Packers to sell 300 standing-room tickets for Sunday

The Green Bay Packers will offer 300 standing-room-only tickets for Sunday's NFL divisional playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.

The game is sold out, but tickets are available on the secondary market for those fans willing to pay the price.

TiqIQ's average ticket price on Monday was $323.71, with the lowest cost to get in the gate at $187. According to TiqIQ, the Packers have the highest get-in-the-gate price of this weekend's four games, but that doesn't take into account the standing-room-only tickets. The Packers have the lowest average ticket price for the weekend, which includes games at New England, Seattle and Denver.

Jeff Lanier of Green Bay bought standing-room tickets for the Philadelphia Eagles game on Nov. 16. He said you have to be online immediately when the tickets go on sale and even then a lot of them end up with brokers, such as StubHub.

"(Technology) makes it easy to purchase the SRO tickets and re-sell them," he said.

Lanier bought one of the two tickets he wanted. He waited until close to game time before buying the second one and was rewarded by falling prices.

"It seems like I paid $90 for it. I might have paid $81 or $82" for the ticket bought directly from the Packers, which included processing fees. "For the Lions game, they stayed pretty high. That was a popular game," he said.

Details on buying standing-room-only tickets will be released later this week, said Packers spokesman Aaron Popkey. The team will make available 300 tickets in the stadium's 400 level in the South End Zone. They will be $105 each.

"We anticipate they'll be sold" out, Popkey said.

Lanier was behind Section 430 seats with a deck above.

"The thing I liked about it, they actually had 25 TV monitors that were above the seats," he said. "We enjoyed the experience, especially at halftime when four people in the seats in front of us said they were leaving and we could use their seats."

Lanier has seats in the bowl for Sunday's game.

The website VividSeats.com on Monday offered tickets in the upper reaches of the South End Zone (the 700 level sections) for $165 to $211 each. StubHub.com listed seats in the same sections for $199 to $278 each. Seats in the 700 level cost $85 each during the regular season. The lowest-cost regular-season tickets are for $77 end zone seats.

Costs climb to the $1,000 range for the best bowl seats and more than 20 times higher for skyboxes, but a lot of other seats are priced less. Event USA of Ashwaubenon has mostly lower-bowl seats available, ranging from $229 to $749 each.

The cheapest round trip airfare from Dallas to Green Bay on priceline.com Monday was $1,295. The range for 3-star hotels was $269-$414 a night, while the range for 2-stars in the area was $194-$299 a night.

Hotel rooms were still plentiful Monday, said Brad Toll, president of the Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau, though with the opponent decided, bookings are likely to increase.

"If people call the hotel directly, sometimes they'll get something better than (online prices)," he said.

Airport Director Tom Miller is talking with airlines about more flights, Toll said. United Airlines added three flights into Green Bay to handle playoff traffic and American Airlines is considering it.

"Capacity was a problem when the New York Giants came in for a playoff game last time," Toll said.

Game time is 12:05 p.m. Sunday.

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