When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi

Title: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
Author: David Maraniss
G: 1704486
ISBN: 9780684870182
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 544
Section: Sports & Recreation | Football
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.