About the Acme Packers Art
The painting of an
Acme Packer (later to become the Green
Bay Packers) was created by sports artist John Robertson for the remodel of the
suites area of Lambeau Field, the football stadium for the Green Bay Packers. The new remodel of the suites and club level
using art was installed in
Green Bay. The rest of my artwork (eight pieces) is
displayed on the suite and club levels of Lambeau Field, which means it is not
available to other fans on a regular basis.
July, 2017. The painting is approximately 4 feet by 7
feet, acrylic on stretched canvas.
Although the Acme Packers never played a game in the snow it seemed
appropriate to the player in the snow because of the well known winters of
About the Acme Packer football team
The Acme Packers was one of the Packers name before they
became the
Green Bay Packers. In 1919
and 1920 there was a packing company where Curly Lambeau was working named
Indian Packing. Curly was a player and coach and first coach of the, soon to
become, Green Bay Packers professional football team. The Indian Packing company was bought out by
a
Chicago
packing company called Acme Packing and the two companies became one. The Indian Packers had the football team and
Acme changed the name to the Acme Packers.
As the team was not actually owned by Acme Packing but by a couple of
the executives of the packing company.
Through a variety of financial changes the team was eventually (in a
couple of years) named the Green Bay Packers and became part of the NFL. Curly Lambeau was the head coach of the
Packers from 1920 to 1949.
Original sports paintings are available from my studio or on
commission.
