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When Pride Still Mattered

A Life Of Vince Lombardi

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 From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Path Lit by Lightning comes a groundbreaking biography that captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.

More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning. Coaching Football (American) Historical Sports
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As above. Hard to enjoy when the narrator was so monotone, I could only listen when out walking else I'd fall asleep.

Narrator with a voice for insomnia!

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This is a very intersting biography of the man who lead the Green Bay Packers to the first two Super Bowl titles. The trophy now bears his name. But where did the legend begin?

This biography follows Lombardi from high school coach to Army coach and as an assistant on the coaching staff of the New York Giants and then onto Green Bay before his final year as head coach of the Washington Redskins.

On the New York Giants staff was Tom Landry who, as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, faced Lombardi and the Packers in the infamous 'Ice-Bowl' (1967 NFL Championship Game). Maraniss sets the scene so well that you can almost feel your fingertips start to freeze. It was a game that some thought would not go ahead because of the cold but the game became legendary in the history of the NFL.

Maraniss also sets the record straight concerning some of Coach Lombardi's famous quotations ~ and how that they have been taken out of context and even contradict his strong family ideals.

A great audiobook and a must for NFL fans who want to learn more about this great coach.

The King of Titletown

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Monotonal narration, didnt fix my attention.

Wanted insights on leadership and a critique of his character, instead I got chronological overview of Lombardis career.

Wanted leadership insights not life story

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a must for any Packer fan, but worth listening to for all. a story of succeeding and selfless determination to be the best for the team, not the individual

legend

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