A Small Town in a Billionaire’s League
SilentPunt Podcast 224 / October 2, 2026
Being a Green Bay Packers owner won’t pay your mortgage. It won’t even get you season tickets. But it does give you a stake in one of the strangest arrangements in professional sports: a community-owned football team surviving in a league of billionaires. Tom Nelson, author of The Green and Gold Standard: A People’s History of the Green Bay Packers, joins me to talk about how a small Wisconsin city pulled that off - and the people who repeatedly stepped in when the team needed saving.
We get into Tom’s first trip to Lambeau, courtesy of a school…
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