The topic of Green Bay’s infrastructure was trending on social media not long after the NFL announced the city would host the 2025 NFL Draft. The draft has never been held on the Packers’ home turf. Many fans, especially in Chicago, and media members are skeptical about the event being in Green Bay.
One of the things that makes the Packers special is that they were the only small-town (or rural, if you prefer that term) professional team that survived from the early NFL era. It will be exciting to see the NFL celebrate the Packers’ historic and special quality with the draft in two years.
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However, there will be some challenges as the city will host a three-day event with a spectator crowd of about three times Green Bay’s population. Lambeau Field holds about 80,000 fans at home games. The draft will have three to four times that in mostly inebriated fans watching live. Former Packers wide receiver Davante Adams has been vocal about the travel challenges he dealt with in Green Bay.
Packers president Mark Murphy has been working with local officials to plan for the event. They will have a plan in place to be hospitable hosts after having a nearly decade to work out the details. The NFL wouldn’t have scheduled an event as big as the draft if they were worried about the infrastructure.
The NFL world debates Green Bay’s infrastructure for the 2025 NFL Draft
I have to admit all these people griping about the lack of sufficient infrastructure in Green Bay have a point. I took this photo on Oneida street last fall. Not sure how the city is going to be able to handle this size of an event. pic.twitter.com/pJSxL2fPks
— Tim Backes (@timbackes) May 22, 2023
How is that person getting to Green Bay and where are they staying? What are they doing when when the draft isn't happening? 300k attended the 2023 draft. Green Bay's population is 110k. This is going to be NFL Fyre festival. There isn't the infrastructure to support it.
— Jeff (@jb410s) May 22, 2023
woke up to the word ‘infrastructure’ smeared across my bedroom wall in blood
— zach jacobson (@itszacharyj) May 23, 2023
Good news, #Packers fans! I’m doing some flying around Green Bay, in Microsoft Flight Simulator (which makes me more qualified than a sports journalist with an imaginary civil engineering degree), and I can safely say GB has the infrastructure to host the #NFLDraft! #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/4NC1WQBUqb
— Jerome Čop 🇺🇸 🇭🇷 🧀 🎮 🌹 (@jeremychopp) May 23, 2023
Green Bay seems like a mistake to me.
Can they handle the infrastructure of draft attendees after KC broke so many records?
— CraftDraft (@CraftDraftNFL) May 22, 2023
Can I ask you guys a question? Do we really thing the Packers and the NFL have been working on getting the draft to Green Bay since 2016 and they forgot to include "Is there enough infrastructure"?
Is this really a conversation being had? The draft is one of the biggest events…
— Pack Daddy | Packernet Podcast (@Pack_Daddy) May 23, 2023
What infrastructure does green bay have for 400k people? They have 100k total that live there…its a small city.. They need to find room for 3x the entire population of the city lol and that's no including locals who will stay at hotels because the partying
— Agent087 (@ChrisPick87) May 23, 2023
Green Bay deserves it regardless if the infrastructure can handle a normal draft or not.
— Hesterly (@NHesterly) May 23, 2023
Got a photo today from my carrier pigeon from my friend in Green Bay. Happy to see the town’s infrastructure is improving! pic.twitter.com/1YoHWAqCx7
— Greg Williams (@GregWilliams28) May 23, 2023
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