This Day in Packers History

Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun founded the team on August 11, 1919 after Indian Packing Company put up 500 dollars for uniforms - the sponsor's name deal that became the Packers.

Craig Newsome forced a fumble and made an interception in Super Bowl XXXI, then his promising Packers career was cut short by injury after just four seasons.

Bill Forester endured the Packers' franchise-worst one-win season in 1958, then became a defensive captain on Lombardi's championship defenses that shut out New York 37-0.

On July 30, 1957, future Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lee Ivery was born in McDuffie County, Georgia. A consensus All-American at Georgia Tech in 1978 who finished 8th in the Heisman voting, Ivery set the NCAA Division I-A single-game rushing record — 356 yards against Air Force on Nov. 11, 1978 — a mark that still stands. Green Bay took him in the first round (15th overall) of the 1979 NFL Draft. Serious knee injuries repeatedly interrupted his career, but he kept rehabbing and returning, playing parts of nine seasons (1979–1987) in green and gold before a long second life as a Georgia Tech Hall of Famer and strength coach.

Dave Robinson was an outside linebacker at the heart of the Lombardi dynasty — three straight NFL titles (1965–1967), the first two Super Bowls, and twenty-one interceptions as a Packer — and it was his goal-line pressure on Don Meredith in the 1966 NFL Championship that forced the Tom Brown interception which sent Green Bay to the very first Super Bowl. Yet Canton made him wait nearly forty years: Robinson was finally elected as a Seniors Committee nominee and enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame on August 3, 2013, at age 72.

Ed West was born August 2, 1961, in Leeds, Alabama, and played his college football at Auburn. No N-F-L team drafted him. Green Bay signed him in 1984, and he turned into one of the franchise's most durable do-everything role players — a tight end who blocked, caught, and simply kept showing up. He played more than 200 NFL games across 14 seasons (1984–1997); Green Bay was his first and longest home, roughly a decade (1984–1994), before shorter stops in Philadelphia and Atlanta. The nickname says it all: the Toolbox — the reliable utility man you reach for every single day.

A fifth-round rookie handed the loneliest job on the offensive line: snap to Aaron Rodgers, perfectly, every down. Corey Linsley started as a rookie and became First-Team All-Pro seven seasons later.

Cleveland drafted Willie Davis 181st overall and gave up on him. Green Bay turned that throw-in into a Hall of Fame captain and five NFL titles under Vince Lombardi.

On July 22, 1975, Emlen Tunnell died at age 50. The Giants pioneer and record-setting interception king closed his career with a second championship ring in Green Bay under Lombardi.

July 23 is Jarrett Bush's birthday - the undrafted Utah State free agent whose 2nd-quarter interception of Ben Roethlisberger in Super Bowl XLV set up the touchdown drive that broke the game open.