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At a game. Unless you pay. 

A new mother in Wisconsin is calling for the Green Bay Packers to change their ticket policy after the NFL team told her it wouldn't allow her 3-month-old daughter into the stadium without a ticket.

Erica Johnson said she had planned to bring her daughter with her to the Packers' home game Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings, but believed she didn't need to buy an extra ticket because the child is still too young to sit in her own seat, FOX9 Minneapolis reported.

Johnson, a lifelong Packers fan, said she called and wrote to the team regarding its policy for infants, but was told that all persons who enter Lambeau Field require a ticket -- whether they use a seat or not, the station reported.

“I just want them to step back and review the policy as to the rationale so that being a hometown team, family-friendly environment, the one we’ve always known the Packers to be, that kids could really enjoy that experience,” Johnson told FOX9.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/...ts-new-mom-says.html

1.) What 3 month old (yes, that's her daughter's age) is going to "ENJOY" a NFL game? What's your earliest childhood memory? Pretty much a lock it's not at 3 month's. 

2.) When said 3 month old (or 6th month old or 1 year old ) starts throwing a fit because 80 thousand fans are yelling and screaming, what does the poor sap who paid 200+ dollars for his ticket seated next to Mom and Dad do? 








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I sure hope someone filed the paper work for child protective services.  Anyone who thinks its an OK idea to take a 3 month old anywhere that requires them to sit in 85 degree weather in the sun for 4 hours is an idiot.  Now, if she was sitting in a skybox, that's a different story.  

Our baby is 3 months old and there's no fukking way I would take her to an NFL game, that's moronic. They're not even fully vaccinated at that point, so obviously cramming the baby in with 90,000 people is smart. 

Sounds like she couldn't find or didn't want to pay a babysitter.   

NumberThree posted:

Ah yes, that moment when millennials are now parents.

It’s beginning. 

This isn't a generational thing, this is a stupid people thing. Parents of all generations have morons who did/do stupid things with their kids. 

3 months old...   They are crying, pissing and ****ting themselves constantly at 3 months old.    Leaving the house with them is not enjoyable.   This lady is nuts.   

That doesn't even take into consideration all the potential dangers.   Crazy noise levels, long exposure to the sun and heat, people jumping up and down in excitement all around you.   Drunk people.   

GTFO lady. 

BrainDed posted:

3 months old...   They are crying, pissing and ****ting themselves constantly at 3 months old.    Leaving the house with them is not enjoyable.   This lady is nuts.   

That doesn't even take into consideration all the potential dangers.   Crazy noise levels, long exposure to the sun and heat, people jumping up and down in excitement all around you.   Drunk people.   

GTFO lady. 

The same applies to those 80+?

I was at the game.  With our 13 and 11 year old daughters. And I still thought it might not be the best idea given all the rubes and drunks and heat.  

Yep, bring the 3 month old.   That’s an IQ test people.  Take the under. 

Blair Kiel posted:

Hell.

Once we let women vote , it was over.

Hungry5 posted:

Wasn't it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

I thought math was hard... **** history. 

 

You guys are terrible! 

It's just a different world today. Things no one likely thought of 20-30-40 years ago are likely to become the latest 'cause' someone feels the need to make.
Entirely too often.

"And then....you become like me... where not a day goes by that I don't wish a comet was screaming towards the earth to bring me sweet relief!"

I read the article. She's no die-hard life-long Packer fan. Die-hard is still going to the game after the vehicle you're in is totaled in an accident on the way to the game. It is not die-hard when you skip going until the kids are "old enough" to go also. My grandson had to wait.

She talked about putting said infant in an infant carrier. Yeah, like that would stay on her lap throughout the game, unless she meant the hammock kind that hangs from the shoulders. It would still end up being uncomfortable sitting like that the whole game. She could have saved up a couple of feedings ahead of time. I bet she figured she would just whip it out whenever said baby cried, "Now!" Yeah, no distraction there. (I remember when women practiced modesty.) Stadiums and "sanitary" don't seem to go together either. So many ways a stadium is not a healthy place for a small infant - those have been touched on above. 

I don't condemn the Packers for this ticket policy. Even a 12- to 18-month-old gets bucky and wants to sit on the bench like the big people. Well, that takes up even more of the limited space on the benches. And then it's "I want to run around everywhere time." I love kids, but there's a time and place...

Wow...did I just type up a rant??? 

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