Packers 2024-25 Season Thread

Question for those who would know - is the gold package thing contractual, or is it a handshake thing?
 
rpiotr01 said:
Question for those who would know - is the gold package thing contractual, or is it a handshake thing?
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Think it's contract have to get on wait list and pay psl fee. They get every year 2nd and 5th home game. This year they also get 9th home game due to extra game
 
The tickets for Milwaukee goes all the way back to the era when the Packers could not get enough attendance in GB to keep the doors open. As an example, 1958, when I attended one game with 850 people actually in the stadium. They moved half the games to Milwaukee to save the team.

Because of this, whether contracts were made, or not, the people of Milwaukee were to get games. There were six home games each year, from the 12 game schedule, so 3 were played in GB and 3 in Milwaukee County Stadium where they at least got big enough crowds to meet expenses.

You don't just walk away from something like that, and say; "Don't need you anymore." You stick with it, because it's the right thing to do.

We always talk about how Packer fans travel well, and so many buy tickets to games in the opposition stadiums. We point at it with pride, and talk about it, laughing at the other teams. But, when it comes to our own house, we get bent out of shape because it's happening. I guess we might start to understand how other fans feel, when Packer fans invade their stadiums.

I guess it's kind of justice in a way, but it don't feel good.
 
TW said:
The tickets for Milwaukee goes all the way back to the era when the Packers could not get enough attendance in GB to keep the doors open. As an example, 1958, when I attended one game with 850 people actually in the stadium. They moved half the games to Milwaukee to save the team.

Because of this, whether contracts were made, or not, the people of Milwaukee were to get games. There were six home games each year, from the 12 game schedule, so 3 were played in GB and 3 in Milwaukee County Stadium where they at least got big enough crowds to meet expenses.

You don't just walk away from something like that, and say; "Don't need you anymore." You stick with it, because it's the right thing to do.

We always talk about how Packer fans travel well, and so many buy tickets to games in the opposition stadiums. We point at it with pride, and talk about it, laughing at the other teams. But, when it comes to our own house, we get bent out of shape because it's happening. I guess we might start to understand how other fans feel, when Packer fans invade their stadiums.

I guess it's kind of justice in a way, but it don't feel good.
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But the Milwaukee package really is outdated. Since the 1970s-80s GB had no issue selling out their home stadium and really was no reason to play in Milwaukee anymore. The main reason GB played there was an original push by the NFL owners to get them to move to Milwaukee as it was a bigger market and also to protect it from the AFL moving a team to there back in the 60s.
 
GBP4EVER said:
But the Milwaukee package really is outdated. Since the 1970s-80s GB had no issue selling out their home stadium and really was no reason to play in Milwaukee anymore. The main reason GB played there was an original push by the NFL owners to get them to move to Milwaukee as it was a bigger market and also to protect it from the AFL moving a team to there back in the 60s.
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It's not that simple. Those people have paid for the rights to own those tickets, and whether they go, or sell them to someone else, is strictly their business. I think it would be difficult saying that none of the tickets that aren't in the gold package are being sold to intermediaries, who sell them to opposing fans.

If they did strip those tickets from these people, the fall out in the fan base would be huge. Before you knew it, the entire Milwaukee area, for openers, would end up being Bears faithful.

Then there's what would happen to Packer fans when they bought tickets at opposition stadiums. How long do you think it would take before Packer fans would be beaten up by fans of other teams, when they went to road games? Fans, for other teams, will certainly retaliate against Packer fans because of it.

No! Leave those tickets alone. If you want to get them, do it like everyone else did. Use the waiting list.

The whole idea of playing some games in Milwaukee also had a lot to do with improving the fan base in the Southeast part of the state. Too many people from Milwaukee on down to the Illinois border were switching allegiance to the Bears, and they needed to regain that audience. Without them, GB would fail. I think you'll find that a lot of the tickets from both packages are owned by people in the Milwaukee zone.
 
It also doesn’t feel right that people inherited tickets from their parents or grandparents and now use them as an ATM. Doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the original agreement thing either.

The teams can’t tell people or even try to tell people not to sell their tickets. I’m just wondering if the next team pres can just dump the whole gold package thing altogether or if there is something legal involved that would prevent them (terms of stadium rebuild/financing for example).
 
Though I admit there are plenty of Green package fans who sell also. Next to me is a person who has 4 tickets. They maybe at best go to 1 game a year and sell all the rest. Though it seems they are pretty good at only selling to Packer fans.
 
rpiotr01 said:
It also doesn’t feel right that people inherited tickets from their parents or grandparents and now use them as an ATM. Doesn’t seem to be in the spirit of the original agreement thing either.

The teams can’t tell people or even try to tell people not to sell their tickets. I’m just wondering if the next team pres can just dump the whole gold package thing altogether or if there is something legal involved that would prevent them (terms of stadium rebuild/financing for example).
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I'd imagine the team could work out something where the people owning gold packages would be put #1 on the waiting list for the rest of the ticket sales, so they could convert to a full schedule of tickets. That would be fair, to them. That would eliminate the need to just dump them.

Then, how do you deal with those whose names are about to come up on the waiting list who are told you don't matter to us, these people get priority? Then, what's to say that those same tickets, now for an entire season of home games, don't go on the market for profit?

No. Too many problems with anything that rocks the boat on this one.
 
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