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By Tony Walter
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
Tickets for Sunday's Green Bay Packers-Oakland Raiders game are still selling above face value, but they're not as valuable as they were a week ago.
"Since Thursday night in Dallas, it was like a door slamming," said Frank Hickey, owner of Fox River Tickets in De Pere. "Sales plummeted. That loss took the glow, the shine off the Packers.
"I expect prices to drop like a rock before Sunday, then we'll beat the Raiders and the shine will come back. That's just the way it is."
Hickey said he was selling tickets for the Raiders game for $249 before the Packers lost to the Cowboys. His price now is $169.
"I expect tickets to be $125 on the street by Sunday," Hickey said.
The combination of the loss in Dallas and the strong likelihood that the Packers will host a playoff game has affected ticket sales for the Packers-Lions game on Dec. 30, Hickey said.
"For a long time, the price for that game was $300," Hickey said. "You can buy them right now at $229."
One reason for the drop in brokers' prices for the Lions game is the fact that it probably won't be quarterback Brett Favre's last game at Lambeau Field, he said. The Packers are expected to host at least one playoff game barring a collapse in the final four regular-season games.
Gary Allen, manager of Front Row Ticket Service in Milwaukee, said Sunday's game still has some luster.
"It's the Raiders so prices are dropping," Allen said. "But we win, we win the division so there's still some meaning to it."
Allen said he's getting $180 for a ticket to Sunday's game.
The bids for some tickets being offered on eBay aren't meeting the minimum price sought by the seller.
Packers season-ticket holders also are shelling out cash for playoff tickets.
Packers Ticket Director Mark Wagner said Tuesday that orders for playoff tickets are "coming in as fast as I've seen it in some time." Payment for playoff tickets must be at the team's ticket office at Lambeau Field by 5 p.m. today.
Ticket holders in the Green Package get the first chance to purchase playoff tickets.
Gold Package ticket holders are then allowed to purchase the remaining tickets.
Last year, Green Package ticket holders purchased 73 percent of the playoff tickets although the Packers failed to qualify for the playoffs.
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Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
Tickets for Sunday's Green Bay Packers-Oakland Raiders game are still selling above face value, but they're not as valuable as they were a week ago.
"Since Thursday night in Dallas, it was like a door slamming," said Frank Hickey, owner of Fox River Tickets in De Pere. "Sales plummeted. That loss took the glow, the shine off the Packers.
"I expect prices to drop like a rock before Sunday, then we'll beat the Raiders and the shine will come back. That's just the way it is."
Hickey said he was selling tickets for the Raiders game for $249 before the Packers lost to the Cowboys. His price now is $169.
"I expect tickets to be $125 on the street by Sunday," Hickey said.
The combination of the loss in Dallas and the strong likelihood that the Packers will host a playoff game has affected ticket sales for the Packers-Lions game on Dec. 30, Hickey said.
"For a long time, the price for that game was $300," Hickey said. "You can buy them right now at $229."
One reason for the drop in brokers' prices for the Lions game is the fact that it probably won't be quarterback Brett Favre's last game at Lambeau Field, he said. The Packers are expected to host at least one playoff game barring a collapse in the final four regular-season games.
Gary Allen, manager of Front Row Ticket Service in Milwaukee, said Sunday's game still has some luster.
"It's the Raiders so prices are dropping," Allen said. "But we win, we win the division so there's still some meaning to it."
Allen said he's getting $180 for a ticket to Sunday's game.
The bids for some tickets being offered on eBay aren't meeting the minimum price sought by the seller.
Packers season-ticket holders also are shelling out cash for playoff tickets.
Packers Ticket Director Mark Wagner said Tuesday that orders for playoff tickets are "coming in as fast as I've seen it in some time." Payment for playoff tickets must be at the team's ticket office at Lambeau Field by 5 p.m. today.
Ticket holders in the Green Package get the first chance to purchase playoff tickets.
Gold Package ticket holders are then allowed to purchase the remaining tickets.
Last year, Green Package ticket holders purchased 73 percent of the playoff tickets although the Packers failed to qualify for the playoffs.
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for more updates visit http://gryphononcowboys.blogspot.com/
Prices dropped because the packers are America's Team. :laugh2:
