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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...
Many kind thanks for your splendid article on Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers...
Offers Galore. There are times when Lombardi admits to a loneliness and a yearning for tall buildings. ''I'm a city man." he says. "I still go back to New York by myself now and then, just to take a room at the Waldorf and sit-surrounded by the city." Any time Lombardi wants to quit, he can take his pick of offers from half a dozen other pro teams. The latest, from the last-place Los Angeles Rams: $100,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of life insurance, title to a furnished house, and, natch...
...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...