GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Both executives who led their teams to the Super Bowl have deep ties to Green Bay and the Packers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seattle Seahawks General Manager John Schneider and New England Patriots Executive Vice President Eliot Wolf are about a decade apart in age. But they both grew up in the Green Bay area, with many similarities in their paths.<\/p>\n
A DePere native, Schneider attended what was then Abbott Pennings High School, where he was Class of 1989.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he was a state qualifier in track, but football was what he went on and played in college,\u201d said Notre Dame Academy Director of Business Operations Ken Flaten, who previously was an athletic director at Premontre High School and Notre Dame Academy. \u201cAfter he graduated, he played for one year at Saint Thomas (Minnesota) before he got hurt. So, football was his big thing, and he was a running back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abbott Pennings merged into what became known as Notre Dame Academy. Eliot Wolf was Class of 2000 there.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could always see that he was going to have a knack and a niche, that he loved being in this line of work with evaluating players,\u201d said Flaten.<\/p>\n
That knack was understandable. Eliot Wolfs\u2019s dad, Ron, is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame for his tenure as general manager of the Packers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had heard the story that Eliot had started writing reports and working in the draft room with his dad between 10 and 13 years old,\u201d said Flaten. \u201cYou just figured he was going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider worked for the Packers as a scout under Ron Wolf from 1993-\u201896. He returned to the Packers as a top aide to Ted Thompson from 2002-\u201809. Eliot Wolf worked in scouting and personnel for the Packers for 14 years, from 2004 until 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think these guys knew that this is something they wanted to do,\u201d said Flaten. \u201cAnd when they work at it, look what they can rise to. They\u2019re people people. They really can build relationships and look at the success they\u2019ve gotten because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider even remembers babysitting Eliot Wolf in Green Bay. Now, they\u2019re leading their respective teams to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 Both executives who led their teams to the Super Bowl have deep ties to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1615,1613,15638,7,41,345,2514,2513,88,6,428,9,1004,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-709982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-dennis-krause","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115969492869962676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}