When Pride Still Mattered: A Life Of Vince Lombardi

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  • Author : David Maraniss
  • Binding : Paperback
  • EAN : 9780684870182
  • Edition : Reprint
  • ISBN : 0684870185
  • Label : Simon & Schuster
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Simon & Schuster
  • Number Of Pages : 544
  • Package Dimensions : 1.39 inches (Height) x 9.24 inches (Length) x 1.45 pounds (Weight) x 6.20 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2000-09-03
  • Publisher : Simon & Schuster
  • Release Date : 2000-09-03
  • SKU : 9780684870182ING
  • Studio : Simon & Schuster

As coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, Vince Lombardi turned perennial losers into a juggernaut, winning back-to-back NFL titles in 1961 and 1962, and Superbowls I and II in 1966 and 1967. Stern, severe, sentimental, and paternal, he stood revered, reviled, respected, and mocked--a touchstone for the '60s all in one person. Which adds up to the myth we've been left with. But who was the man? That's the question Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss tackles. It begins with Lombardi's looming father, a man as colorful as his son would be conservative. Still, from his father Vince Lombardi learned a sense of presence and authority that could impress itself with just a look. If a moment can sum up and embrace a man's life--and capture the breadth of Maraniss's thoroughness--it is one that takes place off the field when the Packers organization decides to redecorate their offices in advance of the new head coach's arrival: "During an earlier visit," Maraniss reports, "he had examined the quarters--peeling walls, creaky floor, old leather chairs with holes in them, discarded newspapers and magazines piled on chairs and in the corners--and pronounced the setting unworthy of a National Football League club. 'This is a disgrace!' he had remarked." In one moment, one comment, Lombardi announced his intentions, made his vision and professionalism clear, and began to shake up a stale organization. It reveals far more about the man than wins and losses, and is the kind of moment Maraniss uses again and again in this superb resurrection of a figure who so symbolized a sporting era and sensibility. --Jeff Silverman

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