This Sunday’s throwback uniforms – based on those worn by the 1923 Green Bay Packers – weren’t a random choice by the NFL’s only publicly-owned team. In fact, 1923 might have been the most important year in the franchise’s history.
Why? It wasn’t because the team went 7-2-1 in just its fourth season. And it wasn’t that it was the Packers’ first season playing at its new home, Bellevue Park, either. Nor was it because it’s the first time the Chicago Bears traveled to Green Bay for a game (the Packers lost, 3-0).
Nope. It’s an important choice because 1923 is the year in which the Packers originally became the publicly-owned team we know today.