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[edit] July 20 - September 24, 2006
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Lambeau Field has been the home stadium of the Green Bay Packers, pictured supra, of the National Football League since its erection in 1957, one year after the residents of the city of Green Bay, the owner of the stadium, approved the issuance of municipal bonds toward its construction as a replacement to City Stadium. The stadium, known as New City Stadium until the death of the team's co-founder, president, and former head coach, Curly Lambeau, prior to the 1965 season, has undergone several periods of renovation during its life, most notably between 2001 and 2003 when a $295 million project included the expansion of club seating and luxury suite facilities; the seating capacity of the stadium has increased from 32,500 to 72,601.
The bowl-shaped stadium surrounds a Kentucky bluegrass playing field, pictured infra, often referred to as the Frozen Tundra, in view of the field's natural grass nature and the cold climate of northern Wisconsin; the latter was typified by the 1967 NFL championship game, won by the Packers, 21-17, over the Dallas Cowboys on a quarterback sneak executed by Bart Starr, and known as the Ice Bowl, during which temperatures reached -13° Fahrenheit (-25° Celsius) and wind chills reached -48 °Fahrenheit (-44 °Celsius). In part because of the cold and snowy weather opponents often confronted and because of the rabidity of attending fans, the stadium conferred an advantage on the Packers, who did not lose a playoff game between the 1957 and 2001 seasons, amassing 12 wins during a period in which they won the 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, and 1967 NFL championships and Super Bowls I, II, and XXXI.
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[edit] July 5 to July 20, 2006
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The Rose Bowl, one of just four American football stadia to have been designated by the United States Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark, a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb Pasadena, California, United States, is best known for hosting annually an eponymous National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I bowl game and concomitant Tournament of Roses Parade and for having hosted by iterations of the National Football League's championship game.
Opened in 1922, the stadium saw its first Rose Bowl the next year and hosted the matchup between the champions of the Pacific Ten and Big Ten Conferences each year from 1947 to 1998. In 1998, the Rose Bowl game joined the Bowl Championship Series and the stadium has since hosted various elite teams; in January 2006, the BCS title game ending the 2005 season was contested at the Rose Bowl, as the University of Texas, in a contest described by many television commentators as the best championship game ever, claimed a three-point victory over the University of Southern California.
Between 1967 and 1971, the Pasadena Bowl, matching top junior college teams and often referred to as a junior Rose Bowl, was held at the stadium in the weeks prior to the Rose Bowl game. The stadium has also served as the home field for the University of California-Los Angeles Bruins football team since 1982, and has been the venue for Super Bowls XI, XIV, XVII, XXI, and XXVII; the stadium also plans a bid to host Super Bowl XLV, to be played in 2011, following the 2010 NFL regular season.
[edit] June 18 to July 5, 2006
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Jim Thorpe, who also played professional baseball for three seasons with the New York Giants and won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the Games of the V Olympiad, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, was a successful American football player at both the collegiate (playing for Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School, he captured All-America honors in 1911 and 1912, playing as a running back, defensive back, placekicker, and punter) and professional (playing over his career for six teams, Thorpe led the Canton Bulldogs to regular season success) levels. While still playing with the Bulldogs, Thorpe served as president of the American Professional Football Association, helping to engineer the league's 1923 merger with the National Football League, in which league he played for four seasons. For his achievements, Thorpe was inducted into the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame and was named, as a running back, to the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team.
[edit] May 28 to June 18, 2006
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Nile Kinnick, a quarterback, placekicker, and punter for the University of Iowa, won the 1939 Heisman Memorial Trophy and the Walter Camp and Maxwell Awards but elected to pursue a career in law and politics rather than to play professional football. In 1942, during World War II, Kinnick joined the United States Navy as a fighter pilot; on June 2, 1943, while on a training flight in the Gulf of Paria, Kinnick experienced engine trouble and crashed in the Atlantic Ocean; his body was never recovered. In 1972, the University of Iowa renamed its football field for Kinnick, and since then the coin flipped prior to every Big Ten Conference football game has borne Kinnick's image.
[edit] March 4 to May 28, 2006
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Founders of the Oakland Raiders.
[edit] February 26 to March 4, 2006
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Super Bowl XI ticket and ring
