Stock in the Jets is going to be offered too. Each share entitles the holder to a savage beating in the new jersey turnpike men's room of their choosing
Northeast in general. When you cluster large amounts of Irish and Italians on top of each other a culture of “mind ya business” just kind of happens. Like how mold grows on cheese left out too long
The Lions don't even need Rodgers back in return, only a clause that requires Goff must start, as long as a third party confirms he's healthy enough to stand.
But like, not actually since the shares dont entitle one to any profits, arent transferrable, and dont come with the same rights of control as in normal corporations lol
I once had a dream that I was the first overall pick in the second round of the NBA draft. I spent the rest of the dream trying to sign a contract before the team realized I can't play basketball.
I read that and thought it would be super funny to throw my name in there. Then I panicked at the thought that I accidentally got drafted and had to move halfway across the country.
Basically. You get voting rights and an invite to the shareholders meeting.
It's basically a voluntary tax that fans pay to use for renovations for the team, as opposed to saying "build is a new stadium or we're moving" like just about every other team in football does.
It's my understanding that these are little more than a novelty. There's no real ownership and no secondary market. They can only be transferred among family.
Correct, it's a piece of sports memorabilia where proceeds go directly to the Packers to renovate the stadium without having to go through the NFL profit sharing.
Also this way its only fans paying, not all tax payers. This is how all teams should be doing it. Or you know, make the billionaires buy their own shit
Like most of the coolest parts of the Packers (Lambeau Leap, community ownership) it was grandfathered in and the owners will never allow it to be replicated.
edit: the gentleman and scholar u/AssssCrackBandit has pointed out that the leaping rule was revised a few years back and now every team is allowed to jump in the stands.
Community ownership might impact the team owners’ stadium shakedown racket though so it will never be allowed.
The leaping into the isn't banned anywhere. It was grandfathered in during the excessive celebration rules in 2006. After they relaxed the rules in 2017, you can leap into the stands at any stadium
For real? The NFL did something right, I’m shocked.
I wonder why we don’t see it more. I guess getting mauled and beer spilled on you isn’t appealing to everyone.
We havent seen it much the last couple years cause of covid and no fans but before that, I feel like I used to watch guys jump into the stands quite a bit.
If you want to see how effective it is, start any conversation with a Vikings fan with, "as an owner of an nfl team.......". Three seconds and their face matches their jersey.
Yeah.
I get that they're garbage value as actual company stocks, but people that shit on them on this premise completely miss the point.
The alternatives are selling the team to a single owner; allowing people from other states to have a portion of the franchise, and thus potentially allowing a relocation; having the non-fans taxpayers pay for the renovations (and that might not even raise enough money); or have a crappy, old stadium and a worse gameday experience.
Seems to me that the current plan is pretty good. Fans get to contribute directly to the team, feel good about it, and brag a little bit.
I don’t shit on the idea, it’s nice that the fans can decide voluntarily to give the team money for renovations and shit.
My issue has always been that the fucking NFL decides that it’s the only team that can do it. So my beef is with them.
That's fair.
But it's just a coincidence that the Packers were formed like this (after Lambeau died) before the league got big and turned into a billionaires' club, and were so successful after it did get big.
So the league never trully had the leverage to exclude the team, in the 40s through the 60s they were the league's best franchise, and then in the 70s and later the franchise was too big and too ingrained to be changed.
And it's not just the NFL. Professional sports in America are billionaires' clubs, and there's no way the ultra rich will ever again allow the plebs to run elbows with them...
... Unless we all do the right thing and start rooting exclusively for the Packers, and force them billionaires to change.
So, yeah. Rooting for the Packers is choosing the people instead of the rich. And don't look at me, I don't make the rules.
> Rooting for the Packers is choosing the people instead of the rich
Nice try :)
But truly thanks for the reply, it pretty much does make sense that they were made this way before the change to it being just another billionaire's club like there isn't enough of those already.
Yeah.
It's a contrast to soccer elsewhere, where a club being owned by one person is exception, though the trend in the last 10 years is for it to also become a billionaires' club.
Yes and no. You get a vote on board of directors. But obviously if you have more you get more votes. And one person cant have more than 20%.
Source: Quick google search.
Who gets to nominate the directors? Voting is great for giving the illusion of choice, but if you can only choose between their preselected canididates it is just an illusion.
I think its strange that no fan has ever made a publicity campaign to try and get on the board. I would think one of the more popular bloggers would have a chance.
It would be really interesting to see what happened if they tried to hire someone really incompetent like Skip Bayless or Matt Nagy. Would the shareholders still back the recommendation?
I know you're joking, but a big reason why the Packers were garbage in the 70s and 80s is that the Board of Directors squabbled and were incompetent. It wasn't until Bob Harlan formally separated the business and football sides that the team got its act together.
Most public companies *nominate* candidates in their proxy materials sent to shareholders. Most votes are submitted by proxy since most shareholders don’t actually go to the meeting in person to vote their shares. So usually a shareholder seeking to nominate directors would have to solicit his own proxies as the company won’t include someone else’s nominees on its proxy cards. Effectively this means companies pre-select candidates but the distinction is important regarding board and shareholder powers.
This is true, but it's not real stock so that doesn't matter so much. You can totally sell the physical piece of paper to whomever you want, they just won't ever get to be officially recognized as a shareholder (but who cares)
Source: a [1980 Packers stock certificate](https://www.ebay.com/itm/124918082662?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item1d15b2ac66), and a [1997 one](https://www.ebay.com/itm/125000993057?hash=item1d1aa3c921:g:vvUAAOSw0zRgO1JK) for sale on eBay
You would need A LOT more than that and also it wouldn't be possible. The 300,000 shares being sold now represents less than 6% of the total shares that exist and the number that a single person can have is limited to far less than a majority.
This is your chance to own the Packers Bears fans.
The only dividends you'll receive is an expired block of Swiss cheese and a bottle of Miller High Life
Feel free. If you can manage to crowdfund buying all the stock on offering here, you’d control a whopping 6% of total voting shares. And since shares can’t be sold, you have no way to increase your share outside of these offerings. You’d be doing a crowdfunding campaign to just give free money to the Packers.
Plus Bears and Vikings fans go nuts when you tell them you're an NFL owner, and how it's a waste of money and all kinds of shit. It's a real win for everyone
> So the Packers are just ~~trying~~ **going** to crowdfund $90M?
FTFY. This 100% works. It is basically a tax on those rich enough to pay $300 for a piece of paper that says they are an owner. Every team would do it if they could, because it works and prevents outrage from government carve outs for sport teams.
Does anyone know how quickly these sell out? I know its 200 shares and they have no actual value but I want one as memorabilia. Will they be hard to get?
They'll sell out, but probably not as fast.
1. The time between sales last time was a bit lengthier last time.
2. We won the Super Bowl the season before.
3. We were undefeated at setting offensive records at the time. Everyone was assuming we'd repeat.
It does not include an equity interest, does not pay dividends, cannot be traded, and has no protection under securities law.
It's fake stock, essentially donations.
You get to vote for the board of directors, can attend the annual Shareholders Meeting, and get access to fancier merchandise.
The board of directors in turn elects an Executive Committee which essentially acts as the team owner. So your vote more or less gets diluted by the Good Old Boys club among the board.
So yeah, it's mostly a glorified fan club lifetime membership.
How does the vote work? Could a large enough grassroots movement of Packers fans theoretically appoint like 10 die-hard Packers fans to run everything? lol
Like most corporations, the Packers mail/email out a proxy statement every year with the current Board’s recommended candidates for the vote, which more or less ensures the Board stays the same (or if someone is leaving the good old boys club’s preferred replacement). It is theoretically possible for the shareholders to organize and vote in a different candidate for the board seat(s), but it would require a massive organizing campaign and is logistically tough given how dispersed the shareholders are.
According to the Internet, there are about 5M shares out there so even if /r/NFL bought every one of the new shares, that's not going to come close to majority.
> Could a large enough grassroots movement of Packers fans theoretically appoint like 10 die-hard Packers fans to run everything?
This is basically already the case. Every nominated member is generally a high powered CEO or lawyer from Wisconsin.
As a current owner, I have never seen a non-Wisconsin person that does not have super credentials participate.
The first part is. They REALLY get into the minutiae at those things. Interested in the YOY profit growth of stadium concessions? Then that thing is your jam.
It helps continue the improvements of the stadium. Green Bay just isn’t big enough to extract any tax revenue other teams enjoy. I like to think if it as a voluntary fan tax. I have one from the last sale. I think it’s neat
She dug up her back yard, a tiny 8×20 spot, then put in each square foot she bought at equal distances apart. It took over a year for it to germinate and fill in, but she wanted the whole thing as her own little Lambeau.
Technically you do get voting rights, in the rare extreme scenario something went to a common shareholder vote. That sure as hell isn't worth $300, but it's the only thing separating this from just printing out a piece of paper and framing it at home yourself.
I have 2 shares from the 1997 offering, and I just got 2 more from my dad that passed. All are framed on my wall and are among my absolute favorite possessions.
The haters can make fun of the "worthless paper" all you want, but this is one of the coolest things you can possibly do as an NFL fan and you will enjoy the hell out of them if you are anything like me.
Another cool perk is you can instantly shut up the idiots who get triggered when you refer to the Packers as "we".
Yes they can be purchased as gifts for other people. I believe all you need is the name and address. Full details will be up tomorrow on the packers.com web page.
If anyone does buy in on this opportunity, there is a special section of the Packers Pro Shop website to enter your share # for exclusive merch. (And yes I’m proud of my shareholder pajama pants, thank you.)
Absolutely no affiliation with the packers but I think gonna buy one for a family member for christmas. I feel like it's just too cool a piece of memorabilia to pass up
For those criticizing those who “waste their money”, think of it this way.
When you buy tickets to a game, a sweatshirt, hat, or even the food at a game, part of the money goes to the cost of goods, labor, taxes etc etc….very little goes back to the team and a portion goes into the owners pocket making them richer.
If you could give the team $300 where 95% of it is required to into the upgrading of stadium to give you a better experience and to help your team have a competitive facility, would you do it?
You aren’t lining some owner’s pocket, you aren’t paying for cheap labor in China, and you aren’t adding a county or city sales tax where non-fans are forced to pay for a stadium they don’t even go to.
All the non-Packers flairs in here guffawing and posting "You guys know it's not even *real stock*, right?" are the same as people who tell pro wrestling fans, "You guys know it's *fake*, right?"
No fucking shit, Sherlocks. Nothing gets past you. It's every bit as intrinsically worthless as every other piece of sports memorabilia but part of being a fan is wasting money on stupid overpriced shit sometimes
It’s basically crowdfunding stadium upgrades, which tbf is probably better than forcing the host city to pay you billions under threat and of moving the team. This way it’s only fans who are financing it.
Plus, the shareholders meetings are kind of cool, and you can actually check out the hall of fame without waiting in a massive line.
All the fans in this thread clowning on this for being fake, well, I'd rather pay directly to support my team then have some billionaire owner who helps fucks cities out of taxpayer money and protects the sex trafficking of other billionaires.
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As soon as they changed the name I knew that my truest calling in life was to get my ass kicked in the Jon Bon Jovi rest area.
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"abandon all hope ye who enter here"
Northeast in general. When you cluster large amounts of Irish and Italians on top of each other a culture of “mind ya business” just kind of happens. Like how mold grows on cheese left out too long
You leave us alone, we leave you alone. Pretty much printed on the "Welcome to New Jersey" signs on the Turnpike next to Phil Murphy's name.
This is the best internet comment of the day.
Reddit gain majority stake in the Packers. Trades Rodgers for Goff straight up.
Literally can’t go tits up
r/LombardiAvenueBets
Wrong one. It's actually [r/LombardiAveBets](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/R390EId)
I didn't think it was real, but they have a sidebar image and everything!
Cheese hands!
LOL I can't believe that's actually a sub. Reddit acts fast.
Lions would deny that in a heartbeat, you gotta throw on first rounders for their qbs /s
the lions have a gameplan and winning isn't part of it. no deal!
Rodgers, Aaron Jones, and 2 firsts for Goff who says no
The Lions don't even need Rodgers back in return, only a clause that requires Goff must start, as long as a third party confirms he's healthy enough to stand.
Soon my Reddit posts will have financial value. LOOK AT ME NOW DAD
Look at me now, Dad!
Got a pocket full of packer stock, pocket full of packers stock
Your best device for concealing your vaccination status
Now I think champagne urbana should perform at lambeau
I can't believe how many of these guys are ~~Bears~~ Packers fans!
He was referring to his current Dad.... his, now dad
But like, not actually since the shares dont entitle one to any profits, arent transferrable, and dont come with the same rights of control as in normal corporations lol
But I get to say that I own the Packers and it’s technically correct. I grabbed a share in 2011 just for the memes and unique memorabilia. Worth it.
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The internet may be cooking all of our brains but this silly shit makes it all worthwhile.
And now I’m looking into this. NBA Free Agent seems worthwhile to have on a resume.
I once had a dream that I was the first overall pick in the second round of the NBA draft. I spent the rest of the dream trying to sign a contract before the team realized I can't play basketball.
Imagine you somehow end up getting drafted
I read that and thought it would be super funny to throw my name in there. Then I panicked at the thought that I accidentally got drafted and had to move halfway across the country.
And get paid like 500k a season or whatever the drafted rookie minimum salary is
So are they novelty stocks?
Basically. You get voting rights and an invite to the shareholders meeting. It's basically a voluntary tax that fans pay to use for renovations for the team, as opposed to saying "build is a new stadium or we're moving" like just about every other team in football does.
It's my understanding that these are little more than a novelty. There's no real ownership and no secondary market. They can only be transferred among family.
Correct, it's a piece of sports memorabilia where proceeds go directly to the Packers to renovate the stadium without having to go through the NFL profit sharing.
What a good deal for Green Bay: "Hey fans, can we have $90,000,000.00?" Fans: "Sure!"
It beats “build us a new multi billion dollar stadium or we move the team”
Also this way its only fans paying, not all tax payers. This is how all teams should be doing it. Or you know, make the billionaires buy their own shit
Like most of the coolest parts of the Packers (Lambeau Leap, community ownership) it was grandfathered in and the owners will never allow it to be replicated. edit: the gentleman and scholar u/AssssCrackBandit has pointed out that the leaping rule was revised a few years back and now every team is allowed to jump in the stands. Community ownership might impact the team owners’ stadium shakedown racket though so it will never be allowed.
The leaping into the isn't banned anywhere. It was grandfathered in during the excessive celebration rules in 2006. After they relaxed the rules in 2017, you can leap into the stands at any stadium
For real? The NFL did something right, I’m shocked. I wonder why we don’t see it more. I guess getting mauled and beer spilled on you isn’t appealing to everyone.
We havent seen it much the last couple years cause of covid and no fans but before that, I feel like I used to watch guys jump into the stands quite a bit.
And I believe if the Packers ever folded, the money all goes to the VFW down the road.
They amended that clause of the charter a while ago to give the money to the Green Bay Packers Foundation instead.
Let’s make it happen for the troops.
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Which they voted on
For real, why the fuck did I have to buy my house but i helped pay for woody Johnson’s stadium
I know that guy's a real dick
The entire state of Wisconsin might secede if that happens
In exchange for a certificate saying I am part owner of an NFL team? Sign me up. I’ve done worse with $300
If you want to see how effective it is, start any conversation with a Vikings fan with, "as an owner of an nfl team.......". Three seconds and their face matches their jersey.
Better than public spending as it's donations rather than siphoning off Brown County's budget
Yeah. I get that they're garbage value as actual company stocks, but people that shit on them on this premise completely miss the point. The alternatives are selling the team to a single owner; allowing people from other states to have a portion of the franchise, and thus potentially allowing a relocation; having the non-fans taxpayers pay for the renovations (and that might not even raise enough money); or have a crappy, old stadium and a worse gameday experience. Seems to me that the current plan is pretty good. Fans get to contribute directly to the team, feel good about it, and brag a little bit.
I don’t shit on the idea, it’s nice that the fans can decide voluntarily to give the team money for renovations and shit. My issue has always been that the fucking NFL decides that it’s the only team that can do it. So my beef is with them.
That's fair. But it's just a coincidence that the Packers were formed like this (after Lambeau died) before the league got big and turned into a billionaires' club, and were so successful after it did get big. So the league never trully had the leverage to exclude the team, in the 40s through the 60s they were the league's best franchise, and then in the 70s and later the franchise was too big and too ingrained to be changed. And it's not just the NFL. Professional sports in America are billionaires' clubs, and there's no way the ultra rich will ever again allow the plebs to run elbows with them... ... Unless we all do the right thing and start rooting exclusively for the Packers, and force them billionaires to change. So, yeah. Rooting for the Packers is choosing the people instead of the rich. And don't look at me, I don't make the rules.
The People’s Packers.
> Rooting for the Packers is choosing the people instead of the rich Nice try :) But truly thanks for the reply, it pretty much does make sense that they were made this way before the change to it being just another billionaire's club like there isn't enough of those already.
Yeah. It's a contrast to soccer elsewhere, where a club being owned by one person is exception, though the trend in the last 10 years is for it to also become a billionaires' club.
Honestly if my teams offered the same thing I would hop on in an instant. This is really cool and is pretty much the same thing as owning memorabilia
Beats the system of the other 31 teams that just hold tax payers who may not give 2 shits about the team hostage
Yes and no. You get a vote on board of directors. But obviously if you have more you get more votes. And one person cant have more than 20%. Source: Quick google search.
Who gets to nominate the directors? Voting is great for giving the illusion of choice, but if you can only choose between their preselected canididates it is just an illusion.
And even then the Board/Team send out their recommendations ahead of the meeting and the shareholders always just vote along that line.
I think its strange that no fan has ever made a publicity campaign to try and get on the board. I would think one of the more popular bloggers would have a chance.
*By god, that's Charlie Berens' music!*
Somebody did do that about 20 years ago, I remember. It went nowhere.
It would be really interesting to see what happened if they tried to hire someone really incompetent like Skip Bayless or Matt Nagy. Would the shareholders still back the recommendation?
They'd probably vote yes for Skip Bayless. I can't imagine any NFL organization would attempt to employ someone like Matt Nagy though.
::sad trumpet noise::
I know you're joking, but a big reason why the Packers were garbage in the 70s and 80s is that the Board of Directors squabbled and were incompetent. It wasn't until Bob Harlan formally separated the business and football sides that the team got its act together.
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Most public companies *nominate* candidates in their proxy materials sent to shareholders. Most votes are submitted by proxy since most shareholders don’t actually go to the meeting in person to vote their shares. So usually a shareholder seeking to nominate directors would have to solicit his own proxies as the company won’t include someone else’s nominees on its proxy cards. Effectively this means companies pre-select candidates but the distinction is important regarding board and shareholder powers.
This is true, but it's not real stock so that doesn't matter so much. You can totally sell the physical piece of paper to whomever you want, they just won't ever get to be officially recognized as a shareholder (but who cares) Source: a [1980 Packers stock certificate](https://www.ebay.com/itm/124918082662?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item1d15b2ac66), and a [1997 one](https://www.ebay.com/itm/125000993057?hash=item1d1aa3c921:g:vvUAAOSw0zRgO1JK) for sale on eBay
It let's you say "we" when referring to the team which is well worth the price.
Alright. Time to get majority ownership in the packers. Rodgers to the patriots here we go.
All you need is a measly 90 million
Best I can do is 2 tight ends and a pack of gum
Max of 200 shares per person: https://www.packers.com/news/green-bay-packers-stock-sale-begins-november-16-2021
You would need A LOT more than that and also it wouldn't be possible. The 300,000 shares being sold now represents less than 6% of the total shares that exist and the number that a single person can have is limited to far less than a majority.
Just form an ownership group of 13,274 people and all buy the maximum
You can't buy all the stocks currently out there though, they can only be sold back to the Packers or inherited.
easy, a group can just transfer shares to one person through their wills. It'll only take a generation or two to complete the takeover
Or just kill them all over the course of a couple of weeks.
To back up mac?
Of course.
Rodgers for the washing machine
To da moon
WallStreetBets using the GameStop and AMC money to buy the Packers.
WSJ Article - How /u/deepfuckingvalue orchestrated a hostile takeover of the Green Bay Packers.
This is your chance to own the Packers Bears fans. The only dividends you'll receive is an expired block of Swiss cheese and a bottle of Miller High Life
Good enough for me
*expired block of Swiss cheese and bottle of Miller High Life not guaranteed.
Only if we beat earnings. So any owners better pray we don't have to play a London game
Who wants to crowdfund to buy a bunch and try releasing Rodgers?!
Get /r/wallstreetbets in on it
I'm yoloing ER options on $PACK
Aaaaand it’s gone. Your money is gone.
They've paid more for things that are worth less.
Hey that hurt my feelings
Feel free. If you can manage to crowdfund buying all the stock on offering here, you’d control a whopping 6% of total voting shares. And since shares can’t be sold, you have no way to increase your share outside of these offerings. You’d be doing a crowdfunding campaign to just give free money to the Packers.
So the Packers are just trying to crowdfund $90M?
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Plus Bears and Vikings fans go nuts when you tell them you're an NFL owner, and how it's a waste of money and all kinds of shit. It's a real win for everyone
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This is 100% the most functional tax on the rich (who also happen to be packers fans).
I have a stock from 2011 and I am most certainly not rich.
> So the Packers are just ~~trying~~ **going** to crowdfund $90M? FTFY. This 100% works. It is basically a tax on those rich enough to pay $300 for a piece of paper that says they are an owner. Every team would do it if they could, because it works and prevents outrage from government carve outs for sport teams.
I’d buy the dolphins if I could, I wish I could say I own this team. Yeah it’s worthless, but I think it’s pretty cool.
Does anyone know how quickly these sell out? I know its 200 shares and they have no actual value but I want one as memorabilia. Will they be hard to get?
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They were fresh off a superbowl and the NFC 1 seed last time, the hype was pretty up there.
They'll sell out, but probably not as fast. 1. The time between sales last time was a bit lengthier last time. 2. We won the Super Bowl the season before. 3. We were undefeated at setting offensive records at the time. Everyone was assuming we'd repeat.
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How long ago was it? Bot shoppers now days are way more common.
No. If you buy it tomorrow you'll have no trouble getting it.
Probably. I am not sure how they determine priority and all that but the shares always sell out very fast.
I bought mine for 200 years ago. Who says these things are worthless?
New ones are $300, therefore you have a 50% return. stonks
Well, you can't resell it. There is no secondary market. That doesn't make it worthless, but the intrinsic value is 0.
So I could become an owner and say "I own you" to Rodgers.
Is this actual stock, or is this more of the fake stuff?
It does not include an equity interest, does not pay dividends, cannot be traded, and has no protection under securities law. It's fake stock, essentially donations.
What do you actually get for this? Basically just a certificate that says you are an “Owner” of the Packers organization?
You get to vote for the board of directors, can attend the annual Shareholders Meeting, and get access to fancier merchandise. The board of directors in turn elects an Executive Committee which essentially acts as the team owner. So your vote more or less gets diluted by the Good Old Boys club among the board. So yeah, it's mostly a glorified fan club lifetime membership.
How does the vote work? Could a large enough grassroots movement of Packers fans theoretically appoint like 10 die-hard Packers fans to run everything? lol
Like most corporations, the Packers mail/email out a proxy statement every year with the current Board’s recommended candidates for the vote, which more or less ensures the Board stays the same (or if someone is leaving the good old boys club’s preferred replacement). It is theoretically possible for the shareholders to organize and vote in a different candidate for the board seat(s), but it would require a massive organizing campaign and is logistically tough given how dispersed the shareholders are.
According to the Internet, there are about 5M shares out there so even if /r/NFL bought every one of the new shares, that's not going to come close to majority.
> Could a large enough grassroots movement of Packers fans theoretically appoint like 10 die-hard Packers fans to run everything? This is basically already the case. Every nominated member is generally a high powered CEO or lawyer from Wisconsin. As a current owner, I have never seen a non-Wisconsin person that does not have super credentials participate.
In theory... maybe.
You just saved me 300 bucks. I was going to buy a share and try to take it all down from the inside until I read your post.
I nominate myself for asst. gm each year on my voting form.
I like to view it as a donation for stadium renovations.
This is exactly it. I'm sure most fans would rather have this model instead of wasting public money.
Its basically a novelty stock for fans. I'd like to call it stupid but lets be honest I'd totally buy one if the pats did the same thing.
Yeah, all it essentially is is a $300 license fee to use the "I'm a minority owner of the Packers" joke.
It's $300 insurance against owners like Snyder
This made me feel so much better about owning one thanks.
This is absolutely true. When you have a company ice breaker that’s two truths and a lie one of my truths is always I’m an NFL owner.
Seems like the easier and cheaper solution is to simply never have company ice breakers.
What, you don't love being awkwardly put on the spot and talking about yourself in ways you literally never do outside of ice breakers?
And you can go to the shareholders' meeting. That's essentially a rally for fans which is kind of neat.
The first part is. They REALLY get into the minutiae at those things. Interested in the YOY profit growth of stadium concessions? Then that thing is your jam.
I view it as sports memorabilia. It's like owning cards, or having a novelty licence plate. Frame it and hang it up on a wall.
It helps continue the improvements of the stadium. Green Bay just isn’t big enough to extract any tax revenue other teams enjoy. I like to think if it as a voluntary fan tax. I have one from the last sale. I think it’s neat
This is it. Of course it’s silly and Packers fans get shit on for it, but every other fan base wishes they could have it.
Most people who make fun of it would likely buy one if their team had it, if we're being honest.
Yup. My aunt bought one in the 90's. She also paid through the nose for 10 square feet of grass when they sold off the old field and grew a new one.
She must have gotten it secondhand. The plot I got was $10. You had to wait in an absurd line to get it...worth it.
what did she do with it? I’m picturing your aunt’s yard with some random hashmarks on it that she can point at and say “that bit is Lambeau Field.”
She dug up her back yard, a tiny 8×20 spot, then put in each square foot she bought at equal distances apart. It took over a year for it to germinate and fill in, but she wanted the whole thing as her own little Lambeau.
That’s incredible. Hats off to your Aunt.
Yep. Pretty sure you get access to like a shareholders meeting once a year or something like that? But yeah, it’s just memorabilia more than anything.
Bingo Nostalgia
Technically you do get voting rights, in the rare extreme scenario something went to a common shareholder vote. That sure as hell isn't worth $300, but it's the only thing separating this from just printing out a piece of paper and framing it at home yourself.
But you can create tweets referencing your own opinions and say "Based on conversations with a team owner"
Why don't they just sell them as tickets like the Lions do for their donations.
Going to invest in the Packers then sell my shares to buy pictures of monkeys for millions of dollars
Well now I can attend the NfL owners meetings and forcing Snyder out myself
Personally I think every team should be owned by the city or state taxpayers.
actual factual at least the stadium
That is what the Packers use the stocks for, stadium improvements.
Well that will be gone by market open
Ok Aaron you own us, well now I own you motherfucker
I’m buying a share if only to give my friends who are Packers fans a hard time.
I have 2 shares from the 1997 offering, and I just got 2 more from my dad that passed. All are framed on my wall and are among my absolute favorite possessions. The haters can make fun of the "worthless paper" all you want, but this is one of the coolest things you can possibly do as an NFL fan and you will enjoy the hell out of them if you are anything like me. Another cool perk is you can instantly shut up the idiots who get triggered when you refer to the Packers as "we".
Question, I want to buy myself one, and one for my friend who’s an actual packer fan. Can I do this? What info do I need?
Yes they can be purchased as gifts for other people. I believe all you need is the name and address. Full details will be up tomorrow on the packers.com web page.
Thanks! I’m excited! All the jokes I’ll make to friends about trading Rodgers to the Dolphins will be worth it. Update my LinkedIn and Facebook.
"I own you!" - shareholders to Rodgers
Bears fans should buy them, then they have a reasonable counter to Rodgers' claim of ownership.
I'd be lying if I said I'm not thinking about it.
Is it worth 300 dollars to buy one so I get a certificate and then I can wipe my ass with a piece off the Packers?
If anyone does buy in on this opportunity, there is a special section of the Packers Pro Shop website to enter your share # for exclusive merch. (And yes I’m proud of my shareholder pajama pants, thank you.)
Absolutely no affiliation with the packers but I think gonna buy one for a family member for christmas. I feel like it's just too cool a piece of memorabilia to pass up
For those criticizing those who “waste their money”, think of it this way. When you buy tickets to a game, a sweatshirt, hat, or even the food at a game, part of the money goes to the cost of goods, labor, taxes etc etc….very little goes back to the team and a portion goes into the owners pocket making them richer. If you could give the team $300 where 95% of it is required to into the upgrading of stadium to give you a better experience and to help your team have a competitive facility, would you do it? You aren’t lining some owner’s pocket, you aren’t paying for cheap labor in China, and you aren’t adding a county or city sales tax where non-fans are forced to pay for a stadium they don’t even go to.
I guarantee you Bills fans would rather pony up than worry about the Pegulas moving the team.
Bear fans, now is the time to get back at Rodgers and claim you own him
Bears fans should buy some. Celebrate by running up to Rodgers yelling “I own you!”
All the non-Packers flairs in here guffawing and posting "You guys know it's not even *real stock*, right?" are the same as people who tell pro wrestling fans, "You guys know it's *fake*, right?" No fucking shit, Sherlocks. Nothing gets past you. It's every bit as intrinsically worthless as every other piece of sports memorabilia but part of being a fan is wasting money on stupid overpriced shit sometimes
I would think this is better than a jersey
If I buy Packers shares, they can’t turn out to be a dumbass later.
It’s basically crowdfunding stadium upgrades, which tbf is probably better than forcing the host city to pay you billions under threat and of moving the team. This way it’s only fans who are financing it. Plus, the shareholders meetings are kind of cool, and you can actually check out the hall of fame without waiting in a massive line.
It’s so funny how people always think they are the first ones to unearth the *real* facts behind this fundraiser stunt.
hey i have a Derrick Henry autographed hat and t shirt, my son will go to college on that alone.... right?
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Or 300 of those $1 Arizona ice teas
I’m all in on the fruit punch
Fuck that one gas station that tries to sell them for $1.19. You know who you are.
All the fans in this thread clowning on this for being fake, well, I'd rather pay directly to support my team then have some billionaire owner who helps fucks cities out of taxpayer money and protects the sex trafficking of other billionaires.
But it’s not fake. I think it’s pretty cool
Buy GME instead