The Green Bay Packers kick off their 2018 training camp on July 26, and plans are now set for the team’s annual Family Night and the Packers Experience – the latter a part of the 16-month 100 Seasons celebration commemorating the franchise’s rich history and capped by its 100th birthday on Aug. 11, 2019.
The Packers Experience, a four-day free festival for fans of all ages, begins in conjunction with the first practice of training camp on July 26. It will feature four different areas outside Lambeau Field full of fan activities, including live music, a replica team locker room, USA Football kids’ clinics, Packers alumni question-and-answer sessions, photo stations and prizes through Packers Pass.
Fans can join all the free Packers Experience festivities on the following days: Thursday, July 26, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, July 27, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday, July 29, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
In addition, the Packers Experience will feature a theater playing a 12-minute excerpt from "Legacy: 100 Seasons of the Green Bay Packers."
Packers Family Night will take place on Saturday evening, Aug. 4. Now in its 18th year, Family Night will serve as the introduction of the 2018 Green Bay Packers, in-person to a capacity crowd at Lambeau Field and on TV to a statewide audience.
Information on tickets, schedule and 100 Seasons can be found at the Packers’ website here.
Born in Milwaukee but a product of Shorewood High School (go ‘Hounds!) and Northwestern University (go ‘Cats!), Jimmy never knew the schoolboy bliss of cheering for a winning football, basketball or baseball team. So he ditched being a fan in order to cover sports professionally - occasionally objectively, always passionately. He's lived in Chicago, New York and Dallas, but now resides again in his beloved Brew City and is an ardent attacker of the notorious Milwaukee Inferiority Complex.
After interning at print publications like Birds and Blooms (official motto: "America's #1 backyard birding and gardening magazine!"), Sports Illustrated (unofficial motto: "Subscribe and save up to 90% off the cover price!") and The Dallas Morning News (a newspaper!), Jimmy worked for web outlets like CBSSports.com, where he was a Packers beat reporter, and FOX Sports Wisconsin, where he managed digital content. He's a proponent and frequent user of em dashes, parenthetical asides, descriptive appositives and, really, anything that makes his sentences longer and more needlessly complex.
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