If the college football season goes according to plan, Notre Dame will play its 2020 Shamrock Series game against Wisconsin on Oct. 3 at Lambeau Field. Whether fans will be allowed there is anyone’s guess at this point. What’s not a guess, however, is that Green Bay just got busier for that weekend because with Thursday’s release of the NFL schedule, the Packers have a home game against the Atlanta Falcons on “Monday Night Football” two nights later.
This is not a situation the Packers were hoping to find themselves in. It’s not so much that these games are scheduled so close to each other. Rather, it will be a challenge figuring out how to prepare for their own contest properly.
Not only did the Packers not get their wish to be on the road the weekend of the Wisconsin-Notre Dame game at Lambeau, but now they'll have to figure out how to practice around that chaos on Saturday before their MNF home game. https://t.co/Pw6HjrhOCf
— Rob Demovsky (@RobDemovsky) May 8, 2020
Whether the NFL schedule makers didn’t know or didn’t care about the Shamrock Series game, there’s nothing that can be done now. The folks tasked with preparing Lambeau Field for two games 48 hours apart really will have to earn their pay on that weekend. It’s not their fault different levels of football laid claim to the same stadium so closely to each other, so they simply will have to deal with it. Good luck to everyone involved.