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When Pride Still Mattered
A Life of Vince Lombardi
Author: David Maraniss
September 2000 · Paperback
544 Pages
PUBLISHER COMMENTS:
More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin.
His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning.
David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.
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