GREEN BAY – When Andrew Larsen and Steve Schumer met at Curly's Pub in Lambeau Field during the 2008 NFL draft, they had no idea they'd set off a chain of events that make the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game look like child's play.
Larsen is from Rockford, Illinois, and Schumer from Gillette, New Jersey. Seemingly they had nothing in common except they both were Packers fans, which normally would be enough.
Schumer was an email friend with Dean Koester, a Packers fan who, like Schumer, worked for IBM, but in Atlanta.