"Who in Wisconsin doesn't want to be a part of the club — the greatest football team on Earth?"

After 10 years, Matthew McLaughlin is tired of waiting.

The 35-year-old in the Dane County village of McFarland has spent most of his son's lifetime on the famously long waiting list for Green Bay Packers season tickets. Every year the Packers mail them an update, with more than 70,000 people ahead of them, and it has become clear they won't live long enough to ever hit pay dirt.

In what was part venting of frustration and part Hail Mary, McLaughlin went to Craigslist last week and posted an ad. What was he looking for? Somebody in the next 1,000 spots in line to give up their spot. In return, he'd pay up to $10,000.

But it gets a little more complicated.

The Packers don't allow people to merely sell their spot on the waiting list. So in order to make it happen, McLaughlin wrote he'd be willing to either a) change his name to that of the seller so he'd be able to secure the tickets or b) be adopted by the seller so they can be passed on in a will or c) marry and divorce the seller so the tickets could be transferred as part of the divorce decree.

The post, titled "I need to become a Packers season ticket holder and am willing to do just about - $10000," went up late last week and has been a bit of a sensation online — at least for the Packers faithful.

"Ultimately, and I'm not particularly wealthy at all," said McLaughlin, who works as a health care industry consultant, "but I figured that I'd put my savings into this if the right person came around and I can't imagine a better investment than the Green Bay Packers. I'm that confident it would be a diligent and smart use of my resources, even if they're a bit limited."

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It's been about four days but, so far, all he's received is responses from people wanting to sell their tickets at face value or cheering him on. An offer for season tickets — whether by marriage, adoption or name-change — is yet to come in.

"So far no one has offered to be my dad," said McLaughlin, whose father died years ago, "which is disappointing because I was hoping that somebody out there would take the bait on that. I'm a great guy. I'd be a good son."

He'd also consider getting a new mother, he said, but he'd have to work that out with his current one — "who doesn't know anything about this."

McLaughlin said the name-change option seems like the easiest way to go. The whole marriage-and-divorce scheme might be the most difficult.

There's one particular hangup, you see.

"I am married," he said. "I wrote this and I didn't tell anybody about it. Yesterday evening I was taking a bath and my wife sent me a link to a Reddit article about this (Craigslist ad), thinking I would find it funny. She had no idea that I had written it.

" ... I came clean and she didn't think it was a good idea we get divorced for Packers tickets. Which kind of left me wondering, you know, perhaps I need to reconsider things in a marriage I thought was perfect.

"If she's not willing to divorce me for Packers tickets maybe we shouldn't be married."

Have season tickets or a prime spot on the waiting list and want to make McLaughlin an offer? He can be reached at adoptapackerbacker@gmail.com.

Contact Shane Nyman at 920-996-7223 or snyman@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @shanenyman.