This thought came to mind as John Lynch and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah were standing together on the TCO Performance Center practice fields during Thursday's joint workout between Lynch's 49ers and Adofo-Mensah's Vikings:
"Has there ever been two general managers with more opposite backgrounds chatting each other up than these two fellas?"
Lynch was coming off the field when that thought was pitched to him. He smiled and then promptly spiked the query off this reporter's forehead.
"Actually," he said, "I think the big similarity is we came from very different backgrounds to become GMs. Right?