Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's all of the injuries, but many Packers fans are saying "no thanks," to this weekend's Packers game.
It's a buyer’s market, but are they buying?
As the temperatures dropped this week in Green Bay, so did Packers ticket prices for the game against the Falcons this Sunday.
“We were marking them down by Monday or Tuesday already, kind of seeing what we could get. We were getting around 100 calls a day with sellers and maybe 5 buyers, so we saw it coming.
On Friday afternoon, John Schmidt of Schmitty's Tickets said he had 65 tickets for Sunday, and people were continuing to sell.
“This is very rare. Only pre-season you see them go this low. But I think it's going to be kind of the norm with the 7,500 extra seats up there,” said Schmidt.
Take this ticket. Section 123. Row 14. It's going for $30 now. But its face value? $97.
A Packers spokesperson says the Falcons returned several hundred of their 500 allotted tickets to the Packers.
The team has put those tickets for general sale on Ticketmaster.
But NFL policy says, those tickets can't be sold below face value.
However, other sites do have the cheaper prices.
These folks visiting Lambeau while on business say they wish they could stay and take advantage of the deals.
“You know my wife and I have been fans of the packers for 30 years or so she's in Anchorage right now. I have to go back tomorrow. If I were to stay here, I probably wouldn't come home to a wife because she wants to come here so bad,” said Craig Campbell of Anchorage, Alaska.
And for those who live nearby, the prices are low enough to perhaps get them out of the house and into the stands.
“I guess I would. We usually watch it on TV but 30 bucks that's a pretty good deal. I guess I would go,” said Gail Nohr of Green Bay.
Brokers say on game day, they might be nearly giving the tickets away.
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