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Green Bay is the principal city of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area, which covers Brown, Kewaunee, and Oconto Counties and had a combined population of 282,599 at the 2000 census. The 2008 estimated population of the Green Bay metropolitan area is 302,935. Green Bay is an industrial city with several meatpacking and paper plants, and a port on the bay of Green Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan. It is home to the National Railroad Museum; the Neville Public Museum, with exhibitions of art, history, and science; and the University of Wisconsin � Green Bay. The Green Bay Packers professional football team was formed in the city in 1919 and joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1921. Green Bay is by far the smallest market with an NFL team, although the Packers are avidly supported in the larger Milwaukee market and throughout Wisconsin and in Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Green Bay is unofficially nicknamed "Titletown, USA" for the number of NFL titles (13) it has won over the years (including the first two Super Bowls and two further victories in later years like in 1997 and 2011). The name appears on the city seal, is used by the Green Bay Chamber of Commerce for its web address, and variations of the word appear in the name of more than two dozen local businesses. Green Bay has been awarded the title of All-America City twice, in 1964, and 1999. |
![The story behind the Wisconsin middle school fight posted on YouTube. ---- WLUK's Monica Landeros reports. [FEB 2009] ________________________ GREEN BAY — Several Franklin Middle School students received citations for disorderly conduct after fights videotaped at and near the school appeared online. Green Bay Police are stepping up patrols after the three fights, which occurred over the past month, Franklin Principal Matt Weller said Thursday. The fights were posted on the YouTube Web site. Two of the incidents occurred off school grounds, while a third happened in a restroom at the middle school. All were staged, Weller said. "Because it's on tape, it may become exciting to kids who know better," he said, "and the appeal of getting involved in that kind of illegal activity might spread into kids who just plain know better, and know how to stay away from those things, usually." Eight Franklin students were disciplined in connection with the fights, district spokeswoman Amanda Brooker said. Two of the videos were taken with a cell phone, the other with a regular camera, Weller said. Students in two of the fights were cited for disorderly conduct, and officials expected students from the other fight would be cited soon, Green Bay Police Lt. Todd Leider said late Thursday morning. The videos are an easy way to identify involved students, he said. "If a kid wants to videotape it, thank you," Leider said. "It makes our job easier. They gave us the best piece of evidence we can <b>...</b>](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W02eN3g-qEc/0.jpg)
