2025 Draft in Green Bay

[DoURant]

I've read that it's free, but also that you may have to register. Might be a good idea to check their website while making plans; with several hundred thousand people expected, they may have a maxium number of people they can let in to venue.

I think they ought to set aside an area for tailgating. Let the visiting fans enjoy the whole experience!

Its free to get in. You have to register with NFL One Pass. One adult pass per phone, unless you have kids.

 

[Wi. Mike now in Florida]

Image, A event hold by the NFL without a overcharge.
I hope they don't go broke.

 

[SudsMcBucky]

It will probably be pretty bad. Brown County has fewer than 5000 hotel rooms, and the NFL is expecting anywhere from 250,000 to 400,000 people to attend. That means at least a quarter of a million people are going to have to stay out of town, and I've been told that hotels as far away as Steven Point (90 miles) are booked up.

So literally hundreds of thousands of people are going to be driving into Green Bay from all over Eastern Wisconsin. I had planned to go myself, until I heard that. I think traffic will be a colosssal mess; it's like having 3 Packer games all at once.

I had read somewhere they were bringing in cruise ships to use as additional "hotel rooms." Is that still part of the plan?

 

[DoURant]

People were trying to rent their homes for outrageous prices, ($10000 a night minimum 5 nights... that's just greedy) I hope parking in someone's yard which on game day is around $20, isn't $100 for the draft.

 

[Poppa San]

I plan on going Friday for day 2. I'll be the one in the Nitschke jersey and Packers hat.

 

[Thirteen Below]

******** it, why are there 2 different threads in 2 different forums on the 2025 draft in green bay? And where is the other one; there were posts in it just yesterday.

 

[Schultz]

Go to Draft Talk.

 

[Thirteen Below]

I had read somewhere they were bringing in cruise ships to use as additional "hotel rooms." Is that still part of the plan?

That was a non-starter.... turned out cruise ships can't afford to deadhead all the way to Geen Bay without any paying assengers, then deadhead all the way back somewherfe after the draft.

Plus, as of late last month, the anticipated avalanche of people needing rooms just wasn't materializing. The airplane people in Oshkosh set aside 1000 campsites, but as of a month ago had only 10 resevations, so they withdrew from the scheme. Apparently hotels in general are really not seeing the volume they were expecting, which raises the question.... what if they held a draft in Green Bay, and nobody came? Whoever was asking about traffic a couple of days ago may not have to worry very much after all.

Remember bringing Amtrak to Green Bay, a cruise ship hotel, other NFL draft ideas? What happened to those ideas?

Opportunities like cruise ship hotels and train service sparked the imagination. But did they ever leave the station?

www.greenbaypressgazette.com

 

[Heyjoe4]

That was a non-starter.... turned out cruise ships can't afford to deadhead all the way to Geen Bay without any paying assengers, then deadhead all the way back somewherfe after the draft.

Plus, as of late last month, the anticipated avalanche of people needing rooms just wasn't materializing. The airplane people in Oshkosh set aside 1000 campsites, but as of a month ago had only 10 resevations, so they withdrew from the scheme. Apparently hotels in general are really not seeing the volume they were expecting, which raises the question.... what if they held a draft in Green Bay, and nobody came? Whoever was asking about traffic a couple of days ago may not have to worry very much after all.

Remember bringing Amtrak to Green Bay, a cruise ship hotel, other NFL draft ideas? What happened to those ideas?

Opportunities like cruise ship hotels and train service sparked the imagination. But did they ever leave the station?

www.greenbaypressgazette.com

That's interesting. I never thought about it, but if I attended the draft every year, I'd want it to be in a city where there are a lot of other things to do. Not a knock on the fine city of GB, but it's not Las Vegas, NYC, Chicago, LA, and on and on.

I still think it's great that the draft is being held in GB. Let's face it, they'll never host a SB. It's good for the NFL and its fans, and it's very good for the city of Green Bay.

 

[Thirteen Below]

That's interesting. I never thought about it, but if I attended the draft every year, I'd want it to be in a city where there are a lot of other things to do. Not a knock on the fine city of GB, but it's not Las Vegas, NYC, Chicago, LA, and on and on.

Even the most optimistic projections were saying 400,000 at the most, with most sources thinking more like a quarter million - but even Detroit pulled 775,000 last year, and what did they do in their spare time? Tour auto plants? Visit Smokey Robinson's grave? That's just a mind-boggling number; prior to that, the record was 600,000 in Nashville in 2017.

Going back a year earlier, only 312K people showed up in KC, which is probably an indicator that attendance in Green Bay was going to be low. Even Philadelphia ony drew 250,000 in 2017, probably because everyone was afraid that Eagle fans would throw batteries at them and beat them up. Hard to imagine Green Bay being that much more popular than Philly, when you have 40,000,000 people living with a 2-hour drive of Philadelphia and there are only 2.5 million living within a 2-hour drive of Lambeau Field.

I still think it's great that the draft is being held in GB. Let's face it, they'll never host a SB. It's good for the NFL and its fans, and it's very good for the city of Green Bay.

Oh, I dunno. Wisconsin winters are getting a lot warmer since I grew up there. Give it a few years.

But yeah, this is very good for Green Bay, the Packers, and the NFL in general. The eventg should shine a lot of light on the history of the 3rd oldest franchise in NFL history; you'll see the Packer Hall of Fame, and what a beautiful facility Lambeau Field and the Atrium are... this will be a very good thing for all of us.

 

[Poppa San]

******** it, why are there 2 different threads in 2 different forums on the 2025 draft in green bay? And where is the other one; there were posts in it just yesterday.

I took care of this.

 

[Thirteen Below]

I took care of this.

Sorry to be so digruntled. I don't usually get frustarted like that. Sometimes tech stuff just exasperates the hell out of me.... my brain doesn't work that way.