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...ironic that Green Bay, which has made football a municipal religion, has become a purgatory for its coach. Part of the reason is that the ghost of the revered Vince Lombardi still haunts the town. During the '60s he led the then awesome Packers to five National Football League championships and gave Green Bay an excuse to call itself "Titletown, U.S.A." Even now noon Masses are canceled on Sundays when Packer road games are telecast back home at that hour; music piped through the halls of the local Ramada Inn is supplanted on Sunday afternoons by radio coverage...
Screaming Insults. The Lombardi cult has grown, rather than diminished, since he quit as coach seven years ago. So it did not take long for Green Bay to start comparing Devine unfavorably with Lombardi. Shy and softspoken, he lacks the bluster and magnetism of the late leader. Like any coach fresh from a college campus, he arrived on the chilly shores of Lake Michigan with quite a bit to learn about the pro game...
Impatient Lombardi holdovers on his staff quickly concluded that he was incompetent and let that be known around town. Nevertheless, Devine managed to turn around the losing team he had inherited from Lombardi's immediate successor, Phil Bengtson. He took the Pack to the play-offs his second year in Green Bay and was selected as conference coach of the year...
...social value to contend with. Screen writer Wynn (son of Keenan, grandson of Ed) has in the person of the warden wickedly parodied every businessman who ever exhorted his sales force with sporting metaphors, every overstuffed daddy who has lived out his fantasies of athletic glory by impersonating Vince Lombardi on a Little League field. The difference here is that the man has real guns, real power to extend and with hold favors. He is a genuinely frightening cautionary figure. It is too bad that the lessons his behavior might teach are often lost in the uproar of a movie...
Once a hard-charging guard for the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., Robert D. Lund voices a business philosophy that is pure Vince Lombardi. "The way to win," he says, "is to get out in front and improve your position. When you're green you're growing, but when you're ripe you're next to rotten." His hard sell seemed appropriate enough at General Motors' Chevrolet division, where as general sales manager he set a record of 3 million vehicles sold in 1971, but somewhat out of place at the Cadillac...