I'm pretty sure that the Green Bay Packers are in fact a publicly-owned non-profit corporation. A share in the Packers is not the same as a share of common (or

I'm pretty sure that the Green Bay Packers are in fact a publicly-owned non-profit corporation. A share in the Packers is not the same as a share of common (or preferred) stock, but it is a share in ownership that actually matters. It's very easy to prove this: the Packers have remained in the smallest market in all of North American major professional sports for over a century. They stay there because all those "little play votes" matter.