{"id":535,"date":"2004-09-13T00:12:32","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2004-09-13T00:12:32","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T00:12:32","slug":"lean_green_mone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Lean, Green Money Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/opinionjournal.com\/la\/91204harlan.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110005609\">Dale Buss explains<\/a> how the Packers have thrived, despite their small market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>For the past two years, the Packers have ranked 10th out of the league&#8217;s 32 clubs in overall revenue, up 10 spots from 2001. After a $295 million expansion and renovation completed last year, Lambeau has become a lucrative year-round attraction. And the Packers&#8217; cash kitty now exceeds $84 million, seemingly on the way to a $107 million goal that would give it a year&#8217;s operating costs in reserve.<br \/>\nThe NFL&#8217;s financial structure, which distributes TV and licensing revenue evenly to all teams, has created a level playing field for the Packers. Fans snap up every ticket to home games, and the waiting list for a Lambeau Field season pass is still more than 63,000 names long for a 72,500-seat stadium. More than 105,000 Packer backers responded when the team sold nonvoting shares for $200 apiece in the late &#8217;90s. &#8220;When we play on Sundays, the people in the stands aren&#8217;t just fans, but shareholders,&#8221; says Robert Harlan, a 33-year team executive who has been president since 1989.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Buss explains how the Packers have thrived, despite their small market. For the past two years, the Packers have ranked 10th out of the league&#8217;s 32 clubs in overall revenue, up 10 spots from 2001. After a $295 million expansion and renovation completed last year, Lambeau has become a lucrative year-round attraction. And the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}