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...Vincent Lombardi set out to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood, but along the way he discovered another religion: football. To it, he brought his special brand of apostolic dedication and evangelical fervor. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing," was Lombardi's creed, and the scourge was his method. He elevated coaching to the level of mysticism, and his principal disciples-the Green Bay Packers-became the most spectacularly successful team in the history of professional football. Under his messianic lash, the Packers were the rulers of their brutal profession for nearly a decade...
...Lombardi temporarily retired from coaching in 1968 to devote himself to the duties of general manager at Green Bay. But he paced the practice field like a caged grizzly bear, and when the Washington Redskins offered him a head coaching job (and 5% ownership), Lombardi leaped at the chance. Last year he transformed a dispirited collection of losers into a winning team (7-5-2). Said Vince: "What I missed most was -well, it wasn't the tension or the crowds or the game on Sunday. There's a great closeness on a football team-a rapport between...
Vince's football genius was not the intricate, intellectual sort exemplified by the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry or Los Angeles Rams' George Allen. His play books were slim: his orthodoxy stressed basics. "Football is two things, blocking and tackling," Lombardi liked to say. "You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." In the Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost...
...Gabor, also is a believer. Actor John Forsythe, a tennis nut, says that his tennis elbow was cured by the bracelet. "I know some people say it's kooky to believe this," he says, "but I really think somehow it works. I don't know how." Vince Lombardi, coach of the Washington Redskins, and Jockey Johnny Longden agree; both are wearers...
...athletics and all sports, Italian-Americans stand out. The late Rocky Marciano, undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, and a native of Brockton, comes to mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...