Citing change in ADA, Green Bay Packers to stop selling single game tix to people with disabilities

[TheMightyFavog]

http://packersnews.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120221/GPG0101/120221171/

Lynn Vreeke says she was outraged to learn last week that her disabled son likely won’t be able to go to Green Bay Packers football games at Lambeau Field.

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The Americans with Disabilities Act made changes that went into effect in March. The changes require entertainment venues to treat people with disabilities like everyone else when it comes to ticket sales.

That means the Packers can’t sell single-game tickets to them. It also means the Packers must end the practice of allowing people with disabilities who hold season tickets to sell unwanted tickets back to the team. Under the new rule, they’ll have to sell them to family, friends or strangers, or absorb the cost of an unused ticket, the same as everyone else.

The Packers provide 772 seats or spaces for wheelchairs for people with disabilities and their designated companions in Row 61 of the stadium as well as in the club seats. About half of those tickets went to single-game users on a first-come, first-served basis, Wagner said. The remainder went to season-ticket holders or remained vacant.

In the comments section, there's a guy already blaming "do-gooder libs" for the ADA changes, but I am unconvinced.