Bob McGinn is in his 39th year covering the Packers, but this year is different: He’s not welcome in the press box.

McGinn, who left the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this year and launched his own site, BobMcGinnFootball.com, is not being credentialed by the Packers this season....

Different teams have different approaches to credentialing. Some generally credential only traditional media like newspapers, magazines and television stations. Others credential websites, even small websites without much readership.

PFT  wrote:

Packers usually don't credential someone who's not a professional. And by professional they deem it as someone being paid for the privilege of reporting. Otherwise, every Tom, Dick and Harry (HI!!!) would be trying to get into the press box.

This really isn't surprising at all when you see the big picture.

I wasn't accepted either and our website is more snazzy than Bob's!!

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 

I read that article earlier in the day and I don’t know what to make of it.
I think very highly of McGinn, he is a fellow YOOPER who has done good and isn’t a company toad.
He tells it like it is.
Now that I know he has a website with a small following, I will be a follower.

Originally Posted by: yooperfan 

Lame. They should show respect, but they don't because McGinn jinxed them that year when Aaron broke his collarbone.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

I just thought this was interesting... and how teams come to the decisions of whom to give credentials too, and whom they decline credentials too.

I'd like to know what teams give them to small websites without much readership... because I might start a website for that team just to get media credentials... and maybe go to a game or two (especially if they play the Packers).

Originally Posted by: beast