re: People going to the game at Lambeau..Where are you flying into?

Flying into Chicago. Have an air bnb two blocks from Wrigley. Cubs on Friday and Sunday and driving up to the game and back that night. Obviously, tailgating is going to be minimal but I'd rather spend time in Chicago than Green Bay. Gonna be an epic weekend.

We are flying into Madison Thursday. Great town and only 2.5 hrs from Green Bay. Grew up in Madison so I am looking forward to introducing some LSU friends to the area I left a long time ago

Much better choice than flying into Milwaukee for those who are still trying to their gameplay

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Have an air bnb two blocks from Wrigley. Cubs on Friday and Sunday and driving up to the game and back that night.

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If you get the chance, get to some bars along Wells Street in Old Town or Division Street in the Wicker Park area.

To get into Old Town, you can take the Red Line from Addison to Clark/Division and walk or you can Uber. To get to Division, you could take the train, but you're better off just taking an Uber due to time differential.

Wrigleyville is a good time, though Clark can get pretty ratchet at night. It's also relatively far north, so it is a tad difficult to get places (i.e. Wicker, West Loop, River North, Loop) sometimes.

From this thread it seems like there's going to be A LOT of LSU fans at Wrigley on Labor Day weekend. Especially if people who don't post here have made plans as well.

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Chicago Midway. Catching the Cubs - Giants game at 1PM. Party that night. Early 31/2 hour drive to Green Bay on game day. Overnight in Madison (where my brother lives who is an LSU undergrad and PhD at Wisconsin). Then golf Sunday at Whistling Straights. Going to be an epic weekend.

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Damn, that's a solid weekend. All you're missing is a visit to Milwaukee and a stay at a lakehouse in the Northwoods.

Though you will be driving through Milwaukee, so cross that off the list.

For my uncultured self, what is a supper club?

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For my uncultured self, what is a supper club?

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It's a particular type of establishment. The one in GB that we are likely going to hit looks like it was frozen in time. Old school, pretty much everything this NY Times article describes. It's not going to be the best meal you've ever had, but it'll be good, friendly, affordable, and an experience.

Wisconsin's Supper Club Culture

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It helps, perhaps, if you’ve spent the day hiking amid the magnificent birches and pines of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, which extends in a vast patchwork across this lake-studded swath of northern Wisconsin. It also helps to know that a thick slice of prime rib is waiting for you at the end of that drink. You know this because the hostess, dressed in a prim black waitress uniform with white piping, has already appeared alongside you at the bar unbidden, pen poised over order pad, asking what you’d like for dinner and informing you that your table will be ready whenever you happen to be — no sooner, no later. That is how a Saturday night gets started at a proper Wisconsin supper club, a curious genre of old-fashioned fine-dining establishment that is particular to the state and had its heyday in the middle decades of the 20th century. Growing up in Chicago, I spent my summers in Wisconsin, weaned on the iceberg salads, cold relish trays, char-broiled steaks and Friday-night perch dinners that constitute the bill of fare at a typical supper club. I fell in love with these restaurants long before I’d ordered my first cocktail, and for good reason: the food was always tasty — supper clubs were doing custom-cut dry-aged steaks long before the practice became an urban fetish — and the vibe was always pure Wisconsin gemütlichkeit, leavened by a lively mix of locals and vacationing families. Dozens of these restaurants still exist, some having been handed down, generation to generation, and though they have been on the decline in recent years, a combination of nostalgic attachment, new devotees, and a more modern generation of spots — mainly in bigger cities like Madison and Milwaukee — that recalls their charms have sustained the tradition. Don’t let the term “club” mislead you: these open-to-all restaurants are about as welcoming as it gets. The term is a holdover from the Prohibition era, when all-in-one establishments offering dinner, drinks and dancing got their start in Wisconsin. The dancing component is mostly gone, but good supper clubs have fine-tuned the rituals of dining and drinking to near perfection.

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anyone staying at the potawatomi casino in milwaukee?

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Can I enter the same gate?

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Yes, they don't force you to enter specific gates. The Oneida Nation gate on the east side is always the most backed up because that's where all the big parking lot tailgates are filtering in from and also where all the people from the bars on Holmgren Way are coming from.

Doable, assuming the row isn't packed, as they don't have ushers checking stubs at the top of sections. Given that it's bench seating, the guy on the end might be getting forced into the aisle. That can definitely happen at winter games I've been to, but people are obviously layered up for those.