Putting a crimp in your New Years Eve plans? Significantly. I caved and agreed to go to one of those buy your tickets early events at a local bar, because a lot of friends are coming in from out of town and didn't want to do a house party. I'm not a big fan of these things, but can deal with it since it's top shelf booze. But it's from 9-2 and there's no guarantee the game will even be on TV there. So it's either show up late and waste a large amount of the "free" booze, or spend all week trying to convince some prissy restaurant/lounge manager to have the game on TV. Exactly. The NFL just screwed up the NYE plans of about 55,000 people at the game too who probably bought tickets and now have to sell their Bears tickets on EBay. If we weren't playing the Packers, I'd bet that the secondary market right before the game would be very beneficial for those that really want to goto a Bears game.