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- Updated: July 22, 2016
7:42 PM ET
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers’ brain trust had plenty of built-in applause lines during Thursday morning’s annual shareholders meeting at Lambeau Field.
General manager Ted Thompson merely had to mention Aaron Rodgers’ name to get the crowd of 8,200 to hoot and holler. President/CEO Mark Murphy simply had to show a replay of Rodgers’ 61-yard Hail Mary pass that beat the Detroit Lions — and went on to win NFL play of the year and an ESPY as the best play in all of sports — to bring the team’s “owners” to their feet.
News of a bacon-centric concession stand at Lambeau Field was met with thunderous applause at the Packers’ annual shareholders meeting. Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
But those reactions weren’t any louder than the one Mike Weller, the chairman of the executive board’s marketing committee, generated with one word: bacon.
Weller’s …
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