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‘Today, You Can Walk Around Like You Own the Place.’

The Green Bay Packers are the only N.F.L. team whose fans can buy an ownership stake. Their annual shareholders meeting is part pep rally, part window into the league’s finances.

Packers fan/owners receive no dividends from and cannot trade their shares. They attended the annual shareholders meeting at Lambeau Field in July.Credit...Andy Manis for The New York Times

GREEN BAY, Wis. — It takes a certain type of Packers fan to tailgate outside Lambeau Field at sunrise months before the team’s season kicks off. But Tom Rozum isn’t an ordinary fan: He’s a Packers shareholder who last month was preparing to attend the team’s annual shareholder meeting, a rite unique to the N.