The Packers will host an NFC Divisional playoff game either Jan. 16 or 17. The opponent and specific day/time are still to be determined.
Lambeau Field hosted only a few hundred fans at each of the last four home games of the 2020 regular season, a mixture of team employees and their families, along with frontline health-care workers.
The 6,000 socially distant fans will fill roughly 10% of the main seating bowl, so it still won't feel anything like a normal home game, but the players will certainly take whatever they can get for in-stadium support.
"Football's not the same without the fans," said running back Jamaal Williams, who often chats with fans during pregame warmups and throws passes into the stands. "It's still fun to play football, but I feel like the excitement and some of the fun has been taken out just because that's what brings everybody together – the fans and the players – is the sport of football.
"I feel that's just something that we miss. You can really feel it in the stadium sometimes. We just love to have the fans there, just be out there making noise."
How much difference can 6,000 fans make? The Packers are going to find out, and they're confident the effort will be worth it.
"Oh, that's going to help out a lot," cornerback Chandon Sullivan said.
"This whole season, it's been pretty much a quiet stadium. Having as many fans as we can have is going to help. Hopefully, they can be loud and give us that momentum we need to win."
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