GREEN BAY, Wis. — If Seahawks general manager John Schneider didn’t literally grow up in the shadows of Lambeau Field, he didn’t have to walk far to end up in them.
His native De Pere is roughly six miles from the famed field where the Green Bay Packers play, a proximity that colored everything about Schneider’s upbringing and influences him to this day — even if he recently made what might seem a rather surprising confession.
“I wanted to be Walter Payton,” Schneider said, referencing the Hall of Fame running back for the team that may be the Packers’ archest of rivals, the Bears.