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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thirteen Below" data-source="post: 1061257" data-attributes="member: 18006">Even the most optimistic projections were saying 400,000 at the most, with most sources thinking more like a quarter million - but even Detroit pulled 775,000 last year, and what did they do in their spare time? Tour auto plants? Visit Smokey Robinson's grave? That's just a mind-boggling number; prior to that, the record was 600,000 in Nashville in 2017.Going back a year earlier, only 312K people showed up in KC, which is probably an indicator that attendance in Green Bay was going to be low. Even Philadelphia ony drew 250,000 in 2017, probably because everyone was afraid that Eagle fans would throw batteries at them and beat them up. Hard to imagine Green Bay being that much more popular than Philly, when you have 40,000,000 people living with a 2-hour drive of Philadelphia and there are only 2.5 million living within a 2-hour drive of Lambeau Field.Oh, I dunno. Wisconsin winters are getting a lot warmer since I grew up there. Give it a few years.But yeah, this is very good for Green Bay, the Packers, and the NFL in general. The eventg should shine a lot of light on the history of the 3rd oldest franchise in NFL history; you'll see the Packer Hall of Fame, and what a beautiful facility Lambeau Field and the Atrium are... this will be a very good thing for all of us.</blockquote>

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