Let Me Tell You Something: The Packers Could Disappear and Nobody's Talking About It
Packernet Podcast: Daily Green Bay Packers Podcast
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4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Big Sal is up at six-thirty in the morning, coffee on the floor, and Ed Policy just said the quiet part out loud: without the salary cap, there might not BE a Green Bay Packers. Sal's not overreacting — he's doing the math, and the math is ugly.
- Policy admits the Packers are top three in league demand but middle of the pack in revenue — and the gap between Green Bay's reserve fund and what a billionaire owner can deploy in one afternoon is getting dangerous
- The salary cap levels the playing field for players — but coaching staffs, analytics departments, practice facilities, and signing bonus cash? Not capped. That's where the big market teams are burying us
- Lambeau is the last stadium in the NFL without naming rights — and while Sal's drawing a hard line on that name, he understands the financial reality of what comes next
- This isn't some rich owner's accounting problem. This is OUR team. Community owned. Irreplaceable. And it needs every one of us paying attention right now
Drop a comment, smash subscribe, and let Big Sal know — where do YOU stand on the financial future of this franchise?
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| 0:00.0 | Let me tell you something, Pac Nation, Ed Policy, Ed Policy. The man just walked up to a microphone and said out loud what every Green Bay Packers fan has been quietly terrified |
| 0:22.8 | about for years. And I am sitting here in my kitchen in Pestigo at 6.30 in the morning reading |
| 0:28.6 | this article and I knocked my coffee right off the table. Asked Darlene, she heard the mug hit the |
| 0:34.6 | floor from the bedroom. She did not even come check on me. |
| 0:38.0 | She just yelled, how bad is it this time? |
| 0:40.8 | That is how often this happens now. |
| 0:43.1 | Here is what policy said. |
| 0:45.0 | He said, and I am not paraphrasing here, he said, thank goodness for the salary cap. |
| 0:50.1 | Because without the salary cap, there would be no Green Bay Packers. |
| 0:54.6 | No, Green Bay Packers, the man said of themselves. |
| 0:58.7 | And listen, I appreciate the honesty. |
| 1:01.0 | I genuinely do. |
| 1:02.2 | But do you understand what that means? |
| 1:04.8 | It means we are one collective bargaining agreement away from being at the mercy of every hedge fund |
| 1:12.8 | jagoff, every tech billionaire knucklehead, every real estate meatball who |
| 1:18.4 | decided buying an NFL team was more fun than buying a yacht. Because here is the |
| 1:23.7 | thing about being a nonprofit. And I know, I know. Everybody loves this story. |
| 1:28.9 | Community owned. No billionaire owner. Run by the fans. Beautiful. I love it too. My buddy Tomek, |
| 1:36.2 | he works over at the paper mill, been a Packers fan his whole life. Tomek cried actual tears |
| 1:42.2 | when I explained the ownership structure to him one time. |
| 1:46.0 | Just sitting in my driveway, man started weeping, said it was the most American thing he had ever heard. |
| 1:52.0 | I said, Tomek, you big softy, get it together. |
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