INDIANAPOLIS – Every scout has a story.
Ted Thompson sold stocks and bonds before former Houston Oilers teammate Mike Reinfeldt introduced him to Ron Wolf and opened Thompson’s eyes to the world of player personnel evaluation.
John Schneider wrote letters to Wolf while attending college at the University of St. Thomas (Minn.), pleading to the Packers’ personnel patriarch for an internship in his department.
As for Brian Gutekunst, the new Packers general manager was bartending at the Cedar Creek Country Club when opportunity came knocking in 1997.
The messenger was John Dorsey, Green Bay’s straight-talking director of college scouting whom Wolf had deputized to find the Packers a fresh crop of scouting assistants after their Super Bowl XXXI victory.