NFL Draft 2025; Green Bay, local businesses prep for event

WEST ALLIS, Wis. - The Super Bowl officially wrapped up in New Orleans on Sunday evening, Feb. 9.

So where to next?

NFL Draft in Green Bay

What we know:

The start of the 2025 NFL season begins in Green Bay in just a few months' time – 74 days, to be exact.

As many as 300,000 people are expected in Green Bay from April 24-26.

Local preparation

Local perspective:

At Antigua Latin Inspired Kitchen in West Allis, the phone has been ringing a lot lately.

Late last year, the restaurant and caterer learned it made the NFL’s shortlist of approved vendors for this year's draft.

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José Ramos is the general manager. He said they'd already bid for one gig in Green Bay.

What they're saying:

"If I knew that the Packers were eating this food, I'd want it too," Ramos said. "[...] They would have asked us to come up for a week and just take care of feeding all the employees."

Green Bay gets ready

In Green Bay, the finishing touches are going to take a few months.

The site map is not yet finalized, but there would be a stage focused between Lambeau Field and the Resch Expo.

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And as for how Green Bay will handle an event where the crowd's bigger than the Super Bowl?

What they're saying:

"We've been working at this for, you know, more than eight years trying to get it here. You know, more than a year-and-a-half working on this since it was announced. Yeah, we're ready," Discover Green Bay Vice President of Marketing & Communications Nick Meisner said. "You know, we do it 10 weeks a year, right? We have 80-90,000 people who are coming for a game, so you know, we've been kinda saying it's going to be like three game days in a row."

Want to go?

What we know:

The draft is free to attend. Register through the NFL OnePass app.

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