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    Packers’ Gold package season ticket holders enjoy rare good schedule

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    GREEN BAY – Mike Beranek was so unhappy with last year’s Gold package program that he Green Bay Packers A text to inform them.

    He was ecstatic to see this year’s schedule, which included all NFC North division games at Lambeau Field and at least two games on the day.

    “I said, ‘Great! They read my text,'” said Beranek of Holmen in front of the Packers.Minnesota Vikings The Sept. 29 game is the first of three NFC North games assigned to the Gold package.

    He knows, or course, that the reason he has the best schedule in the history of the gold package is because he has no complaints. This was a completely random event, but his happiness reflects how season ticket holders are enjoying this season.

    “I think everyone was surprised,” said Green Bay’s Nick Stoetzel, who opted for the noon games.

    Jefferson’s Brian Dobson said he comes to all the games and plans to take the next day off when there are night games. He has held the tickets he inherited from his father for eight years.

    “I was floored. I couldn’t believe it,” he said of taking three league games.

    Gold package ticket holders played two of the 11 matches at noon in the last five years, including this season. Four were night games, including both games in 2020 (the Packers played mostly without fans that season due to COVID-19), and four were played at 3:25 p.m. They don’t know yet when the game against Chicago will end. You will have your season.

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    Gold package ticket holders come primarily from southern Wisconsin, particularly the Milwaukee area. They bought season tickets to Lambeau Field in 1995 after Packers president Bob Harlan decided that all games should be played in Green Bay. Games were played in Green Bay and Milwaukee from 1933 to 1994.

    Night games are a challenge for most Packers fans, regardless of ticket package. One study found that more than 80% of game attendees came from more than 50 miles away, so it was a late-night drive for most, but for southern Wisconsin fans, a 7:25 p.m. start guaranteed a arrival home after midnight.

    Gold pack games are randomly assigned. The Packers designate their second and fifth home games for the Gold package, then do whatever the NFL schedule gives them. In years when the Packers have nine home games instead of eight, the final game alternates between the Gold and Green packs, unless Green Bay hosts an international game that year.

    Green package holders play six (or seven) regular season home games each year.

    “We have a lot of friends who are green ticket holders who are angry,” Sandy Gatzke of Coleman said of this year’s Gold package program. Sandy and her husband, Rick, had been on the season ticket waiting list for 30 years.

    Green package ticket holders were not pleased for several reasons. First of all, divisional games are more important and are against the Packers’ biggest rivals. They are also generally more valuable and easier to sell for reason #1.

    Green package ticket holders accuse Gold package ticket holders of being too eager to sell their tickets, which sometimes plays into the hands of rival fans. It is not clear that this is greater for Gold package tickets than for Green package tickets. A look at any secondary market website for green pack games shows no shortage of tickets, but this belief is revealed when the Vikings are in purple or purple. lions Blue seems to be very common around Lambeau Field.

    “Night games are tough,” said Ken Neureuther of Hubertus, northwest of Milwaukee. “I know a lot of older Milwaukeeans who don’t come here now.”

    However, Neureuther knows fans who only sell their tickets to other fans they know. Sandy Gatzke sells tickets to a co-worker who chooses not to go. “You don’t want to lose your seats” due to bad behavior by a buyer you don’t know, he said.

    Paul Lafreniere, who lives in the Upper Peninsula near Marquette, Michigan, and spent 13 years on the waiting list hoping to get season tickets, said given the cost of the tickets, it’s unlikely fans will just let them go. Sometimes the program does not cooperate. “Thursday night, Monday night, it’s a long drive here,” he said. “We have a three-hour drive.”

    It’s worth noting that Packers fans have a reputation for being well-traveled. This means that many of them show up at other teams’ stadiums, often exceeding the number of fans coming to Lambeau Field.

    “We try to go to one away game a year; London, Vegas. Seattle maybe this year, or we’re trying to go to Chicago,” said Scott Schramm of Pulaski, who has both the Green and Gold packages and suspects there are too many. Gold package holders are selling their tickets.

    Although Beranek is not a big fan of night games, he hates it when other Gold package owners sell out to fans of other teams. He allows family members to use his tickets as long as they cheer for the Packers. “If they were Viking fans, I wouldn’t let them use them,” he said.

    This season, Gold package holders will enjoy good luck because, as Lafreniere said, “I’ll probably never see it again in my life.”

    Contact Richard Ryman at: [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @RichRymanPG, on Instagram @rrymanPG or on Facebook www.facebook.com/RichardRymanPG.

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