Bart Star lived down the street from me as a child. Following his Retirement he bought a simple home in his home town of Montgomery. He was a great player and an even better individual.
I’m 70 years old and grew up cheering for the Great Green Bay Packers; I remember the Ice Bowl and the first Super Bowls. Football was a great game!! Vince Lombardi was a very great man. Thanks for this video!
@@roderickmurray5136 The Cowboys were, are and always will be a great team! I have identified as a Packer fan but Aaron Rodgers almost cured me of that. We will see how they do with a new QB!
I’m 74 and still remember those championships especially the 37 to 0 defeat of the Giants. I’ll swear to this day that team would’ve been great in any era, including today’s era.
I am watching this episode the 2nd time, after watching the whole 60s highlights. This time is more fun after knowing the players more. 70s episode is next GPG Nitschke is funny guy
I was a young fellow in Wisconsin, when Vince came we started to realize that we had a coach that was a common sense Man, we didn't miss a game. , On the radio, anybody remember " this is" Ray Scott " the Green bay PAcker football network, boy were we proud ! It was simply amazing, that a back water of the NFL , could become the best, he sure made us proud ! It rubbed off !
Man, I miss football. As a 50 yr old, I haven't played in over 30 years. I think Apollo said it best in Rocky 3, when he said something to the extent: the warrior inside has to have a battle to go to...or something like that. That warrior spirit never dies. Long live football and the spirit of Coach Lombardi.
No doubt Finally got my fullness grown muscle on 6'1" No wasted MOTION Know I can catch SUPERBOWL WINNING RECEPTIONS AND STIFF ARM FOR MILLIONS NO SWEAT 👍😊💙📃✝️✝️✝️
Me too this is my first season, I already watched super bowl 45, 1 & 2 now watched this and next super bowl 31. Unfortunately there are no recordings of older championships.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and I have to say that the GB Packers, during the 1960s, the Lombardi era........is the greatest dynasty in the history of the NFL🏈
I was raised in Chicago. My best & oldest friend is the Head Groundskeeper for the Chicago Bears! Vince Lombardi made a number of Sunday’s, a sad day for many of Bear Fans. However, V L made many Sundays a sad day, for other NFL cities. I humbly believe, if Paul Hornung wasn’t suspended for gambling in the 1963 season, the Packers would have won another championship! R I P Vince Lombardi & George Halas! Two of the greatest!
I have to believe too that Halas & Lombardi are really the two individuals most responsible for building the rivalry between your Bears & my Packers into what it is now. And both were instrumental in making the NFL into the success it is as well. Two great coaches !
I wish this era of coaches would return, but in the NFL it's not going to happen. Thankfully, the Lombardi Trophy will always remember that! Greatest coach on some of the greatest teams ever.
It was my pleasure being able to follow him and the Green Bay Packers. As soon as I got a taste of the National Football League. He's by far the best coach the NFL has ever had. Paul Brown would be a close second. His Cleveland Browns initially came from a different league, along with the San Francisco 49ers. And coach Brown won the NFL title his initial season in the NFL. Something the NFL really doesn't like mentioning.
I haven't seen the whole video, but Vince Lombardi started in 1959 as head coach of the Green Bay Packers until 1967. In 1968 he acted as general manager of the Green Bay Packers, then in 1969 he coached the Washington Redskins. George Allen took over the Washington Redskins in 1971 and the team went to the Super Bowl in 1972, losing to the undefeated Miami Dolphins. George Allen has one of the highest winning percentages among head coaches with at least 100 games, though he never won a league championship, unlike Vince Lombardi who won five - 1961 (NFL), 1962 (NFL), 1965 (NFL), 1966 (NFL & Super Bowl), 1967 (NFL and Super Bowl) - and lost only one in 1960 (Philadelphia Eagles) in which the Packers fell short by a few yards on the last play. For us old timers, men like Vince Lombardi, Hank Stram, Tom Landry, George Allen, Don Shula, John Madden, Chuck Noll are great men.
I remember reading Jerry's Kramer's Distant Replay, and in one section he quoted former Packer defensive back Herb Adderley regarding whether he often thought about Lombardi. "Every single day," replied Adderley. "And I love my father, who is also deceased, but I don't think about my father every day." I think this one passage illustrates what kind of man Vince Lombardi was.
This and a football life are the 2 best videos out on Coach and the Packers. Coach Lombardi was absolutely made by our Lord to Coach the Green Bay Packers. I really think that Coach died of a broken heart 💔 by leaving the Packers‼️
Isn't that Kevin Harlan narrating? He is the son of Bob Harlan the Packer exec. at the time. By far my favourite play-by-play announcer of NFL games. He is on CBS. What a voice!
So I’m 65. Became a Packer fan the day of “The Ice Bowl” on my knees in our den as #64 move #75 off the line as Starr snuck in with the game winner. Several years later my father called information at got Ray Nitschke’s phone number and we called him up. Guess times were a little different back then. He told us where they were staying and we flew to New Orleans and stayed at the same Hotel. Was able to meet most of the team. A memory I will take to my grave. Could care less how many rings Brady has. The Green Bay Packers were and always will be the greatest most iconic franchise to ever set foot on a gridiron! 💚🏈💛
Look well, act well and play well. His players would have run through a wall for him. He was tough, spoke very well and was charismatic. He demanded excellence.
VL gave the sport a depth and emotional quantum that made it special. To be in football was to be part of something bigger. Still is… kinda lol great man great era
My brother played guard in high school graduating in 1968. I tried to emulate Jerry Kramer. Consequently, he received two books about Jerry Kramer and the backers. One was his autobiography and the second was the great book written that chronicled the 68 season. I still have both those books. I use to read them over and over. I felt like I knew Jerry Kramer personally. I've been a Packer fan ever since. I have the the framed print of the speech Lombardi gave about winning. I was 7 years old in 1968. The world would be a better place our leaders had just 1/10th the character of Lombardi!
I grew up watching the Packers, Colts, Giants, Rams, Raiders, Bears, 49er's. I grew up watching Starr, Unitas. I have wondered, excessively I guess, His love for the Players, the game, Green Bay could he have slowly relinquished some menial roles in the general office to remain more focused as coach while still managing? Maybe by 70-71 and further solidifying Green Bay as the NFL was growing to further solidify Green Bay. Would sharing at least some of those responsibilities (not all) in managing the team and keeping him on the field, would that have anchored Green Bay for several generations and probably even until now or further? Could that have worked as a gradual procession of things? For Coach Lombardi, The Team, Green Bay and all of Wisconsin? Just sad to know it ended the way it did.
None of what he did could have worked with the players if they didn't start to win immediately, but that's exactly what they did. HIs name is on the Super Bowl trophy because he was the greatest head coach of all time, not Belichick (Bart Starr was an excellent qb but in no way was he close to Tom Brady). The Giants not hiring him as head coach is a blunder which caused them nearly 20 years of losing.
The "greatest" NFL Coach in Pro Football history, and a super great man that comes around once in a thousand years! As great a Coach as Lombardi was, if he came back as a Head Coach, these players today, with a few exceptions, would not play for Lombardi. These NFL players today, with a few exceptions, do not have the same mindset as those NFL players of the 1950's and 60's. For example, the best running back or quarterback ever would not think of preferential treatment or holding out for more money on a Lombardi coached team. He would trade that player off immediately and never look back. Players of today have never had the strict discipline, on a continuous basis, that a Lombardi would administer. Coach Lombardi had methods of coaching that "only" players from the 50's and 60's would play under. No slam against todays players, just a different mindset, that's all, the same applies to today's adults as opposed to adults from 5-decades ago.
That "Playoff Bowl" they mentioned was actually a charity game to raise money for the NFL Players Associtaion from 1960-69. It was initially called the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl, named for the former Commissioner who died in 1959. They took the second place teams from each division to play in it. The players from the the winning team got 1000 dollars, and the losers got 500. They renamed it the Playoff Bowl to try to pass it off as like some kind of "bronze medal" game to draw more fans. Today it's listed by the NFL as an exhibition game. It raised more than a million dollars for the NFLPA, a fair amount of money for that time. All the games were played at the Orange Bowl. Although never sellouts it did draw decent crowds a few times and it may have helped Miami get an expansion team in the AFL in 1966.
I'd rather have a "third place" game for charity than a Pro Bowl game. They should have a 3rd place game, with the losers of the Conference Championship games facing off in Miami. Give the money to research for brain injuries and money towards the old players who gave their lives to the game and now have nothing but pain. This year the Pro Bowl is going to be a week of skills competition. Who would watch that? A 3rd Place Game for charity the off week between the Conference Championship and the Super Bowl would get ratings and more importantly raise money for charity.
@@edwardcricchio6106 I looked up Pro Bowls between 1960-1965. They were all played in LA and attendence was about on average 55-60 thousand. Players from winning team got 1900 dollars and losers 950. So almost twice as much as the Playoff Bowl. Also, you had a lot of great players on bad teams and this was their only chance to ever be in a "spotlight" game. From 1966 to 70 it dropped. Here's what I think happened. 1960-65 was pre Super Bowl, all you got for a postseason was a single championship game. So the Pro Bowl might have been that last "football fix" people got before seasons end. But then they added the Super Bowl with the AFL. Then both leagues went to 2 rounds of playoffs to win your league and then the Super Bowl. So after 3 weeks of postseason football, climaxed by the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl really ended up being a non event. And just as much for the Playoff Bowl. But I agree the Pro Bowl should have been nixed a LONG time ago.
@@jacktheripoff1888 It was Lombardi and the Packers who didn't help the Playoff Bowl. He had to play in it when the Packers didn't reach the NFL Championship Game and he hated it and told the press he hated it. He called it a loser's game and ripped the location of the game, too. Thanks for the research. I think all All-Star games in the major sports aren't what they used to be. Fans don't really watch them as they once did. I also know they have done away with all consolation games in most sports, except the Olympics. So they aren't going to do a 3rd place game in the NFL, even though it would be for charity.
@@edwardcricchio6106 Olympics are nothing what they used to be. The Cold War era ones were very intense. Even though the USSR and East Europe sent in full-time athletes and some of them very roided up. A lot of that (the roids) they didn't talk about at the time. The pre-"Dream Team" games meant more for the US. That's why the 1980 Hockey win over the USSR still remains the biggest single sporting event in our history. Even the NHL acknowalaged they were the best team on the planet.
"The NFL had a rule about gambling, they didn't want to be connected to gambling " Hysterical to hear that now, considering the game is now secondary to commercials, gambling and fantasy football.
I have also seen a film of Starr with the first time Lombardi addressed the team, He says " There are planes, buses and trains leaving Green Bay every day, you don't produce for me you'll be on one of them"
Best understatement of all-time......when asked by a reporter after the Ice Bowl about the weather the game was played in ,Cowboy end Lance Rentzel replied," conditions were not ideal ."
It was a shame Paul Hornung did not play in the 1st Super Bowl . Lambardi asked him if he wanted to go in and he declined . Jim Grabowski and Anderson were brought in for the future , I believe Paul was feeling the effects of bring replaced. Everyone on the Packers got on the field that day except Paul . It was a sad way to end his Packer career .
Yeah, but Al blew his chance to get his own trophy by not getting cancer, despite his best efforts. Check that, he did have skin cancer. Pretty obvious now that I think about it.
Are there more videos on the page like this? If so how do I find them, there are soooooo many videos posted daily, just happened to stumble upon this one
The Chiefs were owned by Lamar Hunt, the son of Billionaire Texas oilman HL Hunt. HL was asked by a reporter, “Lamar is losing $1 million a year on the Chiefs; how long can he keep it up”? HL replied, “Well, at current oil prices, about 285 years”.
(25:11ff.) "Fuzzy Thurston at left guard. He wasn't a Hall of Famer but he did a heck of a job." ...Actually in that first Championship year under Lombardi, 1961, Thurston was voted first team All Pro, along with Ringo, Hornung, Forrester, Whittenton, and Jordan. Of the six Packer All Pros that year, three eventually made it into the Hall of Fame: Jordan, Ringo, and Hornung.
One big mistake Dallas made on that final Green Bay drive of the Ice Bowl was staying in their man-to-man defense. Their linebackers were slipping all over the place trying to cover the backs coming out of the Green Bay backfield.
It's always interesting to play what if with the great ones, such as the Yankees great relief pitcher Mariano Rivera and say what if he struck out Sandy Alomar in 1997? What if he struck out Tony Womack in 2001? What if he got the Red Sox 1,2,3 in 2004? The same thing could be said about Paul Hornung. What if he was not knocked out of the 1960 Championship game by Bednarik? What if he didn't gamble and miss the 1963 season? What if he didn't miss all those field goals/kicks vs the Colts in those 2 games in 1964? A case could be made in that what if scenario for Vince winning 8 consecutive championships from 1960 thru 1967 if Paul had done a few things differently. Just saying!
So Packer fans,did I get this right? 60 lose to Philly. 61 beat Giants. 62 beat Philly and get revenge 63 no championship 64 no championship 65 beat Cleveland 66 beat Chiefs in Super Bowl 1(beat Dallas on Mederith pick in endzone in NFC Championship). 67 beat Raiders in SB 2(beat Dallas in icebowl in NFC Championship).
Lombardi demanded loyalty from players. Which is ridiculous. After all, he was quick enough to get rid of a player if he found a better replacement. And rightfully so. Pro sports is a brutal business.
Wellington Mara was planning to let Jim Lee Howell in a year or two and replace him with Lombardi.. He kept it a secret and Lombardi went to the packers who did not have a human owner with an ego but were owned by a group of investors who lived in Green Bay. Lombardi was made HC and GM of the Packers. He had total and absolute control. So when the Giants called him in 1961 to offer him the HC job in NY he said no. Lombardi realized he would never be happy working for a meddling owner, and that he would not achieve success with someone looking over his shoulder.
In the Army a Sergeant has already done what he orders soldiers to do this guy never did none of what he ordered his men to do he just barked out orders using some manual/playbook as his guideline.
Why does a guy from Brooklyn, who won titles in Wisconsin, have a service area named for him in Englewood,NJ, while an Englewood guy won 2 Super Bowls for the LOCAL team?
That's right, and I heard that if Jerry Kramer didn't make that block, Lombardi was gonna make him remove said pants with his teeth. But Jerry gladly did it anyway....just out of respect.
Bart Star lived down the street from me as a child. Following his Retirement he bought a simple home in his home town of Montgomery. He was a great player and an even better individual.
Vince Lomabrdi will always Reign as #1,coach of all time . A man of n ultimate integrity and discipline. MAN of Respect!!!
Could not agree more. Greatest coach of all time, End of story
Don Shula too
@abberoberts6894 Don't forget 'bout Paul Brown neither!!!!.
That coach for the Patriots all those years, forgot his name.
NY Packer fan here. Those teams in the 1960’s were something special, amazing players with class & strength of character. IMO Lombardi is the 🐐.
Great Documentary about a truly great man.
I met Ray Nitshke and Willie Wood, very cool for a little boy who was a big Green Bay fan growing up in WI.
I’m 70 years old and grew up cheering for the Great Green Bay Packers; I remember the Ice Bowl and the first Super Bowls. Football was a great game!! Vince Lombardi was a very great man. Thanks for this video!
Ice Bowl made me a Cowboys fan.....i am 65
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The Cowboys were, are and always will be a great team! I have identified as a Packer fan but Aaron Rodgers almost cured me of that. We will see how they do with a new QB!
I felt bad for the players and fans playing in the ice ball.
I’m 74 and still remember those championships especially the 37 to 0 defeat of the Giants. I’ll swear to this day that team would’ve been great in any era, including today’s era.
I was at the Ice Bowl. Dallas never really mounted a drive the whole game. No one doubted we'd win. No one....
I am watching this episode the 2nd time, after watching the whole 60s highlights. This time is more fun after knowing the players more. 70s episode is next GPG
Nitschke is funny guy
I was a young fellow in Wisconsin, when Vince came we started to realize that we had a coach that was a common sense Man, we didn't miss a game. , On the radio, anybody remember " this is" Ray Scott " the Green bay PAcker football network, boy were we proud ! It was simply amazing, that a back water of the NFL , could become the best, he sure made us proud ! It rubbed off !
This brought back wonderful memories of the Packers. My family moved back to WI just in time to love the Lombardi era!
I’m from Nebraska so I don’t support a specific nfl team. I’m learning history before anything and I’m loving the packers❤️🤌🏼
Man, I miss football. As a 50 yr old, I haven't played in over 30 years. I think Apollo said it best in Rocky 3, when he said something to the extent: the warrior inside has to have a battle to go to...or something like that. That warrior spirit never dies. Long live football and the spirit of Coach Lombardi.
As a 71 yr old from WI me too....
No doubt
Finally got my fullness grown muscle on 6'1"
No wasted MOTION
Know I can catch SUPERBOWL WINNING RECEPTIONS AND STIFF ARM FOR MILLIONS
NO SWEAT 👍😊💙📃✝️✝️✝️
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. Vince Lombardi... they don't make them I i ke him any more...
It never gets out of your blood.
I'm a new Packers fan and new to the NFL in general so these are amazing.
I'm glad you are learning the great history of the team, being a new fan. It makes being a fan better knowing their long tradition.
Welcome
Whodey?
Welcome from a season ticket holder 👋 GO PACK GO!!!
Me too this is my first season, I already watched super bowl 45, 1 & 2 now watched this and next super bowl 31. Unfortunately there are no recordings of older championships.
Jim Taylor was a mighty horse! Determined to go forward!
"Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing." Special man , take his philosophy into whatever you do ,winning is guaranteed!!!
There's a reason the trophy is named after this man. I love that man to this day
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@DavesMx6- How do you think I feel? My grandmother and Vince's mother were first cousins. Family connections my whole life.
I'm a Tom Landry-era Dallas Cowboys fan, and I have to say that
the GB Packers, during the 1960s, the Lombardi era........is the greatest dynasty
in the history of the NFL🏈
Lombardi was the greatest
At 3:12 ,Lombardi / Landry were the OC/DC at the NY Giants . They won the 1956 NFL championship together under head coach Jim Lee Howell .
Go pack go
Need more coaches in the NFL like Lombardi to fight against wokeness
Richard Nixon wanted Lombardi as a running mate vs Humphrey in 1968. That's how big he was. One problem. Lombardi was a lifelong Democrat.
I was raised in Chicago. My best & oldest friend is the Head Groundskeeper for the Chicago Bears!
Vince Lombardi made a number of Sunday’s, a sad day for many of Bear Fans. However, V L made many Sundays a sad day, for other NFL cities.
I humbly believe, if Paul Hornung wasn’t suspended for gambling in the 1963 season, the Packers would have won another championship!
R I P Vince Lombardi & George Halas! Two of the greatest!
Jim Zielinski There's room for another and his name is PAUL BROWN!!!.
I have to believe too that Halas & Lombardi are really the two individuals most responsible for building the rivalry between your Bears & my Packers into what it is now. And both were instrumental in making the NFL into the success it is as well. Two great coaches !
Kevin Harlan's narration is excellent
Thay don't make em like this anymore love coach Lombardi so inspiring.
Well said
I wish this era of coaches would return, but in the NFL it's not going to happen. Thankfully, the Lombardi Trophy will always remember that! Greatest coach on some of the greatest teams ever.
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It was my pleasure being able to follow him and the Green Bay Packers. As soon as I got a taste of the National Football League. He's by far the best coach the NFL has ever had. Paul Brown would be a close second. His Cleveland Browns initially came from a different league, along with the San Francisco 49ers. And coach Brown won the NFL title his initial season in the NFL. Something the NFL really doesn't like mentioning.
I haven't seen the whole video, but Vince Lombardi started in 1959 as head coach of the Green Bay Packers until 1967. In 1968 he acted as general manager of the Green Bay Packers, then in 1969 he coached the Washington Redskins.
George Allen took over the Washington Redskins in 1971 and the team went to the Super Bowl in 1972, losing to the undefeated Miami Dolphins. George Allen has one of the highest winning percentages among head coaches with at least 100 games, though he never won a league championship, unlike Vince Lombardi who won five - 1961 (NFL), 1962 (NFL), 1965 (NFL), 1966 (NFL & Super Bowl), 1967 (NFL and Super Bowl) - and lost only one in 1960 (Philadelphia Eagles) in which the Packers fell short by a few yards on the last play.
For us old timers, men like Vince Lombardi, Hank Stram, Tom Landry, George Allen, Don Shula, John Madden, Chuck Noll are great men.
Men who knew themselves which today we don’t have🙏
Hank Stram was a great announcer. With Jack Buck .
I remember reading Jerry's Kramer's Distant Replay, and in one section he quoted former Packer defensive back Herb Adderley regarding whether he often thought about Lombardi. "Every single day," replied Adderley. "And I love my father, who is also deceased, but I don't think about my father every day."
I think this one passage illustrates what kind of man Vince Lombardi was.
This is so great! Such an amazing coach and leader!
An excellent documentary about an exceptional man. Thank you!
Thank you Vince 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
This and a football life are the 2 best videos out on Coach and the Packers. Coach Lombardi was absolutely made by our Lord to Coach the Green Bay Packers. I really think that Coach died of a broken heart 💔 by leaving the Packers‼️
Isn't that Kevin Harlan narrating? He is the son of Bob Harlan the Packer exec. at the time. By far my favourite play-by-play announcer of NFL games. He is on CBS. What a voice!
Harlan's a legend already.
Yep that's him.
So I’m 65. Became a Packer fan the day of “The Ice Bowl” on my knees in our den as #64 move #75 off the line as Starr snuck in with the game winner. Several years later my father called information at got Ray Nitschke’s phone number and we called him up. Guess times were a little different back then. He told us where they were staying and we flew to New Orleans and stayed at the same Hotel. Was able to meet most of the team. A memory I will take to my grave. Could care less how many rings Brady has. The Green Bay Packers were and always will be the greatest most iconic franchise to ever set foot on a gridiron! 💚🏈💛
Look well, act well and play well. His players would have run through a wall for him. He was tough, spoke very well and was charismatic. He demanded excellence.
VL gave the sport a depth and emotional quantum that made it special. To be in football was to be part of something bigger. Still is… kinda lol great man great era
My brother played guard in high school graduating in 1968. I tried to emulate Jerry Kramer. Consequently, he received two books about Jerry Kramer and the backers. One was his autobiography and the second was the great book written that chronicled the 68 season. I still have both those books. I use to read them over and over. I felt like I knew Jerry Kramer personally. I've been a Packer fan ever since. I have the the framed print of the speech Lombardi gave about winning. I was 7 years old in 1968. The world would be a better place our leaders had just 1/10th the character of Lombardi!
9:59 - 10:05 that was what my grandfather taught me when i was a kid. he was the kind of man Lombardi would have loved.
These are great so far
I grew up watching the Packers, Colts, Giants, Rams, Raiders, Bears, 49er's.
I grew up watching Starr, Unitas.
I have wondered, excessively I guess, His love for the Players, the game, Green Bay could he have slowly relinquished some menial roles in the general office to remain more focused as coach while still managing? Maybe by 70-71 and further solidifying Green Bay as the NFL was growing to further solidify Green Bay.
Would sharing at least some of those responsibilities (not all) in managing the team and keeping him on the field, would that have anchored Green Bay for several generations and probably even until now or further? Could that have worked as a gradual procession of things? For Coach Lombardi, The Team, Green Bay and all of Wisconsin?
Just sad to know it ended the way it did.
Well done, thank you!
None of what he did could have worked with the players if they didn't start to win immediately, but that's exactly what they did. HIs name is on the Super Bowl trophy because he was the greatest head coach of all time, not Belichick (Bart Starr was an excellent qb but in no way was he close to Tom Brady). The Giants not hiring him as head coach is a blunder which caused them nearly 20 years of losing.
I'm a lifelong Packer fan but that field goal at 53:20 is wide right and you can tell by the kicker's reaction he knew it too.
I am too and I totally agree. He definitely missed it.
Ditto
That's why the uprights were raised the following year.
I am a Colts fan and you are right ! But they were the best team in that decade without a doubt !
Great coach probably the greastest of all time and a great human being as well that's a hard combo to find
He could spot talent. A number of those great Packers were not blue chip 1st round picks to my recollection.
What is the criteria for being the GOAT?
Seeing how bad the packers we’re before he got there and how bad things got after he left and sadly died…he made the packers
The "greatest" NFL Coach in Pro Football history, and a super great man that comes around once in a thousand years! As great a Coach as Lombardi was, if he came back as a Head Coach, these players today, with a few exceptions, would not play for Lombardi. These NFL players today, with a few exceptions, do not have the same mindset as those NFL players of the 1950's and 60's. For example, the best running back or quarterback ever would not think of preferential treatment or holding out for more money on a Lombardi coached team. He would trade that player off immediately and never look back. Players of today have never had the strict discipline, on a continuous basis, that a Lombardi would administer. Coach Lombardi had methods of coaching that "only" players from the 50's and 60's would play under. No slam against todays players, just a different mindset, that's all, the same applies to today's adults as opposed to adults from 5-decades ago.
13 hall of fame players on that 1-10 -1 team
Before Lombardi got there. After just winning.. in his 2nd yr the NFL championship, 3rd , THEY WON AND KEPT WINNING
@@mariocisneros911 His first team was 7-5 ( 12 game season at the time) and he was coach of the year in 1959
Greatest of all time
Jim Taylor is barely mentioned. The first running back to rush for 1000 yards 5 seasons in a row!
Yeah and what in ten , twelve games a year . When it meant something
And he beat Jim Brown out of a rushing title for the only time Brown played
LOMBARDI WAS SO AWSOME , WHAT LEADERSHIP VERY SPECIAL.
His son knows he was discriminated against… greatest of all time Lombardi ❤
That "Playoff Bowl" they mentioned was actually a charity game to raise money for the NFL Players Associtaion from 1960-69. It was initially called the Bert Bell Benefit Bowl, named for the former Commissioner who died in 1959. They took the second place teams from each division to play in it. The players from the the winning team got 1000 dollars, and the losers got 500. They renamed it the Playoff Bowl to try to pass it off as like some kind of "bronze medal" game to draw more fans. Today it's listed by the NFL as an exhibition game. It raised more than a million dollars for the NFLPA, a fair amount of money for that time. All the games were played at the Orange Bowl. Although never sellouts it did draw decent crowds a few times and it may have helped Miami get an expansion team in the AFL in 1966.
I'd rather have a "third place" game for charity than a Pro Bowl game. They should have a 3rd place game, with the losers of the Conference Championship games facing off in Miami. Give the money to research for brain injuries and money towards the old players who gave their lives to the game and now have nothing but pain. This year the Pro Bowl is going to be a week of skills competition. Who would watch that? A 3rd Place Game for charity the off week between the Conference Championship and the Super Bowl would get ratings and more importantly raise money for charity.
@@edwardcricchio6106 I looked up Pro Bowls between 1960-1965. They were all played in LA and attendence was about on average 55-60 thousand. Players from winning team got 1900 dollars and losers 950. So almost twice as much as the Playoff Bowl. Also, you had a lot of great players on bad teams and this was their only chance to ever be in a "spotlight" game. From 1966 to 70 it dropped. Here's what I think happened. 1960-65 was pre Super Bowl, all you got for a postseason was a single championship game. So the Pro Bowl might have been that last "football fix" people got before seasons end. But then they added the Super Bowl with the AFL. Then both leagues went to 2 rounds of playoffs to win your league and then the Super Bowl. So after 3 weeks of postseason football, climaxed by the Super Bowl, the Pro Bowl really ended up being a non event. And just as much for the Playoff Bowl. But I agree the Pro Bowl should have been nixed a LONG time ago.
@@jacktheripoff1888 It was Lombardi and the Packers who didn't help the Playoff Bowl. He had to play in it when the Packers didn't reach the NFL Championship Game and he hated it and told the press he hated it. He called it a loser's game and ripped the location of the game, too. Thanks for the research. I think all All-Star games in the major sports aren't what they used to be. Fans don't really watch them as they once did. I also know they have done away with all consolation games in most sports, except the Olympics. So they aren't going to do a 3rd place game in the NFL, even though it would be for charity.
@@edwardcricchio6106 Olympics are nothing what they used to be. The Cold War era ones were very intense. Even though the USSR and East Europe sent in full-time athletes and some of them very roided up. A lot of that (the roids) they didn't talk about at the time. The pre-"Dream Team" games meant more for the US. That's why the 1980 Hockey win over the USSR still remains the biggest single sporting event in our history. Even the NHL acknowalaged they were the best team on the planet.
Play the game. WINNER take ALl.
"The NFL had a rule about gambling, they didn't want to be connected to gambling "
Hysterical to hear that now, considering the game is now secondary to commercials, gambling and fantasy football.
Keep making more !
Amazing players brought to their best by the greatest football coach of all time.
This was brilliant. Coming from an Eagle fan.
He says " Let's get one thing straight, I'm in complete command here"
I wish Green Bay had a coach like Lombardi now
So does every other team in the NFL!
The tiebreaker playoff between the Colts and Packers in 1965 was the last such game in NFL history.
The AFL had one in 1968 between KC and OAK.
Theres a reason the Super bowl trophy is named after him. Greatest coach in any sport ever!
Bart Starr called his wife and said “ we are going to Win this Guy knows how to do it”!
I have also seen a film of Starr with the first time Lombardi addressed the team, He says " There are planes, buses and trains leaving Green Bay every day, you don't produce for me you'll be on one of them"
@@michaelleroy9281 love that hard nose old school Spirit!
Have you ever seen "The greatest story never told"? You really should, one historian to another, it's a must see. Stay strong 💪
Best understatement of all-time......when asked by a reporter after the Ice Bowl about the weather the game was played in ,Cowboy end Lance Rentzel replied," conditions were not ideal ."
RIP JIM BROWN VINCE LOMBARDI & BART STARR
Packers hiring Coach Lombardi directly lead to NFL dominance of today. There's a reason why NFL Championship Trophy is Lombardi.
Wakeup Call: "Howdy duty Packer Backer. It’s 7 o’clock in the morning and 16 below."
Don Meredith: "16 below what?"
Vince was looked upon as a square peg when he was with the giants . He went to Gifford for help. Lighten up Vince!
Lombardi was a great coach because he had great players. When they got old he left before the decline. Smart man.
He just took a 1-10-1 team to 7-5 the next year, then took the Redskins from 5-9 to 7-5-2, first winning season since 1955. Just a fortunate coach.
If the Super Bowl had been established in 1960 the Packers would have had five Super Bowl titles in the 1960s and seven overall in franchise history.
They know we got 13 championships weather they like it or not
Loved Bart Starr!
Great Video
It was a shame Paul Hornung did not play in the 1st Super Bowl . Lambardi asked him if he wanted to go in and he declined . Jim Grabowski and Anderson were brought in for the future , I believe Paul was feeling the effects of bring replaced. Everyone on the Packers got on the field that day except Paul . It was a sad way to end his Packer career .
I am picturing how Lombardi would react to Jerry Jones or Dan Snyder interfering with how he ran the team.
Packers need a coach like this today. The amount of penalties in their games is ridiculous. They need more discipline.
I miss Lombardi, Halas, and Ditka in coaching.
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Mr. Lombardi is the 🐐
A time when they played for the love of the game, and not paychecks amounting to millions.
There was someone else that had that winning mentality, His name, AL Davis of the Oakland Raiders!!!!.
Yeah, but Al blew his chance to get his own trophy by not getting cancer, despite his best efforts.
Check that, he did have skin cancer. Pretty obvious now that I think about it.
Side note Lombardi and JFK were friends.
Side side note, had he not been a democrat Nixon would have liked him to be a running mate.
Are there more videos on the page like this? If so how do I find them, there are soooooo many videos posted daily, just happened to stumble upon this one
The Chiefs were owned by Lamar Hunt, the son of Billionaire Texas oilman HL Hunt. HL was asked by a reporter, “Lamar is losing $1 million a year on the Chiefs; how long can he keep it up”? HL replied, “Well, at current oil prices, about 285 years”.
(25:11ff.) "Fuzzy Thurston at left guard. He wasn't a Hall of Famer but he did a heck of a job."
...Actually in that first Championship year under Lombardi, 1961, Thurston was voted first team All Pro, along with Ringo, Hornung, Forrester, Whittenton, and Jordan. Of the six Packer All Pros that year, three eventually made it into the Hall of Fame: Jordan, Ringo, and Hornung.
Missed field goal...Lombardi was a coach people poured their hearts into
He was coach from 1959-67
One big mistake Dallas made on that final Green Bay drive of the Ice Bowl was staying in their man-to-man defense. Their linebackers were slipping all over the place trying to cover the backs coming out of the Green Bay backfield.
It's always interesting to play what if with the great ones, such as the Yankees great relief pitcher Mariano Rivera and say what if he struck out Sandy Alomar in 1997? What if he struck out Tony Womack in 2001? What if he got the Red Sox 1,2,3 in 2004?
The same thing could be said about Paul Hornung. What if he was not knocked out of the 1960 Championship game by Bednarik? What if he didn't gamble and miss the 1963 season? What if he didn't miss all those field goals/kicks vs the Colts in those 2 games in 1964? A case could be made in that what if scenario for Vince winning 8 consecutive championships from 1960 thru 1967 if Paul had done a few things differently. Just saying!
Those Yankees won 4 out of 5 World Series from 1996-2000 what Rivera did or didn't do in 2001 doesn't ruin the legacy
The Best
How would Lombardi have handled a player like Aaron Rodgers back in the day?or Brett Favre?
Rodgers would of had to check his ego at the door or he wouldn't be playing. Favre would of fit in
You'd never hear the great Pittsburgh Steelers say things like this about Head coach Chuck Noll...
Lombardi only lost 1 championship & that was to the Philadelphia Eagles in 1960, last championship the birds won till the 2017 Superbowl.
Go birds
Tommy McDonald Steve van buren chuck bednarik the greats from that era
So Packer fans,did I get this right?
60 lose to Philly.
61 beat Giants.
62 beat Philly and get revenge
63 no championship
64 no championship
65 beat Cleveland
66 beat Chiefs in Super Bowl 1(beat Dallas on Mederith pick in endzone in NFC Championship).
67 beat Raiders in SB 2(beat Dallas in icebowl in NFC Championship).
1962 beat Giants again
You got it right except beating the Giants again in 1962
@@eli10az That game in Philly they won 49-0 first meeting since 1960 NFL championship ( in 1962)
63 no championship because Paul Hornung was suspended that year
All winning seasons
A short Italian guy was feared by no less than Ray Nitschke. Says something, no ?
Lombardi intimidated the refs,that kick by chandler to tie the Colt 65 playoff game was not even close it was wide right.
Is it really true that the Green Bay Packers are undeniably the most successful franchise of all time?
Lombardi demanded loyalty from players. Which is ridiculous. After all, he was quick enough to get rid of a player if he found a better replacement. And rightfully so. Pro sports is a brutal business.
Wellington Mara was planning to let Jim Lee Howell in a year or two and replace him with Lombardi.. He kept it a secret and Lombardi went to the packers who did not have a human owner with an ego but were owned by a group of investors who lived in Green Bay. Lombardi was made HC and GM of the Packers. He had total and absolute control. So when the Giants called him in 1961 to offer him the HC job in NY he said no. Lombardi realized he would never be happy working for a meddling owner, and that he would not achieve success with someone looking over his shoulder.
Is this sports announcer Kevin Harlan doing the narration?
Yes
They need to return football to 1969 specs. Only dirt in the open air..snow rain mud dirt
In the Army a Sergeant has already done what he orders soldiers to do this guy never did none of what he
ordered his men to do he just barked out orders using some manual/playbook as his guideline.
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This guy would be great friends with Red Auerbach.
GPG
Why does a guy from Brooklyn, who won titles in Wisconsin, have a service area named for him in Englewood,NJ, while an Englewood guy won 2 Super Bowls for the LOCAL team?
I've stopped there!
He WAS THE 👨 🧍♀️ 👩🦱 👨👦
Saint Lombardi, what a Catholic.
I read that when the Ice Bowl ended, Lombardi soiled his pants.
That's right, and I heard that if Jerry Kramer didn't make that block, Lombardi was gonna make him remove said pants with his teeth. But Jerry gladly did it anyway....just out of respect.
If Dallas had won those 2 championship games the trophy would be the Landry Trophy
But they lost.....
Should have played harder
But they didn't win.
The trophy is a memorial to his coaching legacy and tragic death, not a reward for winning a game. We generally don't memorialize the living.