Jay Lav

Happiness isn't getting everything you want, it is loving what you have. GO PACK GO 🧀🍻.

[Matthew S. @MatthewMKE98]

Keisean Nixon is officially in midseason form man

GET HIM OFF THE TEAM

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY: 107 years ago today, a 21 year old shipping clerk talked his boss into giving him $500 for football uniforms.

That meat company went out of business two years later.

Its name is still on the field every Sunday.

August 11, 1919. Green Bay, Wisconsin. Population around 15,000.

A group of local athletes crowd into the editorial room of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Most of them are former high school players from Green Bay East and West.

Two men called the meeting.

Earl "Curly" Lambeau was 21. He'd been a standout at Green Bay East, then went to Notre Dame and made Knute Rockne's varsity team as a freshman, before a brutal case of tonsillitis ended it and sent him home.

He needed a job, so he took one as a shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Company, a canned meat outfit.

But he still wanted to play football.

The other man was George Whitney Calhoun, the city editor at the Press-Gazette. A newspaperman who could put anything he wanted in front of the entire town.

They'd been talking about it all summer. Calhoun started running ads in his own paper inviting players to show up.

Then Lambeau went to his boss and asked for money.

The Indian Packing Company gave him $500 for uniforms and equipment, plus use of the company athletic field. There was one condition.

The team had to carry the company's name.

Two days later, the Press-Gazette referred to them in print as the Packers for the first time.

That's it. That's the whole origin. A canned meat sponsorship agreement.

They played home games at Hagemeister Park, which had no real seating. Fans stood along the sidelines and passed a hat around to pay the players.

They went 10-1 that first season.

In 1921 they joined the league that would become the NFL. They immediately went broke and forfeited the franchise, and Lambeau had to scramble to find new backers to get it back.

Meanwhile the Indian Packing Company was already gone. Sold to Acme Packing, and out of existence by 1921.

The sponsor lasted about two years. The name has lasted 107.

And the rest of it is the most improbable story in American sports.

Green Bay is the smallest market in the entire NFL, by an enormous margin, in a league where every other small market team folded or moved decades ago. The Duluth Eskimos. The Pottsville Maroons. The Canton Bulldogs. All gone.

The Packers survived because in 1923 they did something no other team has ever done. They sold shares to the public and became a community owned, non profit corporation.

No billionaire owner. No threat to relocate. The fans literally own the team.

That's why they're still there.

Thirteen NFL championships, more than any franchise in history. Four Super Bowls. Curly Lambeau won six titles as coach before he resigned in 1949, and the stadium carries his name. Vince Lombardi won five in seven years, and the Super Bowl trophy carries his.

Don Hutson. Bart Starr. Reggie White. Brett Favre. Aaron Rodgers.

All of it traces back to a 21 year old with tonsillitis asking a meatpacking plant for uniform money on this day in 1919.

The oldest team name still in use in the NFL belongs to a company that has not existed since Woodrow Wilson was president.

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[Nostalgic Gamer @16bitnostalgia]

Remember in FIFA when you could run away from the ref trying to give you a yellow card? Good times!

[Jay Lav @Jay_Lav02]

@VigilantFox This is gold

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tom Brady reveals the overlooked reason practice squad players never succeed in the NFL

It’s not a lack of talent.

Brady watched it happen for 20 years. The pattern was undeniable.

As soon as a practice squad player got promoted and had to perform under real pressure, they crumbled. It took years for Brady to understand why.

“There’s 53 guys on the active roster and there’s now 15 guys on the practice squad. So there’s 68 players. But those practice squad players are important because if anybody on the active roster gets hurt, they can get elevated to the squad.”

“These scout team receivers would come in and practice with the scout team and they do really well. And I’d be watching. I’m like, ‘Man, we got to get that guy. Let’s get him up on offense. He’s making a lot of plays.’”

“Then all of a sudden, we’re like, ‘Hey man, you’re doing really well. You got to come over here and deal with the pressure of succeeding now that you have expectation.’”

“And these guys are like, they weren’t prepared for it. So whatever we saw in practice against where there was not a lot of pressure, now when they’re put in a situation where there’s an expectation for performance, they’ve never had to personally deal with that and then they fail.”

“And then what I realized was a lot of guys on those practice squads, they don’t want to be elevated to the roster.”

“They’re very happy living this life where they could tell their family and friends, which I have no problem with that. But the reality is a lot of guys don’t want the pressure of dealing with top.”

Twenty years in the league and seven Super Bowl rings later, Brady learned that talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find.

It was people who actually wanted the pressure that comes with being great.

[Big Trouble Ben Bishop @bigtroubleBB]

Imagine having no clue who skeletor is or what Masters of the universe is, and seeing this outside your bedroom window

[Jay Lav @Jay_Lav02]

@MLFootball He's fucking tiny

[Relax @iamRELAX]

In light of the Mike Vrabel news⬇️

Matt Lafleur:

• No scandals
• No arrests
• No drama
• No allegations

just straight up dogshit situational play calling 🔥

[World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball]

BRYCE HARPER TIES THE GAME FOR TEAM USA!

[Jay Lav @Jay_Lav02]

Join me on Polymarket https://t.co/bB03erE4DZ

[Jay Lav @Jay_Lav02]

@chasing6figures Likewise I deleted telegram when you left would love the invite back please!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Solving Rubik’s Cubes, while juggling them.

[Jay Lav @Jay_Lav02]

@ajdillon7 Any chance I can get this baby signed for my 🧀 shrine?!?

[Matt Wallace @MattWallace888]

James Van Der Beek’s final message to the world is one of the most powerful things I have ever heard. Stop whatever you are doing and listen to this! 🥺

[nosa ! @nosaputyouon]

The Fall Off drops tomorrow, let’s take a moment to acknowledge THE best LA Leakers freestyle from J Cole himself 🔥

[Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde]

🤯

[karma @karma44921039]

The Great Awakening!
Waking up from the Matrix, here we go!

[Jacob Morley @JacobMorley]

Watch til the end.

Watching Pete Carroll celebrate like he actually caught that ball is the most infuriating thing about this.

[Sam Monson @SamMonsonNFL]

I don't understand how the Cooks thing today can be called an INT and this Loveland play be ruled an incomplete pass by the same set of rules:

Neither play does the ball hit the ground.

https://t.co/Cd7nXBRsbz

[Will Blackmon @WillBlackmon]

Prime opp for a game changing punch out