Vince Lombardi
Born June 11, 1913
New York, New York
Died September 3, 1970
Washington, D.C.
Football coach
Vince Lombardi, considered by many to be America's greatest football coach, was in many ways more connected to an earlier era. He achieved his greatest fame in a culture that placed increasing value on youth, individuality, and rebelliousness. Yet Lombardi championed teamwork, faith, and discipline. Lombardi rose to national fame after he took charge of the unlucky Green Bay Packers professional football team. In just eight years, he led the team to four league championships and two Super Bowls. During the 1960s, Lombardi became a national folk hero. His pithy comments about winning and losing were heard and discussed across the nation. For every American who sought to be part of the anti-establishment or counterculture movement, there was at least one other who agreed with Lombardi's widely quoted statement: "It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win."
Strict Catholic Upbringing
Lombardi was born into an Italian American family that had lived out the immigrant dream of doing well financiallyin the United States. His father, Enrico, had come to the country from Italy with his parents in 1892, when he was just two years old.
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