Lombardi - An Illustrated Life
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
November 2011
Verlag
Krause Pubn IncSeitenzahl
64
Maße (L/B/H)
29.5/23.9/2.8 cm
Gewicht
1134 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4402-1809-5
Vince Lombardi provided the quintessential American success story. The son of an immigrant Italian butcher, he rose to become the greatest coach in NFL history. His character and will to prevail transformed him, his family, his players, his sport and ultimately the entire country. Lombardi is also a vibrant football story, abundant with accounts of Lombardi's thrilling life in that world, from his playing days with the Seven Blocks of Granite at Fordham in the 1930s to the glory of coaching the Green Bay Packers of Starr, Hornung, Taylor, McGee, Davis, and Wood in the 1960s. As the NFL was emerging as ?the sport of choice on television? there was Lombardi's Packers as the dominant team shaping that evolving landscape.
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, on June 11, 1913. His early life was shaped by the trinity of family, religion, and sports; they seemed intertwined, as inseparable to him as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He was deeply influenced by the Jesuits, who taught him the philosophy he later used with his players, subordinating individual desires to a larger cause. The geography of his rise was the opposite of the small-town boy who makes it in the big city. This son of New York did not achieve fame until he took a job in remote Green Bay, Wisconsin, the smallest city in the NFL. He was already forty-six when he was finally hired to coach the hapless Packers in 1959, leading them in the most storied period in NFL history, winning five world championships in nine seasons, including the first two Super Bowls. Just one week after his death September 3, 1970, the NFL renamed its Super Bowl trophy in his honor. Lombardi was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
Lombardi has become a mythic character who transcends sport, and his legend has only grown in the decades since. Many now turn to Lombardi in search of characteristics that they fear have been irretrievably lost, the old-fashioned virtues of discipline, obedience, loyalty, character, and teamwork.
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