Everyone knows that the professional league is ultimately a business, and profit is the essence of the team's pursuit. Therefore, the best choice for creating a professional team is undoubtedly a big city, such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Houston. Such a market is deep enough and popular enough to support a professional team, and can base itself on the professional league and ensure that the team can continue to operate.

The St. Louis Rams once left Los Angeles in 1994 because the market was not strong enough, but returned to Los Angeles for the same reason in 2016; the San Diego Lightning had a brief stay in Los Angeles for a year in 1960, and then returned to Los Angeles in 2017 with the Rams.

In addition, the Oakland Raiders are planning to go to Las Vegas in 2020, and the NBA team Golden State Warriors are also preparing to move from Oakland to San Francisco, which is a bridge across. Cleveland City Hall spends a lot of energy every year to leave NBA and NFL professional teams, hoping that they will not leave.

The above cases are just the tip of the iceberg, and everything proves the same thing: big cities are the best destination for professional teams.

However, there are also surprises in this, and there are still teams who are willing to choose to station in small cities and successfully occupy a place in the professional league where interests are paramount. Among them, the NFL Green Bay Packers are listed.

Located in northern Wisconsin, next to Lake Michigan, Green Bay is just a small county town with a population of only 100,000. Even though it seems too shabby as an NCAA team, this land has given birth to one of the greatest teams in the NFL.

Founded in 1919, Green Bay Packers is the third-longest team in North America after the Arizona Cardinals and the Chicago Bears, and is also the only non-profit team in the NFL jointly owned by the public rather than privately owned profitable team.

Since its inception, this team has officially established a non-profit tradition. Even when they came to the commodity society in the 21st century and faced fierce competition, they have never changed their original intentions. In order to continue the team's operations, in history, they issued a total of five stocks for financing.

The first financing occurred in 1923. Since then, because the market is too small and financially difficult, in order to prevent the team from leaving Green Bay due to financial problems, the second and third financings were conducted in 1935 and 1950 respectively.

It was still the ancient exchange era. At that time, all the residents of Green Bay were in full bloom, and there were thousands of people waiting hard at the door of the stock exchange, with long queues.

Although they knew that these stocks would not pay dividends, although they knew that buying stocks would not win management power, and although each shareholder could only subscribe to two hundred shares during the third financing, this still could not stop their enthusiasm and users. The residents of the city showed 100% loyalty, continuing the ancient and long-lasting passes year after year, and supporting the team wholeheartedly.

In 1997 and 2012, the team conducted its fourth and fifth financings, but the main group of stocks was still local residents of Green Bay.

In this city, every inhabitant flows with the blood of the forest green, and has been passed down from generation to generation.

Those residents who hold the team's stocks always continue from generation to generation in the form of inheritance, using their own strength to keep the team competitive and fully support this team connected with their blood with their actions. This is a team with fascinating fan culture.

In the contemporary era where interests are paramount, this is a maverick team.

Green Bay Packers are one of the founding members of the National Football Federation (NFC). As of the century-long history that Lu Yiqi knows, the team has won thirteen league championships, ranking first in the entire league in this data, of which nine times come from the pre-Super Bowl era and four times come from the post-Super Bowl era.

Even if we only count the Super Bowl era, in just fifty-three years, the Green Bay Packers have made it into the playoffs, 18 division championships, and have four Super Bowl championship trophys. All of this is enough to make this team a top ranks, building an indispensable first echelon in the NFL with teams such as Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, New England Patriots, New York Giants and other teams.

There are countless glory and ups and downs about this team, with peaks and troughs throughout. They have one of the greatest coaches in the history of the league, Wendy Longbottom, who led the Green Bay Packers to win the first and second Super Bowls, and even the Super Bowl Championship trophy is named after him.

They also have Brett-Favre, one of the greatest quarterbacks in league history. Although he only has a Super Bowl championship trophy, he has most of the league's quarterback records, passing yards, passing touchdowns, regular season MVP times, regular season wins, total wins, and so on.

As of 2007, most of the quarterback's data records were under Favre's name, and many of them were even considered to be peaks that could never be surpassed.

It was not until seven years later that they were gradually overtaken by the "greatest" alternate players Payton Manning, Tom Brady, Drew Brees and others, climbing one incredible quarterback peak after another.

After 2010, the four elite quarterbacks in the league gradually formed a leading group advantage. In addition to the above three players, the fourth youngest Aaron Rodgers is the starting quarterback of the Green Bay Packers.

In addition, the Green Bay Packers have a total of 30 Hall of Fame players, second only to the thirty-fourths in the entire league, the Chicago Bears, who are arch-rivaled in the same district.

Needless to say, this is one of the most important teams in the league and remains strongly competitive after the millennium.

When he learned that the Green Bay Packers had officially sent an interview invitation to Lu Yiqi, it was no wonder that Augustus could not suppress his excitement and danced.

Even Lu Yiqi himself is no exception.

Drive slowly into Green Bay, and the snow-covered town spreads in front of you. The tranquility and peace during the offseason make this land look like a paradise, but it can still find traces through the ubiquitous packer logo. Rugby is a part of life.

Slowly, the Blue Castle Stadium came into view.

Bang bang bang bang.

Involuntarily, my heart began to beat violently, hitting my chest hard. The excitement and excitement burst out in an instant made my fingertips slightly tighten.

Strictly speaking, this is Lu Yiqi's first official interview - the previous interview at Michigan State University was just a formality, and Kansas State University was just a telephone interview; the first time I had to face a professional team, and I was a Green Bay Packer, so my emotions were really hard to suppress.

Is the dream coming true?
Chapter completed!