Green Bay, WI (WTAQ) – As the Green Bay Packers gear up to take on the Arizona Cardinals this Saturday, local businesses are also preparing.
At the Stadium View, just a Hail Mary down the road from Lambeau Field, staff is preparing as if it were home game. Extra staff, extra seating. Amber Wrona, is manager at Stadium View…. “We’re expecting to fill up. We’re going to open up our back bar, our back seating, have extra room for everybody”.
She added, the bar is expecting a large crowd similar to the crowd it sees on a home game day. “For some of the away games we fill up, but we don’t have that three deep as we call it behind the bar or around the bar, we’re hoping it’s like a home game and we’re filled close to capacity.”
Travel agents say they’re busy booking flights to Phoenix. Nanci Dennissen is the tour manager at EVENT USA. She says the phones starting rining right after the Packers victory Sunday over the Redskins…. “It’s starting at $549, then it goes up from there depending if you’re flying out of Green Bay or Milwaukee”.
Then there’s ticket prices. Travel website Price Line say the average ticket will cost $381.
And, if you’re sticking around, the city of Green Bay is planning to hold another pep rally Friday afternoon downtown, to get fans in the spirit. “With this being an away game, we need to show the team and their families and everyone who is a Packers fan, that the Green Bay Packers are supported here locally,” says Jeff Mirkes, the executive director of Downtown Green Bay, Inc.
The pep rally will be at 3:00 p.m. at the Packers Heritage Trail Monument.
