Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Despite Oakland's accomplishments, and the fact that most experts agreed that this was the weakest of the all the Packer NFL championship teams, the Packers were 14-point favorites to win the Super Bowl.

It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines.

Upshur County was named for Abel Packer Upshur, Secretary of State under John Tyler.

* Major Phil Packer, is a British soldier who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by injuries sustained while serving in Iraq.

On February 22, 1774, the town was incorporated by Governor John Wentworth as Packersfield, after a major proprietor, Thomas Packer, the sheriff at Portsmouth.

Elmer convinced Asa Packer to locate a new railroad repair facility on the Pine Plains for the expanding Lehigh Valley Railroad, which was making a push north to connect to the New York state railroads.

The Isaac A. Packer Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Diamond's first recording contract was billed as " Neil and Jack ", an Everly Brothers – type duo comprising Diamond and high school friend Jack Packer *( Jack Parker ).

When it was time for the Super Bowl Champs to visit the White House, McMahon wore his Chicago Bears # 9 jersey, which did not go over too well with Green Bay Packer fans.

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC ( 17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005 ) was an Australian media tycoon.

Packer was known for his abrasive personality, his wealth, his lavish gambling habits, his expansive business empire and his clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Royal Commission.

At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia.

Packer, through his family company Consolidated Press Holdings, was the major shareholder with a 37 % holding in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited ( PBL ).

Packer was widely respected in business circles, courted by politicians on both sides, and was widely regarded as one of the most astute businessmen of his time, despite having been a poor student.

Although Packer's reputation as an astute businessman was legendary and he made some good investments, he was by no means a self-made man – his grandfather Robert Clyde Packer and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades.

Moreover, Packer was not the first choice to take over the running of the family's business empire – his father had intended that Kerry's older brother Clyde Packer would take over the company, but Clyde fell out with his father in the early 1970s and left Australia permanently.

Kerry Packer was also one of Australia's largest landholders.

Packer's grandfather Robert Clyde Packer owned two Sydney newspapers whilst his father, Sir Frank Packer, was one of Australia's first media moguls, and Kerry's son, James Packer, is Executive Chairman of PBL.

To boot, Wran had his government foot the bill to install lights good enough for Packer to use.

Greig moved quickly to put his side of the story to friends, journalists and supporters, assuring all concerned that Packer would be good for the players and the game.

After class her and friends go to the cemetery where Packer is buried and started to mock and dance on his grave.

Neal recalls later that night that Packer paid a visit to her in her bedroom and began to torment her that she had restless night ; her two friends experienced the same thing.

Sometime later, Neal and her friends decide to investigate by playing with a Ouija board, which lead to summoning Packer with bad results.

Kerry Packer, the owner of the Nine Network at the time, was informed of the show's content by friends while at a dinner.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

James S. Packer described him as malignant and ferocious, slaughtering his enemies with a private army, while Walter Ullmann described Sergius as a typical representative of the House of Theophylact, concerned with power and sexual liaisons.

Don Chandler ended his Packer career in style with 4 field goals.

Arthur also begins a romance with a legal ethics committee member, Gail Packer ( Christine Lahti ).

The models had nicknames beginning with " P ", such as Packer, Padder, Papa and Poet.

He was not originally destined for the role, but in the early 1970s Kerry took the place of the designated successor, his older brother, the late Clyde Packer, after Clyde fell out with their father, quit PBL and moved to America.

After the sale to Bond, Packer said that he had regretted the decision to sell Nine and wished he had not gone through with the transaction.

Packer faced a 1991 Australian government inquiry into the print media industry with some reluctance, but great humour.

After the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) refused to accept Channel Nine's bid to gain exclusive television rights to Australia's Test matches in 1976, Packer set up his own series by secretly signing agreements with leading Australian, English, Pakistani, South African and West Indian players, most notably England captain Tony Greig, West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, Australian captain Greg Chappell, future Pakistani captain Imran Khan and former Australian Captain Ian Chappell.

Packer was aided by businessmen John Cornell and Austin Robertson, both of whom were involved with the initial setup and administration of the series.

The financial and political problems of the recent Australian tour led them to begin negotiations with Packer for a WSC series in the Caribbean during the spring of 1979.

During March of that year, Packer instigated a series of meetings with then chairman of the ACB board, Bob Parish, which hammered out an agreement on the future of Australian cricket.

Retiring from cricket he set up a successful travel agency with the money he made from Packer.

Bell rushed him with a hatchet, and Packer shot him.

By 2000, Bailey had not yet proven a link between the antique pistol and Alferd Packer, but he discovered that forensic samples from the 1989 exhumation had been archived, and analysis in 2001 with an electron microscope by Dr. Richard Dujay at Mesa State College turned up microscopic lead fragments in the soil taken from under Shannon Bell's remains that were matched by spectrograph with the bullets remaining in what was indeed Packer's pistol.

In 1968, students at the University of Colorado at Boulder named their new cafeteria grill the " Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill " with the slogan " Have a friend for lunch!