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January 29, 2008

By way of Can’t Stop The Bleeding, here’s a story that will make you thankful that the Green Bay Packers are a community-owned team.
Seattle SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett the other night got heckled — actually, not even that — by a fan at KeyArena. Shortly afterwards, the fan, a season ticket holder named Sam Kidder, […]

January 25, 2008

This is the last week on the job for Bob Harlan. He’s been Packers chairman and CEO since 1989, almost 19 years on the job. That’s pretty amazing for anyone in any profession, but really amazing given the high-pressure demands of running an NFL franchise.
There aren’t many teams that can claim such long-lasting and stable […]

November 28, 2007

Both the Journal Sentinel and the Press-Gazette are reporting today some interesting developments in the Packers search for a new team president. Both papers say that the search committee is zeroing in on Northwestern University athletic director Mark Murphy, with the Green Bay paper going so far as to say that contract negotiations have started […]

July 26, 2007

Packers training camp finally gets underway this Saturday, which means the start of the NFL regular season is just a little more than a month away: Thank you, sweet baby Jebus. Having rounded the final turn and headed down the stretch, there’s been a lot going on in Green Bay this week, from rookies signing […]

July 21, 2007

Yesterday the Green Bay Packers officially accepted the resignation of president John Jones and started its search for a successor for outgoing CEO Bob Harlan. According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the team agreed to pay Jones the full value of his three-year contract, a settlement of about $2.7 million.
The official announcement should end months […]

July 2, 2006

I came across an interesting thread at Football Outsiders the other day discussing a column at SI.com by Mike Silver ranking the team owners in the NFL. (Yes, it is definitely the dog days of summer when making a list of billionaires passes as journalism.) To cut to the meat of the article, Patriots owner […]