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Ted Thompson, Who Helped Revive the Packers, Is Dead at 68
Jan 24, 2021
Ted 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. Thompson spent eight years in the Packers’ personnel department in the 1990s, when the team rose from its two-decade slumber to regain its swagger with Brett Favre at quarterback and captured a Super Bowl title in the 1996 season. After a five-year stint with the Seattle Seahawks, Thompson returned to Green Bay in 2005 as general manager and immediately made one of his most contentious yet consequential decisions: drafting quarterback Aaron Rodgers out of the University of California, Berkeley, in the first round. Thompson — who eschewed signing free agents, preferring to stockpile draft picks and to take the best player still available in the draft regardless of his position — said he was surprised that Rodgers hadn’t been picked earlier on the first night of the 2005 draft.
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