The Green Bay Packers began selling 250,000 shares of stock Tuesday, and fans couldn't wait to snap up a little ownership in the team.

About 1,600 online orders came in the first 11 minutes, slowing down the website and frustrating some buyers, the team said. It was the team's first stock sale in 14 years and the fifth in its history.

But there isn't much here that resembles stock. In fact, the team even admits that its common stock "does not constitute an investment in 'stock' in the common sense of the term."

What that means is this: No dividends. No price appreciation. No profit potential. No tax deduction. A limitation of 200 shares per person. No real resale value. Extremely limited transfer rights. And no game tickets, either.

In fact, the $250 per share price tag -- along with the hefty $25 shipping and handling fee -- pretty much gets you a nice certificate and entry into the team's annual shareholders meeting. You get voting rights, but what shareholders will vote on is unclear. Maybe the first voting question will be "Is this team awesome or what?"

The last time the Packers sold stock was in 1997, when it raised $24 million to update Lambeau Field, Bloomberg reports. The team has some 112,000 shareholders owning 4.75 million shares. This time, the Packers want to raise as much as $62.5 million, much of which will go to the $130 million expansion of Lambeau Field.

So who would buy this stock? Die-hard football fans who can say they are a part-owner of a team. And what better time to offer shares than now, when the Super Bowl champs are undefeated with a jaw-dropping winning streak?

And taxpayers can be happy about this: Instead of going to the city or state for a handout, the Packers are asking fans to help pay for Lambeau's expansion.

"It's not the worst thing you could spend your money on," economist Kevin Quinn told the Green Bay Press Gazette. "You'd spend the same amount of money on a team jacket and you can't pass that on to the kids."