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Article: SPORT: Green Bay still proving that small is beautiful Vic Ziegel visits the home of the Packers as Super Bowl fever arrives in Wisconsin
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- January 26, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THERE is a kind of
fairy-tale quality to the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, whose
thriving economy includes the professional American football team
expected to win today's Super Bowl and several factories devoted to
the manufacture of toilet paper.
The population of Green Bay is a mere 96,000, by far the smallest
city supporting any American team in any professional sport. That
means every man, woman and child, each one wearing the popular
triangular-shaped foam-rubber Cheeseheads - Wisconsin is the land
of cheese - could find a seat in the larger American football
stadiums.
There is no professional team in Los Angeles, America's largest
city, and the two teams that call themselves New York ...