LAST WORDS
It’ll be a devastating impact on the Green Bay economy to not have any fans. This has kind of been a nightmare. This is the kind of thing you go to the movies and see.”
Brad Toll, CEO of the Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau and the possibility that Packers home games could be played without fans to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Packers games generate an estimated $15 million per game direct and indirect economic benefit to Brown County. With eight regular-season games, two preseason games and, this year, a Wisconsin-Notre Dame college game scheduled for Lambeau Field, the loss could be in the neighborhood of $153 million. That does not include possible home playoff games.
To sit here, the man I am today, and think of my personal growth both on the field and off in the past 10 years of my NFL career is truly humbling. I am incredibly proud of my journey within the sport, and I will forever be indebted to the game that gave me so much.”
Longtime Patriots fullback James Develin, 31, announcing his retirement due to a neck injury that required surgery last fall. A three-time Super Bowl champion, Pro Bowler and Brown alum, Develin played college ball at Brown and had to move through semi-pro, the Arena League and the United Football League before catching on wit the NFL. He calls himself “INCREDIBLY lucky and blessed to have been able to pursue a dream I’ve had since I was a boy.”