How 538,967 'owners' -- and one president -- run the Packers

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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- There is nobody more powerful in the Green Bay Packers' organization than the team president. Yet when Bob Harlan held that post for 19 years and oversaw the franchise's return to glory in the 1990s, he never masqueraded as Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft or any other wealthy NFL owner.

And he made sure no one who worked at 1265 Lombardi Ave. did either.

"I always told the people on our staff: 'Every time somebody calls this organization, remember they own the team, we don't,'" Harlan recalled recently.

And there are 538,967 of them who might pick up the phone at any time and dial 920-569-7500.

Whether it's Harlan from 1989…