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The_Bad_Guy
But, imo ... Lombardi remains *the* measuring stick in terms of pro coaches.
He spent ten years as an NFL head coach ... and won five championships.
Also ... Lombardi was 9-1 in the playoffs. His only loss was his first ... the 1960 NFL championship game against the Eagles.
But there's so much more to what he accomplished in that time than can be revealed in mere statistics.
I think it was Willie Wood who was talking about the impact Lombardi had on his life. This is years and years and years later, after Lombardi died. Wood, and I paraphrase, said that he thought about his father, who'd passed away, a lot. But he thought about Lombardi every day of his life.
Read When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss.
It is a brilliantly-written book that provides an amazing perspective on the guy - as a coach and person.
Staying so good for so long in this era is simply amazing. Not knocking the legends but they built teams and kept them, they didn't build a new team every year.
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
- Oscar Wilde
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
- Fridtjof Nansen