LAMBEAU FIELD

The Green Bay Packers of the NFL’s NFC North division play their home games at “The Frozen Tundra” of Lambeau Field, located at 1265 Lombardi Avenue, Green Bay, WI 54307. Lambeau Field has been home to some of the most important and historic games in NFL history including the first NFL Championship game in Green Bay and the famous “Ice Bowl” of December 1967 where the temperatures dipped to 13 degrees below zero. The Green Bay Packers played at East Stadium from 1920-1952 when they moved into the new County Stadium in Milwaukee that would also play host to the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball. The city of Green Bay allowed the team to build a new stadium in 1957. That stadium, City Stadium, only took one year to build and cost $960,000. The opening capacity at that time was around 32,500.

In 1965, the Packers changed the name of the stadium to Lambeau Field after the death of Packers founder, E.L. Lambeau. Over the years, Since then, the Packers have been regularly increasing the seating capacity. The bowl was increased from 42,327 in 1963 to 50,852 in 1965 and to 56,263 in 1970, when the stadium was fully enclosed for the first time as the various stands were joined into one continuous oval around the field. Construction of 72 private boxes in 1985 increased the seating capacity to 56,926, and a 1990 addition of 36 additional boxes and 1,920 theatre-style club seats brought the number to 59,543. In 1995, a $4.7-million project put 90 more private boxes in the previously open north end zone, again giving the stadium the feel of a complete bowl and increasing capacity to 60,890.

Lambeau Field has so much history, the team and city felt it was better to fix what they had than build a new stadium. The project took 32 months and cost the taxpayers and the team a combined $295 million. Beginning in the 2000 season, the Packers began a huge scale renovation project and the project was completed in time for the 2003 season.The massive redevelopment plan was designed to update the facilities, a new fan concourse and atrium and new facilities for the team including a new locker room, new administrative offices, and a new football operations facility. Yet preserve the seating bowl, keeping the storied natural grass playing field of the "frozen tundra," and adding more premium and suite seating, and 12,000 seats were also added around the top of the stadium increasing the seating capacity to 72,928.

It was to be paid for partly by the team via the 1997-98 stock sale, which netted more than $20 million. Most of the proceeds were to be paid through a 0.5% sales tax in Brown County and personal seat license fees on season ticket holders. Construction management was conducted by Turner Construction Sports, and proved to be of remarkably little disruption to the 2001 and 2002 seasons.

The Packers have now been tenants at Lambeau Field longer than any other NFL team has occupied its own current stadium. In 2007, the Packers completed their 51st season at Lambeau, surpassing the all-time NFL occupancy record set by the Chicago Bears at Wrigley Field (1921–70). (While Soldier Field in Chicago has been the site of a football stadium longer, it was not the home of the Bears until 1971.) Only the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley can boast of longer active home-field tenures in American professional sports.

During the 2007 season, Lambeau Field was voted the number one NFL stadium in game-day atmosphere and fan experience by a Sports Illustrated online poll.Through the 2009 season, the Packers have compiled a 182-106-4 (.631) regular season mark at Lambeau Field.

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