The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The team was founded in 1919 by Earl "Curly" Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun, and it traces its lineage to other semi-professional teams in Green Bay dating back to 1896.

The teams name, "Packers," comes from the Indian Packing Company, a meat packing company that sponsored the team in its early days. Curly Lambeau, who was working as a shipping clerk for the company, convinced his employer to sponsor the team by providing uniforms, financing the start of the club, and offering up the company’s football field for the team to train on. In return, the team was named after the company, the "Packers," for advertising purposes. A few years later, in 1921, Acme Packing bought out Indian Packing, and the club used the "Acme Packers" title on the players’ jerseys in their first year in the American Professional Football Association, the precursor to the NFL. The Acme Packers later became the Green Bay Packers, taking on the name of the city where the franchise is based to this day.