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...said after the Super Bowl that he was "going to take a long, hard look" at himself, and Vince Lombardi, 54, has the most piercing gaze in the game. What he saw convinced him to step down as coach of the champion Green Bay Packers after a nine-year reign during which he drove a hapless, last-place club to a record of 97 victories, 31 losses, four ties, six conference titles, five National Football League championships, and two triumphs in the Super Bowl. Lombardi will devote all his time to his other job as general manager of the profitable...
...that's the way it is when you're the champion. Lew Alcindor knows it; so does Vince Lombardi. And so, in his own league, does Bill Murphy...
...game was hardly super, but neither was the action as one-sided as the score seemed to show. "That Oakland is a good, well-coached team," said Green Bay Coach Vince Lombardi, after his N.F.L.-champion Packers drubbed the A.F.L.-champion Raiders 33-14 in last week's Super Bowl. Lombardi had no such kind words last year for the Kansas City team that the Packers defeated (35-10) in the first Super Bowl. Oakland was clearly a classier club. The Raiders tallied 16 first downs to Green Bay's 19 (one of which came on a penalty...
...gracefully. Said Quarterback Lamonica: "It was a day of learning." The Packers, richer by $15,000 a man, were already thinking about the future. Talk had it that several oldtimers would retire, among them Flanker McGee, a star for twelve years. But the biggest conjecture of all concerned Coach Lombardi, who in nine years has turned the Packers from the patsies of the N.F.L. into the most successful team in pro football history. One report had Lombardi giving up coaching but retaining his Green Bay general manager's job; another had him heading a syndicate to buy the A.F.L...
Three days later, there he was, talking about next season, about maybe changing his offense ("We might go to the old tight-T"), about his plethora of talented running backs, about his rookie quarterback prospect, Don Horn ("He'll be a great one some day"). Reports of Vince Lombardi's retirement may be greatly exaggerated...