The Green Bay Packers are the only non-profit, community-owned franchise in American professional sports major leagues. Typically, a team is owned by one person, partnership, or corporate entity, i.e., a "team owner." The lack of a dominant owner has been stated as one of the reasons the Green Bay Packers have never been moved from the city of Green Bay, a city of only 102,313 people as of the 2000 census.
Packers "owners" are not paid dividends for their "stock" and many of them can't even afford season tickets. It's a community pride and a way of keeping professional football in a market that wouldn't be looked at, by the wealthy NFL owners.
I wonder how many of the Conservative anti-socialism types will be rooting for the Pack this weekend.
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