On this opening day of the 2009 Green Bay Packers Training Camp, your “Packerville” staff took the “Legendary Lambeau” two-hour tour of our football shrine this morning. We’ve done the tours before, but wanted to go on this version to see the visiting teams’ locker room. One of the things we learned is that the waiting list for season tickets is now over 83,000 names long. Although we have the “Gold” ticket package (from when they played games in Milwaukee), we are also on the waiting list for the “Green” package, sitting at just under the 4,000 mark. Hopefully, we’ll have tickets for all 10 home games before we’re too old to attend.
Today’s photo shows an ad for ordering Green Bay Packers season tickets that ran in the Fall of 1947, saying that tickets would be a great gift for the holidays. Only three seasons after their last NFL championship, the team finished 6-5-1 that year, and then dropped to 3-9-0 in ’48. We think that tickets must’ve been even harder to sell following that 1948 campaign.
