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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 590841" data-attributes="member: 10441">I never said there would be no Packers in GB if they had not passed the referendum.  I said it showed a good portion of that city is extremely short sighted when it comes to what that team means to the city.  The economic impact that the Green Bay Packers has on Brown county is probably exponentially larger to the citizens than their half percent sales tax they had to contribute to the funding.  A lot of which was paid for people from outside Green Bay itself anyway.  just in back to school shopping, GB draws from an area much, much larger than Brown county as there isn't much once you head north and west till Wausau.A winning and prominent team is very profitable to the city, a little stadium renovation with a half percent sales tax from the steel roofless shed it was before was the least they could do.</blockquote>

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