GREEN BAY — John Dorsey’s imitation of Ted Thompson was horrible. The simple insight he got that day, invaluable.
“One day, Ted was joking with me,” Dorsey, now the Cleveland Browns general manager, recalled recently. He and Thompson had become close friends working together under Green Bay Packers Pro Football Hall of Fame GM Ron Wolf in the 1990s — they even shared a Lambeau Field office for a time — and worked together again in Green Bay after Thompson returned as the Packers’ GM in 2005.
“With his East Texas accent, he goes, ‘Boy, let me tell you one thing: There’s a lot of people who want to sit in that seat.