Word: lombardi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christmas baking, cleaning and present wrapping were forgotten when the mailman delivered Coach Lombardi on the cover of TIME...
...guys ever praise anybody or anything without running down somebody else? This time, via the Lombardi story, you overinflate football by the glib expedient of deflating basketball, tennis, hockey, boxing and baseball. Talk about a slow-motion bore: huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, time out, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, squat, pass, incomplete, whistle, penalty, substitution, huddle, slap, squat, shift, pass, fumble, gun, final score: 0-0-and the fans could be all the way to Chicago by jet, and return...
...found no difficulty in convincing students in my class that you had chosen Packer Coach Vince Lombardi as your "Man of the Year." It was a logical, sensible choice...
Many kind thanks for your splendid article on Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers...
...Lombardi's contract still has three years to run at Green Bay. And neither the adulation nor the covetous eyes of other clubs have changed his ways. He is still precisely punctual, expects the same of everybody else. Smart Packers keep their watches set ten minutes ahead of time-"Lombardi time.'' they call it. He still works 70 hours a week, still gets so wrapped up in his football thoughts that he sometimes misses his street on the drive home from the stadium and winds up on the highway to Milwaukee. "I don't think Vince...