Vince will always be the greatest coach to ever lead a team in the NFL. I wish I was old enough to have watched the Packer games in the 1960s. I was born in 1963 so I was very young when these events happened…Long live the coach in our hearts. BTW, I am a Cowboys fan who respects the coach…
Fantastic Eulogy by the unforgettable Paul Harvey. In dedication to the greatest Football Coach the world will ever know. Saying that Vince Lombardi was no "Gentle Giant" is an understatement for the ages. A GIANT he was nonetheless. By teaching and motivating men to such a degree that they produced the finest standard of excellence in the history of the game. A Coach, a man and a team like no other.
There's a story in the book by Dave Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered, about a paperboy going to the Lombardi home to collect. The paperboy was so intimidated that he could hardly speak to Mr. Lombardi. Was that you?
No that was not me I delivered the morning Milwaukee Journal to his house and never got to meet him his wife always paid me it could have been the Green Bay Press Gazette delivery boy or one of the other delivery boys that delivered to his first house when he lived on E Mission St,both houses were in the town of Allouez which is just south of Green Bay
Vince Lombardi was before my time, but I can truly say that this man is still very much alive in the hearts of Wisconsinites and Packer fans everywhere. My parents still talk about him and how he ruled with an iron fist and a heart bigger than Wisconsin itself. If you've ever stepped into Lambeau you can still feel his presence on the field.
If you are a fan of football , although the Lombardi era might be before your time. Maybe you aren't a Packers fan .Still , you must go to Lambeau to a game Even if you don't see a game . Visit the grounds , stadium , GB HoF . It is self explanatory . Where pride still mattered on the field , not some Hollywood esq scenario with players celebrating every tackle ,first down , etc .Things a player gets paid handsomely for and it's part of their job .Like dancing to every fax that's sent to your office !! The experience represents what made the NFL what it is today . Those hard hitting players where playing was a " part time " job As they returned to their " real jobs" as soon as the season was over .OR they had Military Duty that required them to miss seasons !! In the NFL to serve their country Perhaps then , one may realize the evolution of the game ..
Hi, JSKI. Still a Packers fan and have been to Lambeau on many an occasion. Sconnie girl through and through! And I agree with you - there is a massive sense of history there. I - and this is my own opinion - feel the game has strayed from its roots. It IS a Hollywood show. I frankly don’t care who is dating which actress and I care even less who spends four days sitting in the dark. The media surely doesn’t help matters, but I do long for the days of purity in sports. That being said, I’ll continue to cheer for the Pack, the Brewers, (not a basketball fan), and by golly, I wish we had a NHL team - it feels weird to cheer for the Blackhawks or the Wild. Regardless, your thoughts represent my household as well. Cheers to you.
@@leslieu9092 Hey there , Old School ,smash mouth football .Played the game Have the missing teeth to go with it !! ! I guess I am to old fashioned .I do have a family tie to those great 60s teams under Lombardi .But , I must say my passions as a player and the route to excellence on the field is not really an issue in today's game .. The game itself is almost secondary .Seems no one wants to be a " team " player .Honestly, if I was good enough to play in the NFL I probably would do the same , getting paid the maximum at my position TE . Careers are short and there is always an up and coming younger player .Cant figure out why ARod was so pissed at the FO for drafting a QB .It happens to any player in whatever position they play .Its necessary to keep a competitive team ,via draft etc .ITs not an attack on the players performance Its. Just reality in today's " business first " game Trying to get good talent on a rookie contract . in my day it was if you said a name ,the team will be right there Now it's just where they are paying me the most . Football is a very unforgiving sport .Lose once and you are out .Its tough to see a player that has been valuable to whatever team Then they are suddenly gone .Whether it be a younger player , FA Acquisition, etc . Its sad to see that player leave your favorite team .As said ,Its more a business now , and a long time fan favorite is off to another team .Sad but it's reality .
I remember the day he was announced as the Redskins' head coach in 1969. In his only year in DC, he turned a moribund no-talent team around and won seven-games, going 7-5-2. Then came the announcement of colon cancer and a Bill Austin took over for a year before Lombardi died. George Allen finished what Lombardi started, getting the Redskins to the Super Bowl in '72.
Hear, hear ... I became a Packer fan when I was 7 yrs old. That was 1959. I would run home from church service to catch the start of the Sunday game. Still a diehard Packer fan now, Mr. Lombardi was larger than life to me. Love this video.
Not all. I know many ,many people who get to work early and leave late. AND many of them aren't even citizens , but hope to be. They not lazy . Or thieves in that they take advantage by giving a half days work . No . They're better at their job
I disagree. Vince Lombardi inherited 8 of his 9 hall of fame players that won him championships....Chuck Noll on the other hand- started with ZERO! NADA! The worst franchise in NFL football for 40 years. He was 1 and 13 in his first season and built from scratch the greatest football team in the history of organized football - the 1970's Pittsburgh Steelers - 24 Steelers won 4 SB's in 6 years and 8 of them are in the HOF (LC Greenwood will make it too one day) - try and find any other team in the history of the NFL to equal that stat - you will not (5 49ers won 4 in 8 years - thats the closest). Chuck Noll doesnt get anywhere near the credit he deserves because the media has put Lombardi on a pedastal. RIP Chuck Noll - the emperor of coaches.
Agreed. Shula going to Miami in 1970 inherited a similar team. Some good core players, and took them to an undefeated title and back to back Championships a couple years later. Similar to the early 60's Pack. Defense, ground game, sparse but solid passing attack.
+TommyC503 Don't make me laugh! By making a ridiculous statement like that, you are showing your feeble knowledge of football. Chuck Noll was a great football coach, no doubt about it, but he does not compare to Vince Lombardi. No one does.
The greatest coach eulogized by the greatest commentator of all time! They are sorely missed by the generation in which they lived. We will not see the likes of them again. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for everything you do!
I'm in my 50th year now and an old man by most of the measures of the young. I remember this America, but it fades a bit more in my mind every day. When I look around at the world sometimes it seems an alien place and I am a stranger in this place.Most of the people who loved me best are gone.Im not bitter,such is the way of things.I come to this small technological sanctuary though and for a moment all the friendly ghosts of long ago are with me and I remember this America and for a few minutes I'm home.
Mike Mike I'll be 70 later this year, and I can relate to feeling like a stranger in our society at times. But you are still a relatively young man. Take heart friend. Enjoy the memories...and let's make new ones as we cheer on The Pack again. Pulling for another Super Bowl championship in a few weeks.
Maybe if we try to live our lives with his ideals, with the constant effort and striving for perfection he taught us, then maybe some younger folks will notice something different about us, something strong, effective, and joyous about us that they may want to have, too, and maybe they will ask us what is our secret?
Paul Harvey was a staple growing up in my house. Each morning before the bus got to the house we would be eating breakfast when his segment came on, and each day was another wonderful little nugget of information from Paul. His style, his delivery, it was unmatched and what a great radio personality he was. Never knew he did a Lombardi bit but its fitting that two large icons of the 60s are memorialized here.
My favorite coach of all time, I remember this team so well, the players and the Era will be with me for the rest of my life, semper fi first battalion first marines, south Vietnam I Corp.
My Dads childhood friend in Union, NJ (his friend was his Confirmation Sponsor) and he went to West Point and was coached by Vince Lombardi and was drafted by the NY Giants in the 1950s.
There is a clock overlooking Lombardi Avenue outside Lambeau Field that is always set 15 minutes fast because of Lombardis view on always being on time
Crybabies yes. Overpaid? Not by a long shot. Football players put they're health on the line every time they step on the field. Thousands of players will have long term effects of CTE, surgeries, muscle damage. What kind of price can anyone put on one's health after football?
Thanks for posting this as any vintage material of Paul Harvey is a treasure and this subject is worth hearing his thoughts on. If you have more of this broadcast I would love to hear it.
Not saying Chuck Noll wasn't a great coach, because he was, but consider everything Lombardi had to go through in order to get the position in Green Bay; years of having to prove himself, battling racism and critics. He was 41 when he was hired as coach of the Packers and within a year they had a winning record. Consider this, as well, look whose name is on those six trophies you have and any other team that has won them, and the legacy that it reflects.
Exactly the piont. Most people don't realize the discrimination against italians that happened in the usa. They where not chosen for jobs because there last name ended in a vowl.
It's not only that. Those were different times. The team would show up in another city to play, and alot of hotels wouldn't let the whole team stay. Due to the blacks on the team. Lombardi would tell them, if the whole team can't stay then we all leave! That's the great msn that he was! God love him!
When it came to Pro Football,Vince Lombardi was Knute Rockne, Eddie Robinson,Bear Bryant,Joe Paterno,Bo Schembeckler,and Darrell Royal all rolled into one
As a life long Bears fan and watching that guy across the field never being able to read his thoughts two words always screamed through my head "Man" and "Dad" for he was a huge man and only one man was his equal and that guy was my dad. I am blessed.
I thought Green Bay won 1 game in 1958, not 1959. If I'm not mistaken, 1959 was the first year Lombardi coached the Packers, and the next year, 1960, they were already playing for the NFL Championship. Then they won in all in 1961, and never lost another championship game the rest of Lombarit's tenure.
Why isn't the rest stop on the NJ Turnpike at Englewood named for an Englewood native son,Bill Parcells,who won 2 Super Bowls for the local team?Let Wisconsin honor Lombardi.
Where are you from? Are you a Wisconsinite fan or a fan from the further reaches of the world? I don't want to sound like a fool, but I am a Wisconsinite and a lifetime Packer fan. This is a fantastic video, and I thank you for it.
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If your 10 minutes early, you're on time. If you're on time.....you're late. If you're ten minutes late, don't bother coming in. - Lombardi
15 minutes, not 10
Two legends. Vince Lombardi and Paul Harvey. Good Day.
Used to listen to his lunchtime broadcasts years ago. Always inspiring.
Vince will always be the greatest coach to ever lead a team in the NFL. I wish I was old enough to have watched the Packer games in the 1960s. I was born in 1963 so I was very young when these events happened…Long live the coach in our hearts. BTW, I am a Cowboys fan who respects the coach…
Fantastic Eulogy by the unforgettable Paul Harvey. In dedication to the greatest Football Coach the world will ever know. Saying that Vince Lombardi was no "Gentle Giant" is an understatement for the ages. A GIANT he was nonetheless. By teaching and motivating men to such a degree that they produced the finest standard of excellence in the history of the game. A Coach, a man and a team like no other.
When I was a kid I delivered the news paper to Vince Lombardi,he lived one street over on Sunset Circle
There's a story in the book by Dave Maraniss, When Pride Still Mattered, about a paperboy going to the Lombardi home to collect. The paperboy was so intimidated that he could hardly speak to Mr. Lombardi. Was that you?
No that was not me I delivered the morning Milwaukee Journal to his house and never got to meet him his wife always paid me it could have been the Green Bay Press Gazette delivery boy or one of the other delivery boys that delivered to his first house when he lived on E Mission St,both houses were in the town of Allouez which is just south of Green Bay
@@mattharper588 If you haven't read that book, it's fantastic. I highly recommend it.
Lombardi and Harvey, they were the greatest in their professions. Thanks for posting this.
They should play this at Lambou opening day every year.
Lombardi did so much in so little time and a Super Bowl Trophy bears his name. Amazing!
The Ice Bowl defined Vince Lombardi, that was the Greatest game EVER!
Vince Lombardi was before my time, but I can truly say that this man is still very much alive in the hearts of Wisconsinites and Packer fans everywhere. My parents still talk about him and how he ruled with an iron fist and a heart bigger than Wisconsin itself. If you've ever stepped into Lambeau you can still feel his presence on the field.
If you are a fan of football , although the Lombardi era might be before your time. Maybe you aren't a Packers fan .Still , you must go to Lambeau to a game Even if you don't see a game . Visit the grounds , stadium , GB HoF . It is self explanatory . Where pride still mattered on the field , not some Hollywood esq scenario with players celebrating every tackle ,first down , etc .Things a player gets paid handsomely for and it's part of their job .Like dancing to every fax that's sent to your office !!
The experience represents what made the NFL what it is today . Those hard hitting players where playing was a " part time " job As they returned to their " real jobs" as soon as the season was over .OR they had Military Duty that required them to miss seasons !! In the NFL to serve their country
Perhaps then , one may realize the evolution of the game ..
Hi, JSKI. Still a Packers fan and have been to Lambeau on many an occasion. Sconnie girl through and through! And I agree with you - there is a massive sense of history there. I - and this is my own opinion - feel the game has strayed from its roots. It IS a Hollywood show. I frankly don’t care who is dating which actress and I care even less who spends four days sitting in the dark. The media surely doesn’t help matters, but I do long for the days of purity in sports. That being said, I’ll continue to cheer for the Pack, the Brewers, (not a basketball fan), and by golly, I wish we had a NHL team - it feels weird to cheer for the Blackhawks or the Wild. Regardless, your thoughts represent my household as well. Cheers to you.
@@leslieu9092 Hey there , Old School ,smash mouth football .Played the game Have the missing teeth to go with it !! ! I guess I am to old fashioned .I do have a family tie to those great 60s teams under Lombardi .But , I must say my passions as a player and the route to excellence on the field is not really an issue in today's game .. The game itself is almost secondary .Seems no one wants to be a " team " player .Honestly, if I was good enough to play in the NFL I probably would do the same , getting paid the maximum at my position TE . Careers are short and there is always an up and coming younger player .Cant figure out why ARod was so pissed at the FO for drafting a QB .It happens to any player in whatever position they play .Its necessary to keep a competitive team ,via draft etc .ITs not an attack on the players performance Its. Just reality in today's " business first " game Trying to get good talent on a rookie contract . in my day it was if you said a name ,the team will be right there Now it's just where they are paying me the most . Football is a very unforgiving sport .Lose once and you are out .Its tough to see a player that has been valuable to whatever team Then they are suddenly gone .Whether it be a younger player , FA Acquisition, etc . Its sad to see that player leave your favorite team .As said ,Its more a business now , and a long time fan favorite is off to another team .Sad but it's reality .
There is a clock at Lambeau that is running 15 minutes ahead of all the rest. Nice subtle tribute
Bless You Vince & Paul!
I remember the day he was announced as the Redskins' head coach in 1969. In his only year in DC, he turned a moribund no-talent team around and won seven-games, going 7-5-2. Then came the announcement of colon cancer and a Bill Austin took over for a year before Lombardi died.
George Allen finished what Lombardi started, getting the Redskins to the Super Bowl in '72.
Paul Harvey. Good Day! 😎😎😎😎😎
THANKS for posting this. I remember Paul Harvey. I grew up in Wisconsin during Lombardi's time there. It was pretty special.
the greatest coach ; beautiful tribute
Semper fi I was almost 9 when he died. I remember watching the Ice Bowl with my dad. EPIC!
I remember that day .I was painting my folks home in St. Cloud, MN, ready to start my sophomore year in college. A very long time ago.
Thank you for posting this, from a lifelong Packer fan and season ticket holder.
Thank you for posting this. I am also a life long Packer fan in New Jersey. What a great man .
He taught my mother in high school in New Jersey
Hear, hear ... I became a Packer fan when I was 7 yrs old. That was 1959. I would run home from church service to catch the start of the Sunday game. Still a diehard Packer fan now, Mr. Lombardi was larger than life to me. Love this video.
50 years later, and we are still in an era of "something for nothing, prop up the underdog, pulled punches, and wars for indefinite objectives".
Not all. I know many ,many people who get to work early and leave late. AND many of them aren't even citizens , but hope to be. They not lazy . Or thieves in that they take advantage by giving a half days work . No . They're better at their job
Vince Lombardi was the greatest head coach of all time and im saying this as a Chiefs fan. He revolutionized the game for the better
I disagree. Vince Lombardi inherited 8 of his 9 hall of fame players that won him championships....Chuck Noll on the other hand- started with ZERO! NADA! The worst franchise in NFL football for 40 years. He was 1 and 13 in his first season and built from scratch the greatest football team in the history of organized football - the 1970's Pittsburgh Steelers - 24 Steelers won 4 SB's in 6 years and 8 of them are in the HOF (LC Greenwood will make it too one day) - try and find any other team in the history of the NFL to equal that stat - you will not (5 49ers won 4 in 8 years - thats the closest). Chuck Noll doesnt get anywhere near the credit he deserves because the media has put Lombardi on a pedastal. RIP Chuck Noll - the emperor of coaches.
Agreed. Shula going to Miami in 1970 inherited a similar team. Some good core players, and took them to an undefeated title and back to back Championships a couple years later.
Similar to the early 60's Pack. Defense, ground game, sparse but solid passing attack.
TommyC503 How did those talented players get into the HOF? Lombardi.
Frank Romano Not saying he wasn't a great coach - Noll was better.
+TommyC503 Don't make me laugh! By making a ridiculous statement like that, you are showing your feeble knowledge of football. Chuck Noll was a great football coach, no doubt about it, but he does not compare to Vince Lombardi. No one does.
The greatest coach eulogized by the greatest commentator of all time! They are sorely missed by the generation in which they lived. We will not see the likes of them again. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for everything you do!
Happy 100th, Coach Lombardi
I'm in my 50th year now and an old man by most of the measures of the young. I remember this America, but it fades a bit more in my mind every day. When I look around at the world sometimes it seems an alien place and I am a stranger in this place.Most of the people who loved me best are gone.Im not bitter,such is the way of things.I come to this small technological sanctuary though and for a moment all the friendly ghosts of long ago are with me and I remember this America and for a few minutes I'm home.
Mike Mike If you keep calling yourself "old," you'll be old. 😠
God bless. I’m 60 and feel exactly the same way. Well said
As l, Too...Couldn't Have Said lt Better! Happy 4th!
Mike Mike I'll be 70 later this year, and I can relate to feeling like a stranger in our society at times. But you are still a relatively young man. Take heart friend. Enjoy the memories...and let's make new ones as we cheer on The Pack again. Pulling for another Super Bowl championship in a few weeks.
Maybe if we try to live our lives with his ideals, with the constant effort and striving for perfection he taught us, then maybe some younger folks will notice something different about us, something strong, effective, and joyous about us that they may want to have, too, and maybe they will ask us what is our secret?
Thanks for posting this. Lombardi would have given Paul Harvey a good handshake for what he said about him. Go Pack:)
Great!!!
thanks for sharing
Paul Harvey was a staple growing up in my house. Each morning before the bus got to the house we would be eating breakfast when his segment came on, and each day was another wonderful little nugget of information from Paul. His style, his delivery, it was unmatched and what a great radio personality he was. Never knew he did a Lombardi bit but its fitting that two large icons of the 60s are memorialized here.
My favorite coach of all time, I remember this team so well, the players and the Era will be with me for the rest of my life, semper fi first battalion first marines, south Vietnam I Corp.
Dr.Walter's from Jacksonville state University had an amazing wake.His was a testimony on a life that was based on love loyalty honor and music.
Thank you for taking the time to post this!
I have two words........ THANK-YOU!!
My Dads childhood friend in Union, NJ (his friend was his Confirmation Sponsor) and he went to West Point and was coached by Vince Lombardi and was drafted by the NY Giants in the 1950s.
one legend on another.
Amazing clip, thanks for posting! Love that old-time radio writing
Vince Lombardi ROCKS!!
Go Packers!
Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers are what set the popularity of The NFL in motion. Before the Packers dynasty it was BASEBALL.
BEST EVER. BY FAR.
Paul Harvey good day! Great man.
God bless you for finding and posting this.
There is a clock overlooking Lombardi Avenue outside Lambeau Field that is always set 15 minutes fast because of Lombardis view on always being on time
"And now you know, the rest of the story....."
The MAN....Good Day!!!
“A civilian George Patton….”….wow…two of the greatest leaders of men ever, IMHO.
Paul Harvey said it quaintly and beautifully:. Vince Lombardi was a civilian George Patton. And why is Lambeau Field not named Lombardi Stadium?
Excellent!
The league as we know it now would have no place for him. Overpaid crybabies.
Crybabies yes.
Overpaid? Not by a long shot.
Football players put they're health on the line every time they step on the field. Thousands of players will have long term effects of CTE, surgeries, muscle damage. What kind of price can anyone put on one's health after football?
@@MisfitsFiendClub138 you have never worked in manufacturing have you?
They should have let Paul Harvey,use this as Vince Lombardi's eulogy,It says it all
NFL Rest In Peace
Perhaps Vince's quieter legacy is to not ignore any ongoing health issues, making his passing that much more regrettable.
A true leader
Hey great !! Thanks for the post!!!
Thanks for posting this as any vintage material of Paul Harvey is a treasure and this subject is worth hearing his thoughts on. If you have more of this broadcast I would love to hear it.
There is not, this was it on that tape!
Legend
Excellent.
Not saying Chuck Noll wasn't a great coach, because he was, but consider everything Lombardi had to go through in order to get the position in Green Bay; years of having to prove himself, battling racism and critics. He was 41 when he was hired as coach of the Packers and within a year they had a winning record. Consider this, as well, look whose name is on those six trophies you have and any other team that has won them, and the legacy that it reflects.
What racism did Lombardi have to battle? Lombardi was of Italian heritage.
inbredagogo
inbredagogo He got based over for head coach positions because they thought an Italian-American couldn't cut it. Well......
Exactly the piont. Most people don't realize the discrimination against italians that happened in the usa. They where not chosen for jobs because there last name ended in a vowl.
It's not only that. Those were different times. The team would show up in another city to play, and alot of hotels wouldn't let the whole team stay. Due to the blacks on the team. Lombardi would tell them, if the whole team can't stay then we all leave! That's the great msn that he was! God love him!
thank you
Lombardi one of a kind.
Perfect.
50 years ago today.
When it came to Pro Football,Vince Lombardi was Knute Rockne, Eddie Robinson,Bear Bryant,Joe Paterno,Bo Schembeckler,and Darrell Royal all rolled into one
Greatest video ever
As a life long Bears fan and watching that guy across the field never being able to read his thoughts two words always screamed through my head "Man" and "Dad" for he was a huge man and only one man was his equal and that guy was my dad. I am blessed.
And now you know. The rest of the story! 😉😉😉😉😉
I thought Green Bay won 1 game in 1958, not 1959. If I'm not mistaken, 1959 was the first year Lombardi coached the Packers, and the next year, 1960, they were already playing for the NFL Championship. Then they won in all in 1961, and never lost another championship game the rest of Lombarit's tenure.
Don't let facts get in the way of telling a good story, which Paul Harvey could.
you are exactly right
Why isn't the rest stop on the NJ Turnpike at Englewood named for an Englewood native son,Bill Parcells,who won 2 Super Bowls for the local team?Let Wisconsin honor Lombardi.
Where are you from? Are you a Wisconsinite fan or a fan from the further reaches of the world?
I don't want to sound like a fool, but I am a Wisconsinite and a lifetime Packer fan. This is a fantastic video, and I thank you for it.
I dont know who Vince Lombardi is I assume baseball(?) but this was a great video, thank you.
check out the Vince Lombardi trophy
St Vincent Lombardi.
He was thinking of being a priest ,but said he loved football, an girls
Halas, Landry, Shula, Stram, all legends. But none top Lombardi.
If Lombardi hadn't got sick the Redskins woukd have been the team of the 70s not the Steelers
Now Packer fans sell their tickets trying to make a quick buck nowadays
@Weapondrift mega facepalm
"And now you know, the rest of the story....."