Packers’ schedule is likely to be arduous for enterprise, however followers just like the lineup

• The Green Bay Packers’ 2026 schedule options seven nationally televised video games, with 5 of them at Lambeau Field.
• The crew will play 4 residence video games in December and January, essentially the most in over a decade.
• Four video games can be on streaming companies, which has prompted concern for some followers about accessibility and value.
• Local Green Bay companies are involved the excessive variety of cold-weather video games will negatively affect income.

The 2026 schedule is the strangest the Green Bay Packers have had in a very long time.

For starters, they are going to be on nationwide broadcasts – so much. Seven occasions, in reality, and 5 of them at Lambeau Field. Which means 5 of 9 residence video games can be at night time.

Also, the NFL has determined the Frozen Tundra can be a factor this season. The Packers will play 4 residence video games in December and January, two in prime time, but additionally two in opposition to warm-weather groups. It isn’t uncommon for the Packers to have three December/January video games, however they’ve not had 4 in additional than a decade.

In return, they may play three of their first 4 video games on the highway.

Notable factors in regards to the Packers’ 2026 schedule

• Seven nationally televised video games, six in prime time, one on Christmas Day and 5 at Lambeau Field. Two on Thursdays, two on Sundays and one on Monday in Green Bay. They additionally will play a uncommon Wednesday night time recreation the day earlier than Thanksgiving.
• Gold-package season ticket holders will get a late begin on the season, their first recreation coming Oct. 11, the most recent Gold bundle first recreation in a minimum of a decade. On the opposite hand, each video games are in opposition to NFC North opponents, the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vikings, and neither is an evening or weekday recreation.
• Churches can be glad. There are solely two midday video games at Lambeau Field, a Gold bundle affair in opposition to the Vikings in November and a Green bundle recreation in opposition to the Miami Dolphins in December.
• Four video games are on Amazon or Netflix streaming companies, which is able to vex followers and agitate elected officers who’re vital of the NFL over the price of watching video games. For followers in Green Bay and Milwaukee TV markets, this would possibly not imply a lot, since video games are broadcast on native stations, however the Packers have followers throughout the nation (and around the globe) who will not be glad.
• The Packers can be completed with the Vikings earlier than Thanksgiving. They’ll play the Bears on Christmas Day in Chicago and end the season with the Detroit Lions. This would be the seventh time in 11 years and the fourth throughout Matt LaFleur’s tenure they end with Detroit.
• Fewer than half the Packers’ video games, eight out of 17, are on Fox, historically the NFC community, one other sufferer of streaming.
• The Packers play back-to-back highway video games twice, and back-to-back residence video games thrice.
• There are not any Packers residence video games to infringe on the gun deer searching season in Wisconsin. In reality, for the beginning of deer season, there is no recreation in any respect. The bye week begins Nov. 22 and deer season is Nov. 21-29. The Packers play in Los Angeles on Nov. 25.

Four video games within the chilly not splendid for eating places, bars

Margarita’s Green Bay proprietor Tim Kuehn is used to schedules which are lower than excellent for his restaurant simply west of Lambeau Field, and even the 5 night time video games did not faze him – 3:25 p.m. video games are the candy spot and there is solely a type of this 12 months – however the 4 video games on the finish of the 12 months surprised him.

“You’re kidding me. That stinks,” he mentioned, explaining that due to the chilly, followers will come to his restaurant even later within the day earlier than a recreation, which suggests much less spending, and lots of will not even try this. “A lot will park and put their warm stuff on and run [to the stadium].”

Jess Miller, an proprietor of The Bar, Graystone Ale House and Hagemeister Park, believes a few of these December/January video games could have obtainable tickets. The video games round Christmas would possibly depress journey and spending, and back-to-back video games are likely to depress spending anyway.

“Would have been good to get the Bills earlier within the 12 months. Bills followers journey properly,” he mentioned.

It’s debatable whether or not Miami and Houston followers will come flocking to Green Bay in winter.

But Miller and Kuehn each mentioned that even this schedule is healthier than having no crew in any respect. “We are just happy to be an NFL city and take advantage,” Miller mentioned. “We’ve got nine home games and the [Wisconsin] Badgers game [vs. Notre Dame on Sept. 6 at Lambeau Field].”

“At the end of the day, it’s good,” Kuehn mentioned.

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Steve Schumer, a Packers FAN Hall of Fame member who lives in New Jersey, was not happy that 4 video games can be on streaming websites.

“I grudgingly accept that more and more games being on streaming platforms seems inevitable, but I think it unfortunately cuts out many fans who simply can’t afford to subscribe to all these multiple platforms,” Schumer mentioned.

“Considering how much money the NFL already rakes in – especially since they legalized gambling on the games, which I personally abhor – I think them making so many games now only available on streaming platforms makes the NFL look tone-deaf to the current state of the national economy and to the majority of NFL fans who are struggling to simply makes ends meet.”

Fans glad Packers begin season with ‘beatable’ groups

Jim Henaman, a fan who lives in Knowlton, appreciated that the Packers’ early video games, in opposition to the Vikings, Jets, Falcons and Buccaneers, usually are not the hardest on the schedule. “They’ll get some confidence while waiting for our walking wounded to come back,” he mentioned.

Schumer, too, likes the order of the opponents.

“Assuming Micah Parsons misses the first few games of the season, facing the Vikings, Jets, Falcons and Bucs in the first month without him is about as favorable matchups as we possibly could’ve hoped for,” he mentioned. “As well, the odds are high that his return may be the fifth game of the season at home against the Bears. If so, I can’t imagine a better debut for him and a more electric atmosphere at Lambeau.”

The 4 video games in December/January ought to profit the Packers on the sphere, if not off, Schumer mentioned. Also, it is good that the video games in opposition to division rivals are spaced out, and “I like, too, that the bye is about two-thirds of the way through the season, where in too many prior years I thought it came way too early.”

While the winter night time video games is likely to be difficult, Miller mentioned the Thanksgiving eve recreation in Los Angeles may very well be helpful. “That’s one we can build a crowd around. That’s a good night [traditionally] for bar business,” he mentioned.

Here is the Packers’ 2026 schedule:

• Sunday, Sept. 13: at Minnesota Vikings, 3:25 p.m. (CBS)
• Sunday, Sept. 20: at New York Jets, midday (Fox)
• Thursday, Sept. 24: Atlanta Falcons, 7:15 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Sunday, Oct. 4: at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, midday (Fox)
• Sunday, Oct. 11: Chicago Bears, 3:25 p.m. (Fox)
• Sunday, Oct. 18: Dallas Cowboys, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)
• Sunday, Oct. 25: at Detroit Lions, 3:25 p.m. (Fox)
• Thursday, Oct. 29: vs. Carolina Panthers, 7:15 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Sunday, Nov. 8: at New England Patriots, 3:25 p.m. (Fox)
• Sunday, Nov. 15: Minnesota Vikings, midday (Fox)
• Week 11: BYE
• Wednesday, Nov. 25: at Los Angeles Rams, 7 p.m. (Netflix)
• Sunday, Dec. 6: at New Orleans Saints, midday (Fox)
• Sunday, Dec. 13: Buffalo Bills, 7:20 p.m. (NBC)
• Sunday, Dec. 20: Miami Dolphins, midday (Fox)
• Friday, Dec. 25: at Chicago Bears, midday (Netflix)
• Monday, Jan. 4: Houston Texans, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN)
• Saturday/Sunday, Jan. 9/Jan. 10: Detroit Lions (TBD)

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