What was the significance of the Packers' victory in the 1961 NFL Championship Game?

September 9, 2022 — For a special feature in the September Issue, I wrote about legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, specifically detailing the great ... Jun 11, 2013 ... Bart Starr, Willie Davis and Paul Hornung discuss why Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest coaches in NFL history. Coach Vince Lombardi was known as a maker of champions. His spirit ... Lombardi's status as the greatest football coach in history. Tragedy struck ... Lombardi began by asking an unusual question—so unusual it was probably never asked before, and has probably never been asked since, by any football coach in ... Aug 31, 2020 ... Vince Lombardi was a legendary football coach who is remembered for his refusal to tolerate losing. In fact, what most people remember about ... As head coach and general manager, he drafted and recruited some of the greatest black players in the league. By 1967, the Packers fielded a squad with 13 black ... No coach in National Football League history achieved more success in less time than Lombardi did during his nine seasons in Green Bay. He won five NFL ... As the legendary American football coach Vince Lombardi once said: “Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through ... Vince Lombardi was an American football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers ... Sep 4, 1970 ... The Redskins had long been losers. But Vincent Thomas Lombardi had never associated with losers in his 31 years as a football coach. Last year, ...