Pack-A-Day Podcast - Episode 2043 - Key Takeaways from Brian Gutekunst at the Combine
On today's show, Andy recaps the key takeaways from Brian Gutekunst's media availability in Indianapolis, and why competition is going to be key for the defense in 2024. Don't miss it!
By AndyHerman
On today's show, Andy recaps the key takeaways from Brian Gutekunst's media availability in Indianapolis, and why competition is going to be key for the defense in 2024. Don't miss it!
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Comments (5)
WD
February 28, 2024 at 07:28 am
One of the better over all assessments of the Packer strategy. I agree with everything Andy said. It sounds Like DC Jeff Hafley is going to have a major impact on the upcoming draft. Hafley will assess specific needs and Gute will find a way to get it done. This will be a good thing. I think the future looks bright for Packer nation.
Ferrari-Driver
February 28, 2024 at 11:42 am
I enjoyed your discussion of season ticket pricing. My dad had season tickets when the Packers played games at the East High School stadium called City Stadium. Thus was awarded season tickets at Lambeau Field in 1957 where the price of a game for an adult was $4.25. As a kid I went to the first game with my dad I believe it was against the Bears with the Packers winning the game. It was a time when you would see families at the games with mom and dad along with perhaps two or three kids. The stadium only held a little over 32,000 fans at that time.
Green Bay was and remains a blue color community where families earn reasonable incomes and live a comfortable life. Players used to work off season jobs and I can still recall going over the the used car lot where John Martinkovic who was a packers defensive lineman worked. He used to talk to us kids and throw the football back and forth when things were slow.
Green Bay now has the second largest seating capacity in the NFL and the only stadium which bunches fans together on bench seats around the main seating section to maximize the number of paying customers. However, those season tickets my dad used to pay $4.25 for in 1957 are now $175 in section 119 on the 47 yard line and I no longer see the families of mom, dad, and a couple of kids surrounding me like I did when I was a kid. We no longer have players selling cars in the off season and I don't see player tossing the ball back and forth with kids of idolize the players any more. Times have changed and it has now become a big business. After I finished my degrees at Madison, I headed for California and only fly back for three or fewer games per year. I'm still the avid Packers fan, but the atmosphere has changed greatly from "The Old Days". It's strictly big business and I sense that the average citizen of Green Bay where the most loyal fans in the country are located are being priced out of the market and I'm sad to see that happening.
Coldworld
February 28, 2024 at 03:42 pm
Your information on price in relation to affordability intrigued. On a National Al overall basis, $4.57 in 1957 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $50.16 today, an increase of $45.59 over 67 years.
Now that’s just on average non sector or geographic US inflation over those years, but interesting never the less.
Ferrari-Driver
February 28, 2024 at 07:57 pm
CW, you are absolutely correct with your inflation factor and thanks for adding that. During that time period the income of the players and the income of members of the Green Bay residents differed little and football players often worked in the Green Bay area during the off season to supplement their incomes just as many school teacher did during the summer months. Deep down I guess I had hoped that the incomes of football players would have remained lower and the ability of the average to below average wage owners would be able to attend games with all their children, but I fully realize with the factors of supply and demand and the entertainment factor of the popular National Football League that will not happen.
NFLfan
February 29, 2024 at 11:59 am
We attended training camp 2 years ago and while there took a tour of the stadium. I knew I could not watch an entire game sitting in those tiny, aluminum 'seats' (12x9 in?). We were told it was risky to stand up @ any point as the 'seat' would disappear as people resettled-lol.
We did have fun chanting "Go Pack Go" into an audio enhancing device, though.