Which is the most "classic" team in the NFL?

Question

The one with more history or tradition...

Answer 1

Bears and Packers

Answer 2

Hard question to answer. Considering pro football did not originate with the NFL. Nor is today's NFL the same NFL that started in the early 1900's. If you look at the entire history (from the beginning to today) the most "classic" and storied franchise has to be the Green Bay Packers. Not only were they one of the first teams in the original NFL, but they were considered the first "dynasty" in the NFL. Also today's Super Bowl trophy is named after their coach Vince Lombardi. On top of that they are still around and have won a recent Super Bowl. If it isn't the Packers I dont know who it is.

Answer 3

The Packers and, Bears have, been around since the beginning(1920). the Giants, came in in 1925. the Cardinals, who were then the Chicago Cardinals came in next but, I'm not sure of what year. a lot of the original teams only lasted a few years. there were the Rock Island Independents and, the Canton Bulldogs, among others. read about it at NFL.com go to the hall of fame page.
P.S. the other teams mentioned here came in much later. the Cowboys, didn't come in until 1961.

Answer 4

Green Bay Packers
On Aug. 11, 1919, a score or more husky young athletes, called together by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun, gathered in the dingy editorial room of the old Green Bay Press-Gazette building on Cherry Street and organized a football team. They didn't know it, but that was the beginning of the incredible saga of the Green Bay Packers.

Lambeau and Calhoun struck the initial spark a few weeks before, during a casual street-corner conversation. It was apparently a "Why not get up a football team?" remark, but once they were interested they wasted no time.

First they talked Lambeau's employer -- a war-time industry called the Indian Packing Company, where he worked as a shipping clerk for $250/month -- into putting up money for jerseys.


Curly Lambeau
Because the company provided jerseys and permitted the use of its athletic field for practice, the club was identified in its early publicity as a project of the company. With this tie-in the name "Packers" was a natural, and Packers they have been ever since, although the Indian Packing Company had practically faded out of the picture before that first season was half over.

That first season the team won 10 and lost only one, against foes from Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Games were played in an open field with no fences or bleachers, and interested fans "passed the hat." But the team was so successful by 1921 that Lambeau was backed by two officials of the packing plant in obtaining a franchise (Aug. 27, 1921) in the new national pro football league that had been formed in 1920. Cash customers didn't quite pay the freight and the team had to be forfeited at year's end.

This was the first in a long series of troubles that the now famous team overcame, for in 1922 Lambeau gained other backers and bought the franchise back for $250, including $50 of his own money. Troubles continued during that season. One game was rained out and the insurance company wouldn't pay off because the official amount of rain was one one-hundredth of an inch short of that required in the policy.

However, another storm late in the season, when the Packers were scheduled to play the Duluth Kelleys, threatened to throw Lambeau further into debt. But A.B. Turnbull, Green Bay Press-Gazette general manager, advanced Lambeau the Duluth guarantee. He then lobbied town businessmen ("The Hungry Five") behind the team, and formed the Green Bay Football Corporation.

From those modest and somewhat tenuous beginnings, the Packers have gone on to earn national stature and virtual world-wide recognition by winning more championships (12) over the intervening 80-plus years than any team in pro football.

These achievements, while representing a town of approximately 100,000 in competition with the country's largest markets, have endeared the Packers to the nation. The David vs. Goliath concept and the team's unique status as a publicly owned corporation has intrigued generations.

The Packers' colorful saga spans 88 years from the "Iron Man" period of the first decade under founder Lambeau, to the present day, which finds Mike McCarthy presiding as the team's 14th head coach.



Green Bay Packers - 1919


Chapter 1: The Iron Man Era


Clarke Hinkle
With good financial backing, Lambeau picked up college stars from all over the country, plus some unknowns who turned out to be "greats." In 1929, tiny Green Bay won the first of three straight national professional football championships, pacing stalwarts from New York and Chicago in league standings (the playoff system began in 1933). The 1929-31 title teams featured all-time pro greats like Red Dunn, Verne Lewellen, Cal Hubbard, Bo Molenda, Jug Earp, Mike Michalske, Johnny (Blood) McNally, Bill Kern, Arnie Herber, Clarke Hinkle, Lavvie Dilweg, Tom Nash, Milt Gantenbein and Hank Bruder. In many games, players would play for almost the full 60 minutes. These teams were hailed all over the country as some of the greatest ever.

Answer 5

The Cowboys!! They are the most classy classic team with the greatest fans in the world!!
The Cowboys came in 1960 and have the greatest fans, achievements and fan base in the world. The idiots who said steelers are crazy. The steelers have never had talent nor class in anything theyhave ever done!
And never listen to a giant fan...if they knew anything they would not be going for the giants to begin with!

Answer 6

Probably the Bears and the Packers. The Cards deserve honorable mention, but they've moved around a bit, but they are one of the oldest teams, from when they were the Chicago Cardinals.

Answer 7

Chicago Bears

Answer 8

Cowboys

Answer 9

the Cowboys of the early 90's
or the Steelers of the 70's

Answer 10

Jbonham03 said it perfectly!

Yes, it is the Green Bay Packers!