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Packers advise season ticket holders to prepare for fewer or no fans at Lambeau Field for 2020 seasonGREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers will play before significantly fewer fans at Lambeau Field this year, and possibly in front of none at all.
The Packers are telling season ticket holders to prepare for a football season unlike any the NFL has experienced because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"New safety measures will allow for appropriate social distancing, which will require the stadium's seating capacity to be significantly reduced," Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy wrote in a letter to season ticket holders.
The NFL had approached the season as if it would be with full stadiums, but few people believed that would be the case in the end.
Although it hasn't announced it publicly, the league reportedly told teams last week to keep the first six to eight rows of stadiums empty to provide more distance between players and fans, but otherwise left individual teams to decide how many people would be allowed to attend games. The NFL did cut the preseason from four to two games.
In a letter to season ticket holders, the Packers made it clear games could be played with no fans, but in any case there would be "significantly fewer." A Packers representative declined to say how many that would be.
As a result, Packers fans, who had a June 1 deadline to renew their season tickets, can opt out of this season's games without losing control of their seats for next season, when it is hoped things will return to normal. Season ticket holders can request a refund or ask that their payment be carried over to next season.
Ticket holders who do not choose those options can apply for a chance at tickets for a game this year. The chance of getting tickets will depend on how many people opt in and how many are allowed in the stadium.
Physical distancing, the wearing of masks and other precautions will be requirements of attending games, the team said. 
Details on how all of that will work will be provided later, the team said. Season ticket holders don't have to do anything immediately.  Ticket holders will receive a questionnaire that asks whether they want to opt in or opt out, as well as other questions.
For this season, the Green and Gold package designations will be dropped, and the Brown County lottery program suspended. Lottery participants will receive refunds. Suite holders will receive information regarding their situations separately.

All packages will resume in 2021 if normal conditions return. 
The New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, New York Giants, Houston Texans and Chicago Bears are among teams that have offered opt-out options to season ticket holders
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020...364145002/

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BTW, this is far more than the Vikings have chosen to-date to share with their season tix holders. 

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PF called it.

Never have....Never will

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Note, Ive intentionally left the somewhat political commentary out of the OpEd repost here...you can read it in it's entirety via the link below.
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Fall football forecast: Maybe the NFL playsWill there be football this fall? Should there be football this fall? Is football at every level below the NFL going to be called off due to the pandemic?
During his time as a Vikings executive, Kevin Warren became known for honesty and caution. So when Warren, the newish commissioner of the Big Ten, said this week that his conference might not play football this fall, you should have heard alarm bells.
In the past couple of weeks, the Big Ten canceled nonconference games, the Dallas schools superintendent expressed doubt that there will be high school football in Texas, the NFL canceled two weeks of preseason games, Houston Texans star J.J. Watt said he wouldn’t play this season if he has to wear a face shield, Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith said playing “does not seem like a risk worth taking,” the NFL Players Association expressed a preference for canceling the rest of the preseason, the NFL asked for 35% of players’ salaries to be placed in escrow to help manage league costs and the league banned socializing on the field after games.
In other sports, key players have opted out or considered doing so, with San Francisco Giants star catcher Buster Posey declining to play.
Warren’s words and those of Dallas superintendent Michael Hinojosa might be the most alarming to football fans and anyone else trying to decide how seriously to take the coronavirus.
The Big Ten Conference, Big Ten schools and the Big Ten Network will lose a massive amount of money if football isn’t played.
And to understand the importance of prep football in Texas, you can watch “Friday Night Lights” or just think of hockey in our state and spread it out over a space that is 229% larger than Minnesota. Football is even bigger in Texas than hockey is in Minnesota.
All of these developments raise two questions:
Will there be football this fall?
Should there be football this fall?
There are three categories of football to address.
The first is nonrevenue football — youth leagues, middle schools, high schools, smaller colleges. These are teams that can’t afford to place their players in a bubble. A high school player not only could spread the virus to his teammates, he could carry the virus home to his family. For football teams with no major financial incentive to play, why would you take the risk of getting people sick, and perhaps getting sued?
The second category is revenue-producing college teams. They could be better prepared to keep their players within some kind of functional bubble, and they have financial incentive to play, but can they ask players to risk their health for an institution that refuses to pay them?
The third category is the NFL. NFL players get paid and are represented by a union. They are adults who can accept the risks of playing during a pandemic.
But should they play? And should they be asked to?
The NFL is simultaneously telling its players that they can smash headfirst into each other for 60 minutes but it’s not safe to exchange jerseys after time expires.
It feels like we’re on our way to cancellations at every level of football below the NFL.
The NFL has never cared much about player safety, so the question is whether players will object to playing, and how many would have to opt out for the league to cancel or postpone the season.
https://www.startribune.com/souhan-fall-...571730082/

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ive actually been going back watching some of the old Vikings games that are posted on youtube.  more and more keep popping up in my “recommended”, so Im like...might as well.