GREEN BAY (WLUK) – Football fans had an opportunity to take home a piece of Green Bay history.
Dozens of banners, tons of signs — both big and small – including the 80ft. one that hung over the draft stage, along with photos from inside some of the NFL Experience exhibits and one New York Giants barstool are just some of the nearly 500 items from the 2025 NFL Draft included in an online auction.
John Dugan from Titletown Auction Company is running the auction. He salvaged the items from the draft site.
According to Dugan, “We spent three long days there, hauling stuff out, bringing it back here so that could auction it off. At one point I was inside of a dumpster, ankle deep in dumpster liquid pulling out banners and some of the coolest stuff.”
Despite the long hours of work, gathering the material, organizing it and then getting it posted online – Dugan plans to donate the proceeds of the sale to the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of the American Red Cross.
“As a volunteer, the Red Cross means a lot to me. I get to see first hand the effect they have for the local community and that was important to me too to try and help them out,” said Dugan.
On the morning the auction was scheduled to end, there was about $17,000 worth of interest. Dugan said historically auctions like this, in the last few hours, usually double in revenue.
It’s money the Red Cross says it could always use.
Rebecca Rockhill, executive director of the Northeast Chapter of the American Red Cross said, “Any type of a donation to the Red Cross, especially when we look at disaster services makes a tremendous impact. When we look at the Spring storms that we’ve had, many of the recent home fires that we’ve had, any type of donation allows us to help more people.”
While sending auction winners home with a piece of history.