{"id":246275,"date":"2022-05-20T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/some-packers-fans-have-waited-almost-50-years-for-season-tickets-that-wait-is-now-over"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:10:47","slug":"some-packers-fans-have-waited-almost-50-years-for-season-tickets-that-wait-is-now-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/some-packers-fans-have-waited-almost-50-years-for-season-tickets-that-wait-is-now-over","title":{"rendered":"Some Packers fans have waited almost 50 years for season tickets. That wait is now over."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREEN BAY&nbsp;&#8211; Nearly twice as many names as usual will come off the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list this year, the result of normal turnover and the team redistributing some excess tickets they took back from a handful of fans. More than 99% of the Packers&#8217;&nbsp;38,000 season ticket holders renew their seats every year, which results in about 70-100 new ticket buyers. The team has a waiting list of 140,000 for 81,441-seat Lambeau Field, which means a long time on the list. Cory Vogel of Green Bay was put on the list when he was 2. He&#8217;s 51 now and recently accepted an offer for Gold package tickets. &#8220;I was pretty excited. It was a long time in waiting,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My parents had seats in the same section.&#8221; The Green Bay Packers send this golden ticket to fans on the season ticket waiting list when their opportunity to purchase tickets finally comes up. The wait is several<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 99% of the Packers&#8217;&#160;38,000 season ticket holders renew their seats every year, which results in about 70-100 new ticket buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}