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When Pride Still Mattered

When Pride Still Mattered

Author: David Maraniss

Book Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used/Good

Pages: 541

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Description for WHEN PRIDE STILL MATTERED:  A LIFE OF VINCE LOMBARDI by David Maraniss:

In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss 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.

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