We are proud to name as this week’s Laura Lee and Cutter Weenie of the Week, former Milwaukee resident and former Green Bay Packer fan (at least we’re guessing), Rick Altstad. Rick was a long-time gold package season ticket holder. The gold package, originally used to appease fans from the southern part of the state from when the Packers would play 2 home games a season at old County Stadium in Milwaukee, it allows the holders of those tickets to see two home games a year at Lambeau. Traditionally, the 2nd and 5th home games of the year. This year it would be Thursday night football against the Washington Commanders and Monday night football against the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles, pricey tickets on the secondary market. Earlier this year the Packers announced that if you were a season ticket holder but had sold 100% of the games you had tickets to then they’d revoke your season tickets. Which is something most of us agree with, we don’t need more Lions fans or God Forbid Bears fans disgracing the hallowed grounds of Lambeau Field with their rooting for anything other than the Green & Gold. The Packers said this affects less than 1% of their season ticket holders.
Which brings us back to Rick Altstad.
You see, Rick hasn’t been to a game in 4 years, to be fair, his parents got sick and he was helping to care for them, but not one game in 4 years? Not one? Oh and Rick doesn’t even live in the state of Wisconsin or anywhere near it. He lives in Nevada. So for the past 4 years, he’d get his tickets and instead of letting someone in the family use them or selling them to other cheeseheads, Rick just put them up on Ticketmaster and potentially made a little extra money or maybe a lot of extra money in doing so. Yes, folks, Rick was a scalper. Maybe he didn’t mean to, maybe he had good intentions, but that’s not the way it worked out. Rick attempted to appeal this decision by using his dead parent’s memory to gain sympathy from the Packers but the organization said no. We need Packer fans there, not more Lions, Bears, or Vikings fans, sorry, Laura. Now we have no problem with the occasional fan of the other team coming to town, experiencing the greatness of Lambeau and spending their money in our town, but not too many.
So for trying to make more money off his dead parents than Norman Bates running a motel, for trying to honor his parent’s fandom by profiting off of their season tickets, and for acting like such a crybaby that even a guy going through Chemo called you out because even he made games last year! We are proud to name this pathetic pariah of a packer fan, Rick Altstad of Nevada as this week’s Laura Lee & Cutter Weenie of the week.
