The Packers are raising ticket prices for the 2011 season. Season ticket holders are being notified that tickets between the 20-yard-lines will increase from $83 to $87. Other sideline seats will go up $3 from $73 to $76 and end zone seats will be raised $2 from $67 to $69. Suite tickets will also increase $4 to $87.

According to an anonymous member of the Packers, Brett Favre wants to find a way to reach out to Super Bowl-winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers. "This is one of those situations where Brett can't win," the player said. "If he calls Aaron it looks like he's grandstanding. If he doesn't, he seems like he's selfish and inconsiderate. "I can tell you Brett wants to speak to Aaron. He really does and it's sincere. I don't know if they've spoken yet. I just know Brett wants to bury the hatchet." Rodgers reportedly hasn't forgotten how Favre treated him for three years in Green Bay. "No question. The big issue is will Aaron want to take the call. That I don't know. The bitterness remains deep."

The Packers and coach Mike McCarthy are closing in on a three-year contract extension that would keep him with the team through the 2015 season. The deal will pay McCarthy about $5 million annually, approximately a $1 million bump from his 2010 salary, according to a report in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. It's believed the extension will make the 47-year-old among the 10 highest-paid coaches in the NFL.

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett has hired Packers wide receivers coach Jimmy Robinson as assistant head coach/wide receivers coach on Friday, less than a week after the Packers won Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium. Robinson, who has been in the NFL since 1990, replaces Ray Sherman. Sherman coached the Cowboys' wide receivers from 2007-10. Garrett and Robinson were together with the New York Giants in 2000-03, when Garrett was the backup quarterback and Robinson was the wide receivers coach.

The Packers have signed general manager Ted Thompson to a multiyear extension. Thompson, 58, took over as general manager in 2005. The Packers beat the Steelers 31-25 on Sunday to win the Super Bowl, just the second time a No. 6 seed has accomplished the feat. "This is a great organization and I am very humbled and appreciative," Thompson said in a statement. "Green Bay is a special place and I am honored to work with such a great group of people that have all contributed to our success."

Packers linebacker Clay Matthews will present at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Matthews, who drew nearly as much attention for his long hair as for his skills on defense, has a busy week with appearances scheduled for "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

Nevada sports books hung on to win just over $724,000 from Super Bowl XLV bets despite heavy gambling on the Packers and lots of scoring. The Nevada Gaming Control Board said Tuesday that $87.5 million were wagered on the NFL's championship game in 183 sports books across the state. The Packers were a 2?-point favorite in most Las Vegas casinos, giving their supporters a win with the six-point victory.

Tickets for Green Bay's Super Bowl XLV celebration sold out in a matter of hours. Fans bought out all 50,000 seats to Tuesday's celebration at Lambeau Field despite frigid temperatures. Tickets to the "Return to Titletown" event went on sale Monday morning for $5 each and were sold out by that evening, team spokesman Aaron Popkey said. They were selling on the online ticket sales site StubHub on Tuesday for as much as $140.

Sunday's Super Bowl between Green Bay and Pittsburgh set an American television record with 111 million viewers. It's the second year in a row that the NFL's championship game has set a television record. Last year, 106.5 million watched the Saints defeat the Colts. The series finale of "M-A-S-H" had held the title of the most-watched TV show in the United States for 27 years. It is now No. 3.

Super Bowl XLV between the Packers and Steelers has surpassed last year's record-setting game in the Nielsen Co.'s preliminary ratings measurement of big cities. Last year's game between New Orleans and Indianapolis established itself as the most-watched program in U.S. television history, with 106.5 million viewers. An overnight measurement of the nation's 56 largest media markets, this year's game had a 3 percent higher rating than last year's.