GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- We all know the Green Bay Packers fell short of making it to Super Bowl LX, but Green Bay will still be represented when teams from Seattle and Foxborough, Massachusetts, face off next month in Santa Clara, California.

Each team has a high-level executive who graduated from the same high school in Green Bay. Well, sort of.

"John went to Abbot Pennings (High School in De Pere), and then Eliot went to Notre Dame (Academy). But in 1990, Abbot Pennings, Premontre High School and St. Joe's Academy merged to become Notre Dame. So, it's all part of our heritage," said Ken Flaten, executive director of business at Notre Dame Academy.

John Schneider is the general manager for the Seattle Seahawks. Eliot Wolf serves as the New England Patriots' executive vice president of player personnel. It's the same role, just a different title.

"Having 32 positions, like you say, and having two of them from there, and having the connection and the relationship that the Packers have with the Green Bay community, both of them having worked together for the Packers. So, they'd gone on there and then got their chances to go elsewhere -- and look at how successful they are," said Flaten.

Flaten has worked at Premontre, and now Notre Dame Academy, since 1979.

"Both of these people, when they were kids, learned how to be people-oriented and to communicate and to be listeners and things like that because look what it's made them for their career," said Flaten.

So, what do you do when your career has been spent in a school that has two alumni competing against one another?

"Who are you rooting for? Somebody asked me that and I said, 'Probably should root for both teams, because they're both there.' I'm just looking forward for a good game, and the way I look at it, Notre Dame can't lose. We got both sides," said Flaten.

Flaten added if the NFC champion Seahawks were to win, that would mean the hometown Packers were a part of the better side of the NFL coin this year.

In addition to those two executives, play-by-play broadcaster Kevin Harlan, the son of former Packers president and CEO Bob Harlan, graduated from Premontre. Harlan will be broadcasting the Super Bowl on the radio.

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This story has been updated to correct the numerals for the Super Bowl to be played in February 2026.