bjectly by while he chewed them out. Few Packers could honestly say that the liked the man; almost all of them, however, in a strange way, loved him. Jerry Kramer, in his book Instant Replay, summed up his feelings for Lombardi:
"I had hated him at times during training camp and I had hated him at times during the season, but I knew how much he had done for us, and I knew how much he cared about us. He is a beautiful man."
Vincent Thomas Lombardi was born in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, New York, to Henry Lombardi, a meat wholesaler who had emigrated from Italy, and Matilda Lombardi. Vince had two sisters and two brothers. As a boy, Vince planned to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood. After he graduated St. Francis Preparatory School, where he was a fullback on the football team, he entered
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