The Packers Have a Problem
The Green Bay Packers have the largest waiting list in the National Football League as fans have to wait several decades for season tickets. The main reason for the problem is an absurd policy.
The problem is that season ticket holders are allowed to pass it on to other family memebers.
That means as long as another person in the family wants them those season tickets never become available to the public.
According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette fans on the waiting list are starting to become aggrivated with the policy as some fans have waited 35 years just to get tickets.
Some have even taken their name off the list all together after waiting for 20 years.
So, how do the Packers solve this problem without ditching the policy?
The main solution is a personal seat license fee to buy a season tickets for a certain seat in Lambeau Field for a certain number of years.
The Packers have done this in the past in the form of a one time user fee in 2001 to help pay for renovations to Lambeau Field.
The other alternative is to raise ticket prices, which the Packers declined to do earlier this year. Currently it cost $72 per a seat in between the 20 yard lines with the other sideline seats costing $64 and endzones $59.
The Packers cited the economy, but in reality it looks more like a move to not raise their profit levels to high to hurt their current fight against the NFLPA since their accounting books are open to the publice since they are a public corporation.
Something needs to give as it is not fair for these fans that have been waiting on the list for so long.
In the end after the Packers do something there will still he enough fans to sell out games as those who truly love Packer football will pay anything.