GREEN BAY – Zachary Beckman's dad didn't want to seem obsessive, so he waited until the day after his son's birth to add him to the Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list.
Beckman's number came up this year, only 28 years and 350 or so days later, making him one of the favored few to move off the waiting list of more than 144,000 names and lay claim to the maximum four season tickets allowed.
The opportunity doesn't come up quickly. The Packers have about 38,000 season ticket holder accounts and renewals were more than 99%, as they normally are.