Christmas shopping for a Green Bay Packers fan? You won't lack for gift options
GREEN BAY – Christmas-shopping Green Bay Packers fans have a lot of potential gifts to choose from, even if the number of places they can find them is less than in years past.
With the demise of stores such as Shopko and The Jersey Store, sources for Packers-themed gifts are more limited, with the Packers Pro Shop and NLFShop.com being the most obvious. Card & Coin memorabilia store and Dick's Sporting Goods in Ashwaubenon and antique stores are other potential sources of Packers-related gifts.
Here are some Packers-themed Christmas ideas:
Packers season tickets? There will be wait.
You can give your child or grandchild the gift of patience by putting them on the Packers' season ticket waiting list. With about 140,000 names on the list, and 1% or fewer getting tickets each year, they'll be adults before they are assigned seats, but that's OK, they'll need to be adults to afford them. But getting on the list is free. Just download and fill out the online form at Packers.com and mail it to the team.
The Packers are the obvious source for Packers gifts
New to the Pro Shop online store is NFL Draft 2025 merchandise. Everything from logo pins and magnets to glasses and drink cozies to shirts and hoodies. The draft is coming to Green Bay in April 2025, which gives you more than a year to be in fashion. And you'll get more use out of draft merchandise than the New York Jets fans who bought those Aaron Rodgers jerseys.
If you like to do your shopping in person, the Packers Pro Shop on the lower level of the Lambeau Field Atrium, has, if not everything, more than even Packers fans can want.
Start with an obvious choice, Cheeseheads. They come in original ($24.99), children's ($19.99) and baby ($16.99) sizes. They can come with names on them ($29.99), and if you go to a Packers game, you'll see plenty of examples of how they can be customized at home. Also, there are Cheesehead wine stoppers, magnets, coasters, underwear, pet toys and bottle openers, among other holey, yellow merchandise.
Packers clothing. The choices are almost endless. Game jerseys ($129.99), of course, but also dozens of styles of ballcaps ($34-$35), sweaters ($69.99), hoodies ($109.99), letter jackets, ($134.99) fleece jackets ($74.99), stocking caps ($33.99) and more. Most come in adult and children's sizes. Jerseys can be customized by the Pro Shop, as well.
"The Greatest Story in Sports," Cliff Christl's comprehensive four-volume history of the first 100 years of the Packers ($99.99). There is no better source on the history of the NFL's most successful, most unique franchise.
The photograph of three of the Packers greatest quarterbacks, Bart Starr, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, taken on Nov. 26, 2015. ($99.95-$129.95). It was the only time the three Hall of Fame quarterbacks (Ok, Rodgers isn't there yet, but he will be) sat for a photograph.
Packers soccer balls, footballs and basketballs ($12-$25). For the kids, big and small.
Remote control beer coolers ($399.95), for the big kids.
A Packers stock certificate frame with a Lambeau Field photo ($149.99). You bought the stock, so you need to display it in the office or the fan cave. Or the front hallway so visitors won't miss it.
A dollar will get you a squished penny at the Packers penny press. Five designs are available: Packers logo past, Packers logo present, a Lambeau Field penny, a Go Pack Go penny and a football player and football penny.
And there are Packers watches and rings, bobbleheads, Pilsner glasses and lots and lots and lots of fan cave stuff.
Card & Coin is a go-to memorabilia stop
Card & Coin, 2208 S. Ridge Road, Ashwaubenon, has several years' worth of Salute to Service and standard Packers mini-helmets, which store owner Mike Worachek says are excellent for holding autographs. The store also has a lot of vintage drinking glasses with Packers logos and such, including some good for making Brandy Old-Fashioneds, the official state cocktail.
Popular items have been jewelry from the Vince Lombardi era, and autographs, which come with documentation of authenticity. Also, photos, artwork, clothing, game programs, and other collectables. And, as the name implies, lots and lots of vintage football cards.
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Dick's Sporting Goods has a wide selection
Dick's Sporting Goods online site has many Packers items, from bobbleheads to coins to framed photographs to helmets, big and small. And, of course, footballs. Among the more intriguing items, a Strikeforce Packers-themed green undrilled bowling ball ($179.95) and a Riddell Green Bay Packers Speed Flex authentic football helmet ($739.99). Probably the biggest collection outside the Pro Shop itself.
The Dick's Sporting Goods store at 811 Pilgrim Way in Ashwaubenon has a large selection of jerseys, ballcaps, stocking caps, footballs and other items.
Various antique stores might have unexpected treasures
Antique stores, pawn shops and consignment stores are more hit and miss. You never know what will be available at a given time, but that's part of the fun, finding something that's unique, maybe old, or just the thing your brother-in-law needs for his Packers cave that won't cost an arm and a leg.
For example, Uniquely Yours antique store, 1718 Velp Ave., Howard, had two toy 18-wheelers with Packers themes on the trailers, and nearby Wonderland Vintage Market, 1712 Vellp Ave., had a collection of bobbleheads from the 1960s and first two decades of the 2000s, including Aaron Kampman and Clay Matthews, both of whom will be joining the Packers Hall of Fame next year, as well as B.J. Raji, Henry Jordan, Greg Jennings and others.
Other retailers with a Green Bay presence also carry Packers items, including Kohl's, Walmart, Target, and no doubt others, either online or in their physical stores.
Sarah Kloepping contributed to this report.
Contact Richard Ryman at rryman@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @RichRymanPG, on Instagram at @rrymanPG or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/RichardRymanPG/.
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