Packer Fan Tours in the News
Need tickets for Vikings at Packers? Good luck
Posted on Nov. 11, 2004, Green Bay Press Gazette
By Andy Nelesen
The law of supply and demand has made a seat for this weekend’s Packers-Vikings matchup the hottest ticket in town.
A confluence of factors — the potential lead in the NFC North and ol’ fashioned division rivalry — has made seats difficult to find and a pricey commodity for those lucky enough to locate a ticket.
“It’s a tough ticket,” said Dennis Garrity, owner of Event USA and Packer Fan Tours said. “It’s a very, very popular ticket.
“It’s a game for first place. People are pleasantly surprised that a team that after week five was one and four was actually playing for sole possession of first place in week nine.
“It’s the NFL is all its glory.”
Fans looking for tickets might be forced to go the ticket broker route. Seats on the street of Green Bay are rare.
“Tickets are scarce,” Garrity said. “They are particularly scarce here in Green Bay because it’s a Gold (Package) game, so a lot of the ticket availability is in Milwaukee, not in Green Bay.”
“I would say it’s clearly a sellers’ market right now. The demand does exceed the supply.”
Part of the reason there is such a demand is because Vikings fans — in hordes — have made raids on Green Bay.
“About 20 percent of our demand right now is from Minnesota fans,” Garrity said. “That dropped off a little bit after the Vikings lost the last two games, but even now, there is a lot of interest from across the border.”
End-zone seats for Sunday’s 3:15 p.m. game are selling for about $225 a piece. That same seat for a less popular game usually sells for $75.
Garrity noted that pricing changes daily as the law of supply and demand takes effect.
“Singles are less money, better seats are more money,” he said.
Finding Packers-Vikings tickets has been tough, but not the toughest find this season, said Jess Miller, who uses classified ads to buy tickets to use as prizes at The Bar on Green Bay’s east side.
“The Cowboys game is the one that everyone wanted a mint for,” Miller said Wednesday. He’s found a few tickets for Sunday’s game for $125 a seat, but is still on the hunt for a few more.
“The only one that was real easy was the Monday night game (vs. the Tennessee Titans),” Miller said. “The rest … the Bears, the Giants … they’ve all been about the same.”