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...VINCE LOMBARDI He was the essence of coach, this gruff, gap-toothed tyrant-with-a-heart-of-gold who forged championships--five in seven seasons--not from brilliant constellations of X's and O's but from his total commitment to the concept of a team. The Packers "didn't do it for individual glory," Lombardi once said. "They did it because they loved one another." Maybe so--but Green Bay lineman Jerry Kramer saw it differently: "The difference between being a good football team and a great football team," he wrote of Lombardi, "was only...
...took a 6-5 lead in the top of the eighth on Jennifer Lombardi's sacrifice fly, and things may have been worse for Harvard if not for an outstanding defensive play by sophomore Tara Dunn and Teller...
...Lombardi's, 32 Spring St., between Mott and Mulberry Streets (941-7994): Little Italy has grown increasingly littler and less Italian over the years, but New York's oldest pizzeria shows no signs of flagging. Located near the upper end of Mulberry Street, where the feel is more neighborhood and less theme park, Lombardi's serves the best pizza in the city (a close runner-up is Patsy Grimaldi's, just under the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge). For $12.50, a large basic pie (mozzarella, cheese, basil) feeds two. If the weather's warm enough...
...foursome didn't mesh from the outset, and Seifert was replaced during the season with insider Mike Lombardi, who likely will return to his off-air research role next season...
DIED. RAY NITSCHKE, 61, rock-solid middle linebacker for the Green Bay Packers who anchored the defense of the Lombardi-era championship teams; of a heart attack; in Venice...