Lambeau Field
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Guide Note: Lambeau Field is the home stadium of the NFL's Green Bay Packers. Originally opened in 1957 as City Stadium. Informally Known as New City Stadium. Renamed in 1965 for the Packers founder E.L. (Curly) Lambeau following his death in June. Nick named "The Frozen Tundra".
Fast Facts:
- Location:1265 Lombardi Avenue Green Bay, WI 54307
- Broke ground:1955
- Opened:1957
- Owner:City of Green Bay and Green Bay/Brown County Professional Football Stadium District (operated/maintained by the team)
- Surface:a natural grass surface reinforced with man-made fibers
- Capacity:72,928
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- 1955: the Packer Corporation tells Green Bay City Council that it wants a new stadium.
- 1956:Voters OK new City Stadium.
- 1957:New City Stadium, with a capacity of 32,150, is dedicated on Sept. 29. Vice President Richard Nixon attends the game. The Packers beat the Bears 21-17
- 1960:Sold out for the season, forever! All season tickets are sold out for the first time and have been ever since.
- 1961:The first Vince Lombardi-era NFL title. Stadium capacity is increased to 38,669.
- 1965:E.L. “Curly” Lambeau dies in Sturgeon Bay on June 1. City Stadium is renamed Lambeau Field. Seating capacity is increased to 50,852.
- 1967: Heating coils are installed under the playing surface, but they fail to work on Dec. 31 as the Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 in the Ice Bowl, the coldest recorded game in NFL history.
- 1978: The city of Green Bay becomes the owner of Lambeau Field as the original mortgage is paid off. The Packers pass 400,000 in home attendance for the first time.
- 1982:Packers are beaten by the Detroit Lions 30-10 on Dec. 12. It is the only regular-season game at Lambeau Field that season because of the NFL players’ strike.
- 1990: Capacity is increased to 59,543 with the addition of 36 luxury boxes and 1,920 club seats in the south end zone.
- 1993: The Lambeau Leap is born when safety LeRoy Butler tries jumping into the stands after returning a fumble for a touchdown in a December game against the Los Angeles Raiders.
- 1994: Lambeau Field is adorned with the names of Packers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and dates of the Packers’ 11 NFL championships.
- 1995: The Milwaukee portion of the movable football feast ends. For the first time since 1933, the Packers play all their home games in Green Bay.
- 1996: With a price tag more than three times what it cost originally to build the stadium in 1957, new scoreboards are added for $3.5 million.
- 1997: New $1 million playing surface is installed. It includes heating, drainage and irrigation systems.
- 1998: The Packers raise more than $24 million in a stock sale and commit the proceeds to improvements to Lambeau Field and player training facilities.
- 1999: Renovation halted.The team puts on hold a major renovation of Lambeau Field, saying it can’t afford it, given the rising cost of staying competitive. Packers President Bob Harlan says a new stadium may be needed within a decade. Fans press for another look at renovation.
- 2000: Harlan announces plan to renovate Lambeau Field for $295 million, funded largely by a 0.5 percent Brown County sales tax and a seat license fee paid by season-ticket holders. An atrium would be built to accommodate year-round use of the facility.
- 2001: Work on the renovation begins in January, but the official groundbreaking is delayed until May 19 in deference to warmer weather. As part of the ceremonies, 872 people form a semicircle from the south end zone to the 50-yard line for a group hug, coming just short of a world record for group-hug participants but raising almost $30,000 for Special Olympics.
- 2002: The preseason welcomes fans to a new-look Lambeau Field. The luxury boxes are finished, the upper and lower concourses are open except on the north end, and the Atrium forms a new main entrance to the stadium, although many of the Atrium’s amenities will await the 2003 season.
- 2003: A weeklong series of festivities is planned to mark the stadium’s rededication. The fully renovated Lambeau Field is scheduled to host its first regular-season game on Sept. 7, against the Minnesota Vikings.
- 2006: the Packers completed their 50th year at Lambeau, tying the all-time NFL occupancy record set by the Chicago Bears at Wrigley Field (1921-1970)
- 2007: New Field installed: the top level of the field system is 12 inches of root-zone sand and Kentucky bluegrass turf with DD GrassMaster synthetic fibers are stitched into the surface, providing strength and stability to the field.
- 2007: Field heating system installed: contains more than 30 miles of radiant heating pipe, which can maintain a root-zone temperature of 55-plus degrees to keep the ground from freezing during the season's latter months.
- 2007: the Packers will begin their NFL record 51st season at the stadium.-Green Bay kicks off its 89th season in franchise history Sunday - its 87th as a member of the National Football League - by welcoming the Philadelphia Eagles to historic Lambeau Field on Sept. 9, 2007.
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