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nobody wants to call anything. they are going to confer and see what they're going to do here. >> the movies of hollywood are about new rockne, cinderella man, raging bull, you name it. i do not think any of those stories beat the stories of the green bay packers. the true story is better than the men. one of the aspects of it is david versus goliath. and the fact that the packers made a name for themselves by beating teams from new york and chicago when this was a city of under 40,000 people. -- dy >> nobody had any clue that what they were creating in 1918 would evolve into what it is today. the story goes, they drafted rockne. he wanted to play football. he did not have a team to play for. at thethe sports editor

local newspaper and suggested they get up a city team, and from there the packers were created with the packing plant sponsoring them. they were sponsored by the packing company for their first season. in 1920, indian packing and 10 you to have a role with the team. indianng that season, packing sold out to acme packing, which was based in chicago. when the franchise was granted in 1921 by the nfl, it was granted to the acme packers, but -- acme packet and packet company may have done nothing more than purchased a few uniforms and by the end of muchseason, they pretty passed from the seeming green bay. what was interesting was, when the packers were admitted to the nfl in 1921, they were the

second smallest city in a population of about 30,000. even though the leak at that time was largely comprised of small cities. the smallest city was on a wanted, new york. essentially the packers have been the smallest team in the nfl since the beginning. a 45-man board of directors. runs theive committee team. owned by shareholders. nonprofit. in 1923.at came about after the disastrous 1922 season where there were private corporations that ran the team. the executives on the executive committee still are community leaders. at the beginning, those community leaders had other jobs, including the president. so, most of the people who took the lead to see to it this

ran lucrativeived businesses, corporations and the community. there was more attention paid to the packers than some of the other cities in the early nfl, and that was part of the reason survival.ckers' i know paul broun at one point said the packers were the only team that owned a newspaper because they were so closely tied to be green bay press for so many years. 25, 30 years, 40 years -- he played a big role in the team's survival. the first president of the packers was also one of three owners, a publisher of the green bay press gazette. there was a very close connection between the two. they did not necessarily outdraw a lot of the other teams located

from smaller cities. in fact, they struggled to draw a crowd. there was a high school rivalry in the city between green bay east and green bay west high school. they often out the packer games. they had to compete between those two high school teams and east-west through the packers to their game in 1920. a lot of rabid fans here, but it was not until they were filling be stadiums. green bay in the early years probably drew better on the road than it did at home. part of that being because of the high school rivalry between east and west. part of it was just the size of the city. but fortunately, opposing owners, players, and coaches love coming here in the 1920's. and his colleagues

wrote in the history of the national football league that s they lovereason coming here was this was a homey city. ♪ there were speakeasies open all over downtown. fans could go to after games, maybe before games, and there were also red light districts in the neighboring towns, that whoever could go out and enjoy whatever they had to offer. that was the reason so many loved to come here. casting want to go aspersions on the president of the national football league and i think a very upstanding, moral, religious man. but when he brought a columbus team here in 1922, they drew a very sparse route because of the

heavy rainstorm in green bay. yet when he left town, they talked about how much the traveling party loved green bay, love the opportunity to play football. i am guessing that played a part of it. was a member of the citizens of green bay him up with after they clinched their first championship under bensalem party. they were due to play the new york giants at what was then called city stadium. it was the first time green bay was going to host an nfl championship game. they had won six championships during the early years, but they never played a full season game with green bay. part of it was the size of the stadium. partly because of the playoffs system and how it worked back them. wonlly championships were before there were championship games.

i still think that came might have produced more genuine excitement and enthusiasm than any game in the history of the packers. the breakfast at the beaumont of members ofr the community decided they were going to call this title town for the next month and schedule festivities of to the championship game. the packers beat them in just a dominant performance and lived up to that title town name and it just stuck. basicallywas perpetually on his deathbed, one crisis after another. that time has passed. i am guessing if you put your name on a season-ticket waiting list today, maybe your great-grandson or daughter will get tickets 50-some or more years from now? the wait list is extensive and

there has been one since the 1950's. i do not think there are too -- the city basically shuts down on sundays. here, they are watching on television. traditionally, april do not go to work on fridays. when the packers win on monday a lot more work gets done at local businesses. they have not lost a lot for the last 25 years. one thing that the packers probably take more pride in than anything, not only has this team survived, but it has been more successful. 13 nflve one championships, more than any other nfl franchise. if i was speaking to someone who would never heard of the team, i would say have you ever heard of the national football league? are then bay packers

most successful team. ♪ >> sign delaware c-span's local content vehicles are going next online at www.c-span.org/lo calcontent. americanatching history tv. all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. "reel america" ring to archival films about the 20th century. 27,0 years ago on october 1964, future president ronald reagan delivered a 20 minute campaign speech for republican presidential candidate barry goldwater. reagan's launch political career, despite the

fact that goldwater lost to president lyndon johnson in a landslide. [applause] >> federal employees number 2.5 million and federal, state and local, one out of six of the nation's workforce. these proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. how many of us realize that federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant, and pose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone jury?-- trial by in chico, arkansas, james ware over planted his rice. the government obtained a $17,000 judgment and the u.s. marshals sold his farm at auction. the government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work. [applause] last february 19, at the

university of minnesota, norman thomas, six time candidate for president on the socialist party ticket said if barry goldwater became president, he would stop the advance of socialism in the united states. i think that is exactly what he will do. [applause] but as a former democrat, i can tell you norman thomas is not the only man who is drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration. it goes back to 1936. mr. democrat himself, i'll smith, the great american came before the american people and charged the leadership of his party was taking his party down the road of marx, lenin, and stalin. he walked away from his party and never returned until the day he died. because to this day, the leadership of that party has taken that on a roll party down the road in the labor socialist part