Posted on 08/07/2020 11:15:55 AM PDT by rktman
The Green Bay Packers won’t allow fans into Lambeau Field for their first two home games of the 2020 NFL season because of the coronavirus pandemic, the team announced Thursday.
The decision means the Packers’ iconic stadium will remain empty in Week 2 against the NFC North rival Detroit Lions and Week 4 versus the Atlanta Falcons on ESPN’s Monday Night Football.
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Plenty of suckers still want to pay to be abused.
Are they going to pump in artificial fan noise and cheering on NFL games, the way baseball broadcasts are doing that?
A football game with an empty stadium is just a scrimmage.
Pretty good chance it would have been empty against the Lions anyway.
And that’s a shame. If people would stop living their lives vicariously through a sports team/player and spending money on it I think the pro (and ameture) sports leagues would get the message.
Always thought a dude wearing another dudes name on a jersey was kinda odd.
And that’s a shame. If people would stop living their lives vicariously through a sports team/player and spending money on it I think the pro (and ameture) sports leagues would get the message.
Always thought a dude wearing another dudes name on a jersey was kinda odd.
Sorry for the double post
The NFL is still around ?
I have placed my Green Bay Packers shareholder certificate in a nondescript box and it’s sitting in a corner of my attic. I removed it from it’s place of honor in my study where my flag and print of “Reflections” by Lee Teter hang. The NFL is dead to me from this point, forward.
What about the owners? Did they ban them too? Not the fake stockholders who paid three hundred bucks a few years ago to get a useless stock share, but the four hundred or so actual stock holders. I don’t know how their stockholder ticket deals work, but if they were able to each bring their immediate families with them, just having VIPs there would put a few thousand butts in seats.
What is this “NFL”? Some ancient barbarian rite?
Season tickets to the Packers games are highly prized.
Heirs fight strongly over who gets those season tickets.
Team is NOT owned by a single person.
SHAREHOLDERS own the Packers.
They could have at least had a lottery and put a few hundred in there. Start with the longest standing season ticket holders and move down from there.
I wonder if the luxury suites are also closed? Will the front office be allowed to view the game? Will their families?
Hey! We Lions fans are having a hard time counting all of our Super Bowl trophies. The brass is getting heavy! Lol
Fine.
fans can ban the NFL.
How’s that going to work out for you?
Yeah, blame it on the epidemic.
Check out the empty seats this season. Check out the
viewership on cable, or online.
Sponsors are going to flee this sinking ship like rats from
the Titanic.
Pro sports is dead to me.
If I want to watch some woke a-holes, I’ll turn on the
tube or go online. I won’t tune into what used to be
American football.
Wait until they realize that Blacks are not monolithic about
BLM either. They’ve just gotten a big belly-full of more
dead, less police, less services in their area, and fewer
jobs too.
Wait until the inevitable payroll adjustments.
The highest paid people in the U. S. (or close to it), will
have killed the golden goose.
I can’t wait to hear that blamed on racism too.
I’ll be ROTF LMAO.
The shares are identical.
Owners of the Packer stock have no delusion about what they own. The Packers are a publicly owned organization and the stock certificates are legitimate.
There is no dividend paid and the stock cannot be sold unless it is returned to the Packers and they reassign the shares. The owners are made fully aware of these conditions by the Packers before the shares are purchased.
What in effect is happening is that the Packers from time to time issue shares of their company. The Packers get the revenue they need to function and the Packer faithful get ownership in their team.
It beats the hold ups the rest of the league uses with their P.S.L.'s or government mandated fleecing of the population through an assortment of phony tax plans.
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