NY Times · Jan 24, 2021
Ted Thompson, Who Helped Revive the Packers, Is Dead at 68
Ted Thompson at the Green Bay Packers’ training camp in 2005, the year he returned to the team as general manager after five years with Seattle.Credit...Morry Gash/Associated PressTed Thompson, who as a longtime executive of the Green Bay Packers helped revive one of football’s most enduring dynasties, died on Wednesday at his home in Atlanta, Texas. He was 68.
His death was announced by the Packers.
The team did not specify the cause of death. But after he was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2019, Thompson disclosed that he had been found to have an autonomic disorder, which affects the part of the nervous system that controls involuntary actions like the beating of the heart.
