runs theive committee team. owned by shareholders. nonprofit. 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