Featured is a GREEN BAY PACKERS Chrome Mini Helmet.
The picture doesn't do justice to this magnificant helmet! These mini helmets use a special paint treatment over chrome, resulting in an extremely shiny surface that draws your eye like none other. These are limited to 2,000 of each team, & individually numbered. They include a quarterback style steel face mask. Not many of these around
The Packers are the last remaining example of the "small town teams" that comprised a majority of the NFL during the 1920s. Green Bay is by far the smallest media market to be the home of a North American major professional sports league team (though their fanbase includes Milwaukee and most of Wisconsin).
Founded in 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun as a new version of the semi-pro town teams that had been playing in Green Bay since 1896, the Packers turned professional and joined the League in 1921
 
additional titles in 1966,1967,1996, after which they defeated the American Football League/American Football Conference champion in Super Bowl I, Super Bowl
and Super Bowl XXXI. The team also holds the distinction of winning the first two AFL-NFL Championship Games that were held before the AFL-NFL Merger, later referred to as Super Bowl I and II
The Packers are currently the only non-profit, community owned major league professional sports team in the United States. Currently, a total of 4,750,925 shares are owned by 111,967 stockholders — none of whom receive any dividendIn the early days, the Packers also were referred to as the "Bays" and the "Blues" (and even occasionally as "the Big Bay Blues"). These never were official nicknames, although Lambeau did consider replacing "Packers" with "Blues" in the 1920s.
The Green Bay Packers were founded on August 11, 1919 by Curly Lambeau and Green Bay Press-Gazette sports editor George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. Today "Green Bay Packers" is the oldest team name still in use in the NFL
The Packers became a professional franchise in 1921. Financial troubles plagued the team and the franchise was lost the same year. The Packers found new backers the next year and regained the franchise. The financial backers, known as the "Hungry Five," formed the Green Bay Football Corporation
The Packers have won 12 league championships, more than any other American professional football team. They have also won 3 Super Bowls. (One of these games decided the NFL champion, and the first two date to the era when the AFL and NFL were still two separate leagues.) The Packers are also the only team to win three straight NFL titles, which they did twice (1929-1931 and 1965-67)
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