I don’t qualify for complete Guy-Hood. I know very little about football. Sorry.
But I have some friends out Wisconsin-way that are die-hard Packers fans. (I think it is a state law that everyone in the state must be like that.) But they’ve only seen two Packer games, and one was away.
They were there for me in a great time of need. I can’t do much to show my gratitude. I am not nearly the wordsmith I wish I was, so all attempts at written/ verbal appreciation begin in my head as sunny, warm sentiments, yet end up raining down as trite clichés. So, said I, what would these folks like? What would be something they’d not get for themselves, yet would love to have? Packer’s tickets.
What the hell is up with Lambeau Field? EVERY seat belongs to a season ticket holder?! I understand some of what happened with the two stadiums combining, but every seat?! No addition built to accommodate regular folks? People will their spot on the waiting list to buy an available season ticket? I don’t get it. Where is my econ professor when I need him- if there is that much of a demand, the market, in theory, should accommodate with a larger stadium. What gives?
Anyway, I could go on for a while about how weird the situation is (not that Packer’s fans aren’t used to that) but I have a reason for the OP. Where do people, normal people, normal student-people with very little money to spend, get tickets from? I’ve searched on the net and all I can find are two to three hundred dollar tickets (if I’m lucky). That is with a few different Google searches and a couple shots on E-Bay. I realize part of the reason is that the season is about to end, but what do ticket prices return to? Is there a way to get next year’s tickets? Any thoughts on what I could do?
I would suggest running for governor for Wisconsin. You might be able to score some tickets that way.
You could marry someone on the season ticket holders list who was recently widowed.
Seriously, though, for some events you just have to be prepared to pay through the nose.
Or, you could be a gambling man like a friend of mine and go to Lambeau Field on game day and check out the day of game scalping action and they wait until the game has already started and the scalpers are desperate and then you can get a bargain.
However, I have no idea how much game day scalping goes on in Green Bay.
Good thoughts, but not something I can quite do for my friends. Sending them a few dollars, a six pack and a block of cheese and saying good luck in the parking lot does not a thank you make. But there are a lot more people than I reading this, so thanks for your imput - someone might head out there.
I live in Wisconsin and I am certainly not a Packer fan. I love the Vikes.
Anyways, my SO is a Packer fan. we live about 6 hours from Green Bay and we don’t know any season ticket holders - but have bought tickets on eBay. My SO got playoff tickets online, at $265 each - a link from the Packers site. That is expensive, we’ve went to a few Vikings playoff games at the Metrodome for less than $100 per ticket.
Sorry to say, I think eBay is your best bet. I think the waiting list to get on the season tickets holder’s list is something like 50 years long.
icky. This is about to happen in Soldier Field as well, where you have to buy a LICENSE ($2000) to buy season tickets, and then they’re increasing the amount of seaons tickets they’re going to sell to corporations and such.
Joe average is going to have to pay hundreds of dollars plus fellatio to get into a game there.
It’s really gross what’s happening to live sporting events.
I’ve always been a little confused by this. I know that the Packers are “owned” by the people of Green Bay, but not how it works. Is it a corporation owned by the season-ticket-holders, is it in a charitable trust for the benefit of all the people of Green Bay, or what? Who provides money if they run a deficit? Who gets dividends if they generate excess cash?
That also explains why my friends have seen but two games. Oh well, thanks for the replies, it was a nice thought.
I don’t get the economics of it all. There are Manhattan’s questions bout the structure of the organization. Also, why don’t they build an addition/ new field. If that many folks are willing to pay butloads of money for one ticket, isn’t that a veritable guarentee that a gargantual stadium could sell out AND offer reasonably priced tickets?
The season ticket holders aren’t necessarily shareholders. The Packers are a non-profit corporation. If you sell your shares, you only get back what you paid for them. And no one can own more than 200 shares. (At least originally, that might have changed when more shares were offered for sale in 1997.)
If the Packers were to move, the corporation would have to be dissolved and all the shareholders paid off for their initial investment.
FWIW…they are in the process of remodeling Lambeau…after a tax referendum was passed in Brown county last year. The capacity will grow from 66,100 to 71,500 when done. Of course the big bucks will come with the additional skyboxes.
So why doesn’t anyone want to marry my SIL? She’s not that bad. And the seats really are on the 50… not the 48 or 49… the 50 would split the two in half.
Seriously, the ticket holders hang on to them with a passion. The family has moved literally half way around the world and has still kept the tickets. None of the direct family (i.e. those who can have the tickets passed to them… my wife, then kids are next on the list) has lived in Wisconsin for 30 years, but they already have a plan for future generations.
We gave a pair to my wife’s ex-boss (who took us to several Colts games) when he relocated to Madison, and now he has a line of co-workers begging for access to his “connection.”
I guess this doesn’t really help the OP, other than reiterating that they won’t be very easy to come by without paying the price.