simply because I liked their uniforms.

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[milestogo]

6. They are good football colors

But I really like the Seahawks colors better.

[Hoyt]

8. Good too.

[NoSheep]

12. yesssssss

[PJMcK]

16. Still the best colors!

Notice Bart Starr (#15) on the left, second row from the back. As a player, he was one of my childhood heroes.

[Elwood P Dowd]

19. Great old team picture. Some I picked out so far are...

Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke, Willie Wood, Jerry Kramer, Jim Taylor, Max McGee, Paul Horning, Boyd Dowler, Forrest Gregg.

[Hoyt]

23. The players were pretty good too. I read a couple of books by Kramer that were really excellent.

[Bantamfancier]

24. How many guys can you see slyly

flipping the bird in that picture?

[rsdsharp]

32. I looked pretty closely, and don't see any.

Not surprising. Players didn’t tend to fuck around with Vince Lombardi, unless they wanted a quick ticket to Washington or Pittsburgh, or some other 1960s NFL Siberia. Lombardi traded All Pro center Jim Ringo to Philadelphia because he had the temerity to try to use an agent to negotiate his contract.

[rsdsharp]

31. That appears to be the 1960 Packers.

Willie Davis and Willie Wood are in the picture, and Herb Adderley isn’t. The Packers traded for Davis and signed Wood as a free agent in 1960. They drafted Adderley before the 1961 season.

There are 10 of the 13 Lombardi era Hall of Famers in the photo: Forrest Gregg, Ray Nitschke, Willie Davis, Paul Hornung, Bart Starr, Jim Ringo, Henry Jordan, Jerry Kramer, Jim Taylor and Willie Wood.

Dave Robinson and Herb Adderley weren’t on the team yet, and Coach Lombardi isn’t in the picture. Hall of Famer Emlen Tunnell is in the photo, but he is really a New York Giant Hall of Famer.

[Jimbo S]

33. Just to think, Ron Wolf

wanted to change the colors to Notre Dame colors as one of first moves after becoming GM. The fans had none of that. A story that is long forgotten.

[Harker]

7. You could mentally insert an inoffensive product...

Tofurkey Packers.

Textured Vegetable Protein Packers.

[robbob]

26. I was thinking more along the lines of

Green Bay Fudge Packers. But that’s just my twisted mind at work…😂

[Harker]

28. You're hardly alone.

I finally gave up football, but as a long suffering Bears fan, I often thought of them as the Green Bay Fucking Packers.

[Greybnk48]

10. We moved to Wisconsin in 1961, just south of Green Bay.

We had been Eagles fans, but with the Packers, it was love at first sight!

Many of the players lived in and around where we did, and it was common to run into them. Several players owned a bar in the little town next to ours, and the team seemed like a hometown team!

Love the Pack!

[Kali]

13. as an omnivore I am kind of grossed out

by grown men making obscene amounts of money running around in padding playing a stupid game for an audience. but the world goes on.

[Greybnk48]

14. We moved from Philly to Wisconsin in 1961, just south of Green Bay.

We had been Eagles fans, my dad for decades; but with the Packers, it was love at first sight!

Many of the players lived in and around where we did, and it was common to run into them. Several players owned a bar in the little town next to ours, and the team seemed like a hometown team!

Love the Pack!

[grumpyduck]

15. Hmmm...

I wonder if this was the same Acme that Wile E. Coyote got his stuff from?

[Music Man]

20. Not sure if this is shitposting or not (re: Cleveland Guardians)

[WhiskeyGrinder]

25. Same.

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29. My dislike of the Packers name pales in comparison

to calling a team the "Indians", which is clearly offensive to native Americans.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

30. FWIW, your OP did read just a bit like you were suggesting that people who don't like

team names should just work hard to ignore them.

[EYESORE 9001]

21. I thought it had to do with fudge

[GusBob]

22. The greatest thing about the Packers is their community ownership

No billionaire owner.

Of interest: as a corporation, their financials are public information. So they were one of the only sports teams to post their losses due to COVID last year. I cannot recall the amount, but it was a chunk