GREEN BAY — If the Green Bay Packers are allowed to have fans at their games at Lambeau Field this season — and that seems to be a colossal if with Wisconsin’s COVID-19 numbers spiking — they are looking at having between 10,000 and 12,000 people in their 81,441-seat stadium.
That means the Packers — along with the NFL’s other 31 teams — are facing not only bizarre game-day conditions, but potentially big financial losses with games being played in empty or near-empty stadiums.
On the bright side for the team that is situated in the smallest home market in American sports, the Packers generated more than half a billion dollars in revenue last fiscal year and have protected themselves about as well as they could have from the harsh economic realities looming in the wake of the coronavirus.