‘Going to be chaos’: Milwaukee gearing up for busy sports Sunday
CBS 58 MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — If you are a Wisconsin sports fan, this Sunday is what it is all about, with the Brewers and Packers both in action.
The Packers are hosting the Bears at noon, and the Brewers and Dodgers open up the NLCS at American Family Field at 7 p.m.
“The Bears-Packers game is gonna really set the tone, and if the worst-case scenario happens and the Bears win, then hopefully the Brewers can at least pull together a win, ya know,” Wisconsin sports fan Matthew Swanson said.
Milwaukee Brat House Downtown is already gearing up for the busy day.
"Ordered a ton of extra beer, had to staff up heavy,” General Manager Joe Conforti said.
The bar will start sending coach buses to Lambeau at around 6 a.m., then the Packers play at noon, then the shuttles for the Brewers game will start in the afternoon, then the Brewers play, and then shuttles will run into the night.
“It’s going to be chaos,” Conforti said. “I’m anticipating we'll take somewhere between 400 and 500 to the stadium and back.”
If you need a place to watch the Packers-Bears game, the OG Pub and Grille on Milwaukee’s East Side might be the perfect location.
Craig Rzepka and Cassi Huber are the owners but are a house divided when it comes to the Bears and Packers.
“The Bears fans get here a little earlier so they can kind of take up the entire bar. Packers fans are like, where do we sit? Craig’s like, in the back where you belong,” Huber said.
The bar welcomes both Bears and Packers fans every Sunday.
“It’s hard to be a true Bears bar in enemy territory,” Rzepka said.
As the Brewers' postseason run continues, the push and desire for a World Series is only getting bigger.
“The Bucks run when they won the championship was kind of our biggest thing ever, but the magic we have right now, I feel this run could be very similar and be something we haven’t seen before,” Conforti said.
