Green Bay the third largest city in the state of Wisconsin, its located at an bay with the same name as the city. The Green Bay (the actual bay) is an arm of Lake Michigan which French explorers discovered in the end of the 17th century. The first French there named the bay "la baie des Puants" literary "the bay of stinkerds", given by their native guides to insult an tribe that lived in the area. Later French visitors were perplexed by the name and its origin, the thought its derived from the smell of swamps. So they changed it to Baie Verte and when English take over they translated the name to Green Bay. The city has an population of around 105 thousand and with all suburbs together its has around 320 thousand people. By American standards Green Bay is considered an small town and this one has something famous and unique for this kind of city. That things is an professional sports team and in this case an American Football franchise of the NFL. Also unique this is the only North American sports team that owned by the fans and its totally an non-profit organisation. Founded in 1919 the Green Bay Packers are one of the successful NFL-teams with 13 league championsships, which of them are four Superbowl victories. The legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers Vince Lombardi is honored which Superbowl trophy is named after him. So lets take an look at the flag.
The flag has an upper green part which is divided by an narrow wavy white line, the lower part is blue. Those colors represented the land and water of the Green Bay area, the water has in spring an blue-green color. In the center the seal of Green Bay. The flag is adopted in 2004 the year of Green Bay 150th birthday, this is the year of incorporation but the city is actually much older since 1634. The big no of vexillologists the words and numbers says, City of Green Bay and the year of found 1854. Also the Green Bay Packers logo is on it, think this the only flag in the world with an sports team logo on it. Above the "G" logo you see an tower-like thing which represented manufacturing. On the seal they added an extra text, Titletown, U.S.A. because of the many titles of the Packers. Typical city flag but not that busy, get rid of the text and swap the tower and the "G" and its better.
The flag has an upper green part which is divided by an narrow wavy white line, the lower part is blue. Those colors represented the land and water of the Green Bay area, the water has in spring an blue-green color. In the center the seal of Green Bay. The flag is adopted in 2004 the year of Green Bay 150th birthday, this is the year of incorporation but the city is actually much older since 1634. The big no of vexillologists the words and numbers says, City of Green Bay and the year of found 1854. Also the Green Bay Packers logo is on it, think this the only flag in the world with an sports team logo on it. Above the "G" logo you see an tower-like thing which represented manufacturing. On the seal they added an extra text, Titletown, U.S.A. because of the many titles of the Packers. Typical city flag but not that busy, get rid of the text and swap the tower and the "G" and its better.
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