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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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