All those Packers fans in St. Louis? 'It's a joke,' Rams say

[The Leaper]

Don't the Milwaukee season ticket holders sell more of their tix? That's a bad situation.

I would think the Green Bay crowd with 6 tickets a year are far more likely to sell a couple to pay for their other tickets...or more likely to sell their entire stock for a big profit.

If you had 2 tickets, would you honestly sell either of them? What if you had 6? You probably would be more likely to sell a couple of them.

[Joemailman]

Don't the Milwaukee season ticket holders sell more of their tix? That's a bad situation.

I'm a Milwaukee season ticket holder who also got tickets to the Bear game. There were far more Bear fans at Lambeau than there were Viking fans for the second Milwaukee game.

[CaliforniaCheez]

Back to the good news.


Rams fans Pack it in by selling seats
By Bryan Burwell
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
12/17/2007

All day long, the Edward Jones Dome was full of so much thunder, so much enthusiastic energy. But down on the field that not so long ago hosted the dazzling Greatest Show on Turf, everything was a distorted mess.

Wrong sounds. Wrong colors.

"LET'S GO PACK!!! LET'S GO PACK!!"

Cheeseheads, not Rams horns, were the headgear du jour. Every corner of the place was full of Green Bay Packer green and gold. Signs, painted faces, and all manner of Packers gear, and every bit of full-throated emotional energy had spread throughout the Dome, drowning what faint signs of Rams life remained.

At the end of another Sunday disaster, the hometown Rams trotted off the field like it was another uncomfortable road game, while the Packers left the premises bathed in deafening cheers.

"It's a joke, as simple as that," Rams running back Steven Jackson said, the words spitting out of his mouth in disgusted staccato bursts.

No fewer than 30,000 or so Packer loyalists had invaded the building. And with at least half the house a Packer mob, like rude house guests they rearranged all the furniture, kicked their feet up on the couches and pretty much made themselves right at home.

When someone asked Jackson if at times it felt like he was in Lambeau Field, the disgruntled tailback barely let them finish the question. "We were at Lambeau Field," he snapped. "The whole first level was Green Bay Packer fans. And then we're allowing them to put up signs."

The placards were mostly hand-written love letters to their beloved Pack. But there was one sign that had nothing to do with the Pack, but it cut right to the brutal and unavoidable heart of the matter.

"SILENCE OF THE RAMS."

This is a clear and decisive statement of common fans' dissatisfaction. There was a time when dissatisfaction would have been done with passive hostility: no-shows.

But this is so much worse. No-shows are so 1980s. In the 21st century, the Rams fan issues a stern public decree of displeasure against NFL owners who force PSLs and bad football business plans down their throats with a more practical business solution. Sunday morning, the streets of downtown St. Louis were filled with eager Packer fans, their pockets stuffed with cash, and a large number of street-corner entrepreneurs with their pockets stuffed with ducats they acquired from legions of unhappy season ticket-holders.

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Larry McCaren said the during pregame warm ups, when fans don't have to sit in assigned seats but can go down to the rail, was when it was most telling. All the fans at the rail were Packer fans.

I noticed the fans proud of where they were from. Cheeseheads with "Las Vegas" on them. Signs that read "Idaho Packer fans". The Packer Christmas stockings hung from the rail were a nice touch.

[Jerry Tagge]

What's really going to be fun is to see all the green and gold at the spaceship on Sunday. I can't wait to hear all the Bears clowns whine about Packers fans taking over their pathetic spaceship.

That is if there's any Bears clowns left. They've all pretty much jumped off the bandwagon like it's the deck of the Titanic. Pathetic losers one and all.

[The Leaper]

Yep...Soldier Field will be green and gold on Sunday.

[OS PA]

Kind of sad that the day the Packers come to St. Louis is the day I move away from St. Louis. I was on a train heading northing while the Packers were winning!

[MJZiggy]

You couldn't have taken the redeye?

[HarveyWallbangers]

Don't the Milwaukee season ticket holders sell more of their tix? That's a bad situation.

I would think the Green Bay crowd with 6 tickets a year are far more likely to sell a couple to pay for their other tickets...or more likely to sell their entire stock for a big profit.

If you had 2 tickets, would you honestly sell either of them? What if you had 6? You probably would be more likely to sell a couple of them.

I think your logic if fine, but I don't think it's true. Yeah, they only have 2 tickets, but they have to drive a couple of hours (during the rush hour before and after the game) to get to the game, and that seems to get more people to give up tickets--especially in wintery weather. If you had 6 tickets, would the one or two you gave up be for the Bears or Vikings game?

[LL2]

I've been to the the Rams stadium to watch a game a couple years ago. The stadium itself is not great, but they have an area close to the stadium and the Arch that is a cool area to hang out before the game. It's a few streets that has an old town feel with cobble stone streets. All kinds of vendors selling burgers, brats, and beer. I had fun when I went, but it still does not compare to Lambeau Field.