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...difficult to describe the euphoria now that Lombardi's trophy is home again. However, you got our regular-season standings wrong. The Packers weren't 12-4; they were 13-3! Please don't take away even one morsel of the recognition that our hardworking green-and-gold men deserve. TOBY HENSEL Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
...addition to Carnesale, the Bruin listed Stanford Provost Condolezza Rice, University of Florida President John Lombardi and UCLA Law School Dean Susan Prager as the other finalists. The Bruin article did not name a front-runner...
...been waiting? Well, the numeral on the Super Bowl was II, the A.F.L. and N.F.L. were still two leagues, and Lyndon Johnson was President. Reggie White was six, and Brett Favre hadn't been born yet. Winning was once the only thing in Green Bay, but after Vince Lombardi left in 1968, it became only an occasional thing, even when such legendary Packers as Bart Starr and Forrest Gregg took over as coach. Titletown, U.S.A., became something of a joke. As Willie Davis, the Reggie White of his day, said last week, "I was beginning to think, like...
...Cheesehead is the most obvious example, but at the N.F.C. Conference Game, one could also find guys with sod on their heads calling themselves "the Frozen Tundra"; a dead ringer for legendary linebacker Ray Nitschke, bald head, No. 66 and all; a man with a replica of the Lombardi Trophy given to Super Bowl winners on his head and a sign that read VINCE WANTS IT BACK, and a Cheesehead Barbie doll...
Packers fans weren't thinking that far ahead immediately after the N.F.C. title game. They were linking Lombardi to Holmgren, Starr to Favre, Davis to White, Max McGee to Antonio Freeman, Paul Hornung to Dorsey Levens. "They're over the top now," Hornung said of the new Packers. "They don't have to listen to all the Lombardi stuff anymore. They can bury that, but I know they will bury it with pride...