And behind it all was legendary coach Vince Lombardi, for whom the Superbo Summary: The biography of Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi, showing a man striving for excellence in, and caught in the tensions of the three priorities in his life: faith, family, and football. Growing up a Cleveland Browns fan in the 1960's, if there was any team that quenched our hopes in the Jim Brown era, it was the Green Bay Packers quarterbacked by Bart Starr, with Hornung and Taylor in the backfield. Summary: The biography of Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi, showing a man striving for excellence in, and caught in the tensions of the three priorities in his life: faith, family, and football. I reflected on my own football fan of a father who reached adulthood in the late 40's and fully embraced the Lombardi mystique and ethos of hard work and roughly hewn edges.more There was a fair amount of nostalgia here for me. I think the relationships between Lombardi and his family and players are exceptionally well drawn and if you are interested in a really good biography without all the minutia of the x's and o's of football then this is an excellent read. The second issue was, that as a football fan, I felt the description of the individual games could have been more dramatic. While the book was laid out chronologically it was easy to get lost in the years and months of Lombardi's life. First, there was a tendency to omit timelines.
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There are only two reasons that I did not give this book the full five stars. He treats every period of Lombardi's life evenly which I guess is largely how we remember our own lives. In fact there are only a few pages on these monumental achievements in an otherwise lengthy book. You might think there would be several chapters on the Packer's two Super Bowl wins. I think the genius of Marannis's writing lies in a consistent narrative. After reading When Pride Still Mattered, I came away feeling like I knew Lombardi and the arc of his life which is the goal of most biographers. He treats every Marannis is an excellent and thorough biographer.
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Marannis is an excellent and thorough biographer. In When Pride Still Mattered, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.more
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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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His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. 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. 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 In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.
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In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God.