Football Coach Vince Lombardi

Lombardi agreed with McGee's assessment of him. Lombardi viewed football as a special madness and he was proud to be the most committed leader in the game. The men on his team, halfback Paul Hornung, quarterback Bart Starr, guard Jerry Kramer, and fullback Jim Taylor, responded to Lombardi and put aside their personal wishes for the good of the team. Tackle Henry Jordan's often-quoted remark indicated the fairness of Lombardi: "He treats us all the same. Like dogs."

In 1959, he left his job as a New York Giants assistant coach to take charge of the lowly Green Bay Backers. A year earlier, the Packers had won only one game. Brusquely and decisively, Lombardi weeded out the defeatists and the loafers and the complainers. Obsessed with excellence, Lombardi installed his crushing system and convinced the Packers that they could be winners. They won seven of 12 games in his first season and a Western Division title in his second. Then they captured five Nati

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win in the strong National Football League without a good defense. He once said, "A good defense will help the club's morale." Indeed, in Lombardi's first season the Giants scored 293 points and won seven of 12 games, compared to scoring 179 points and losing nine games the year before. Lombardi developed his offense on what he called "the close-end attack" instead of the league's more popular slot-T formation. In the Giants offense, the ends were closer, with a wide flanker instead of halfback being between the tackle and a wide end. In 1956, the Giants won their only NFL championship since 1938. The following year they won the Eastern Conference championship but lost to the Baltimore Colts in the league championship game. In 1959, Lombardi signed a five-year contract as head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers. Lombardi's first impressions of the Green Bay team was that the organization was worse but the team skills were better than he had expected. One of the first things he did was to study movies of past Packer games in order to decide which players to retain and which to discharge. By some shrewd trading, Lombardi picked up four of his first-stringers from the Cleveland Browns. However, the majo
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