GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Frozen Tundra will not be the completely empty tundra for the playoffs.
The Green Bay Packers announced on Thursday that approximately 6,000 ticket fans will be allowed to watch the team’s first playoff game on January 16 or 17 in the NFC divisional round.
The Packers did not allow fans at Lambeau Field during the regular season and allowed only about 500 employees, their families and frontline workers selected to watch over the last month of the season.
Tickets will go to ticket holders for the season they chose during the summer. At the time, Packers President Mark Murphy said more than 80% of season ticket holders had dropped out. The Packers have two ticket packages for the season – one for those who had tickets to games in Milwaukee when the Packers played selected games there until the mid-1990s, and another for Green Bay ticket holders – and are sold out at a base season for the ticket. They also have more than 100,000 people on the ticket waiting list for the season.
The team said the fans will be “organized into socially distant groups of two, four and six tickets across the stadium”. Prices, set by the NFL for playoff games, will range from $ 127 to $ 177, based on location. The team will continue to host health professionals and first responders along with a league quota managed by the league for the visiting team.
“Our players have enjoyed the energy provided by the limited fans we’ve had in the past four games. We look forward to welcoming our season ticket holders to add to the atmosphere in the playoffs,” said Packers President Mark Murphy, in a statement. “We have seen our COVID-19 protocols in action and we are confident that we can safely add additional fans.”
In their announcement, the Packers said that “the protocols used at Lambeau Field and throughout the NFL have proven to be effective, as no local COVID-19 case groups have been screened for NFL games according to the relevant health departments in the cities in the NFL. season, the NFL had a total of 109 games with over 1 million fans in attendance. “
Facial coverage will be required. Tickets cannot be sold or transferred.
Club suites and club seats will not be opened and unauthorized use will not be allowed in the stadium parking lots.
Packers have the number 1 seed on the NFC, which means they have a farewell to the wild card weekend. If they win in the divisional round, they will host the NFC Championship Game.