In 1919 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Earl Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun founded a new American football team. To achieve this, they secured a significant sponsorship from the Indian Packing Company, a meat packaging company, with the condition that the sponsor's name would be included in the team's name, thus creating the Green Bay Packers. They entered the American Professional Football Association (APFA) in 1921, which was renamed to the National Football League (NFL) one year later. In the late 1920s, the Packers formed a team that won the NFL championship for three consecutive years (1929-1931). They are actually the only team that repeated this feat for a second time in history during the period of 1965-1967. Going back in time, the Packers won three more NFL championships (1936, 1939, 1944) before their competitive decline that lasted until 1959 when Vince Lombardi arrived as head coach and general manager. Under Lombardi, the Packers reached their peak with five NFL championships (1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967) and two Super Bowl championships (1966-1967) (during the period of 1966-1969, the Super Bowl was played between the NFL and AFL champions). After the merger of the two championships, the Packers went through a long period of decline until 1993 when they started making consecutive appearances in the playoffs. The acquisition of quarterback Brett Favre played a crucial role in their resurgence, as they went on to win the Super Bowl in 1996 and reached the finals again the following year only to be defeated by the 49ers. In 2008, with Favre gone, the Packers turned to Aaron Rodgers, who quickly lived up to expectations by leading the Packers to the Super Bowl in 2010, where they defeated the Steelers to claim their most recent title to date.