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Lambeau Field
Dedicated: Sept. 29, 1957, Green Bay 21, Chicago Bears 17.
Capacity: 72,515 in 2003, 65,290 to 66,110 in 2002, 60,890 in 2001, 32,500 in 1957 (original)
Original name: "City Stadium" (new City Stadium)
Original Cost: $960,000 (paid off in 1978)
Renamed: Rededicated as Lambeau Field Sept. 11, 1965, following death of Curly Lambeau the previous June.
Owner: City of Green Bay and Green Bay/Brown County Professional Football Stadium District (operated/maintained by the team).
Field: Includes 100 percent Kentucky bluegrass surface, on top of a 3-5 inch soil foundation (Level 2), covered with 8-inch holes filled with sand, to maintain the grass during rain and snow. Level 3 has 10 inches of sand; on top of a heating pipe network. Level 4 is a 4-inch base of pea gravel.
Soil Warming System: Installed in 1997 to replace original system, put in by Vince Lombardi for 1967 season (failed during the Ice Bowl); current system contains more than 30 miles of radiant heating pipe, which maintains a root-zone temperature of 70-plus degrees during winter months.
Location: 1265 Lombardi Ave., southwest Green Bay.
NFL Championship Games: Three (1961, 1965 and 1967).
Packers All-Time Lambeau Record (1957-2002):
Regular Season: 140-82-4 (.628)
Postseason: 11-1-0 (.917)
Overall: 151-83-4 (.643)
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