Green Bay Packers fans travel well and you can bet your ass they’ll be traveling well to Arizona when the Pack faces the Cardinals next week.
The Cardinals know this and they’re not too pleased about it.
“It’s going to take a little more time to stop seeing waves and just complete sections of the visiting team where you normally see Cardinal fans,” Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said this week. “I don’t give a (s–t) how much you get for you tickets, it ain’t worth it.”
We totally agree with and support Arians’ stance there. We’ve railed against dumbass Packers fans who sell their tickets to Vikings fans and similar such tripe.
At the same time, this is typically the only way for out-of-towners like us to get tickets to see our team. I live in Los Angeles and you know I forked over a bunch of dough to go watch the Packers in that desert hell hole.
A bit over $700 for a pair in the upper deck, as I recall.
And oh yeah, that’s the other thing. These fucking tickets are expensive on the secondary market. There’s obviously a pretty huge demand and that demand is coming from the Wisconsin contingent.
Ticket biz insiders tell me Packers @ Cardinals game on 12/27 is going to look like it's at Lambeau there are so many people traveling.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) December 3, 2015
This should not surprise anyone.
Places like Arizona and San Diego — a couple teams with shitty fans to begin with — always look like Lambeau West when the Packers are in town.
Personally, I’ve found it to be worse in San Diego (worse for them, not us) than Arizona. Qualcomm is usually 90 percent green and gold.
You’ll be lucky if University of Phoenix Stadium is only 50 percent in a couple weeks, Arizona.