August 27 - The Packers

Labor History in 2:00 · Aug 27, 2026 · 1m

On this day in Labor History the year was 1921.

That was the day that Green Bay Packers football team received a charter from American Professional Football Association.

A year later this would become the National Football League.

The Green Bay club had started up two years earlier.

Its original sponsor was the Indian Packing Company, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

They packaged canned meat.

Meat packing was a major industry in the Midwest during this era.

Packing plants in Chicago, Kansas City, Iowa and Wisconsin processed the cattle and pigs raised in the west as meat to feed the nation.

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