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Vincent Thomas Lombardi (/ l əm ˈ b ɑːr d i / ləm-BAR-dee; June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American professional football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL).
The Packers fortunes turned around with the hiring of head coach Vince Lombardi in 1959. [9] Lombardi would go on to lead the Packers for nine seasons, winning five championships ( 1961 , 1962 , 1965 , 1966 , and 1967 ) and winning almost three-fourths of his games coached. [ 10 ]
Winning coach Team Opponent Losing coach Score Site January 15, 1967 I: Vince Lombardi: Green Bay Packers: Kansas City Chiefs: Hank Stram: 35–10 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles: January 14, 1968 II: Vince Lombardi (2) Green Bay Packers: Oakland Raiders: John Rauch: 33–14 Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida: January 12, 1969 III ...
In fact they are an autocracy, run by Vince Lombardi. In 1949, when the team was floundering financially, more than $125,000 was raised in a statewide campaign, citizens buying non-dividend shares ...
Vince Lombardi was posthumously inducted in 1973 after coaching the Packers to five championships James Lofton played nine seasons with the Packers, was inducted in 2003 Charles Woodson, who played seven seasons with the Packers, was inducted in 2021
A Pennsylvania library finally saw the return of a book that was last checked out in 1973, a chronicle of Packers coaching legend Vince Lombardi.
[7] [11] In 1954, Verne Lewellen, a former player for the Packers, was hired as the team's first standalone general manager. [12] In the years following Lewellwn's tenure, the general manager title was joined with the head coach. This included the tenures of Vince Lombardi, Phil Bengtson, Dan Devine and Bart Starr from 1959 to 1980. [7]
The Super Bowl trophy is named after former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, who led the team to wins in the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi died from cancer in 1970, and the league changed ...