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

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.

Lambeau Field

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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