There will never be another Vincent Lombardi ever again.He was a beautiful loving compassionate man who made winners out of all his players by being a very demanding tough coach and that's love.
I grew up with Jerry Kramer in Sandpoint, Idaho. He was one year behind me in school. He told me one time, "I feel good when I can make someone hurt". This attitude is what it takes to make a great football player and he was great.
A lot of the players were like that back in the day. Mike Curtis, a linebacker who played for the old Baltimore Colts and later on the Seattle Seahawks initial expansion team in 1976, once said that he liked playing football because it allowed him to hit people and get away with it.
I played offensive guard way back in the day. Jerry Kramer was THE guy to watch. He had just amazing agility, speed, balance, and leverage. He was blocking perfection. I think that Coach Lombardi had a lot to do with that. Even today, I see highlights of the Packers of that era, and my eyes are always glued to Jerry Kramer. Just an amazing blocker. He should be in the Smithsonian as well as the Hall of Fame.
@@geraldgiannotti8364 - I'll bet that Lombardi the player was a nightmare to play against. I can imagine it, though. My high school football team had an offensive line that averaged 220 pounds in 1976. That was huge for that time. We thought highly of ourselves. We went on a road trip to play a small rural high school about six hours drive. When we got to their school in the late afternoon we were greeted by the opposing Varsity team. They were so small that we thought they were the Freshman team! Obviously we talked among ourselves that we would show them mercy after we had run up the score a bit. We were smug and arrogant. Lordy! I had never seen anything so fast as I saw with that team of theirs! They were a blur. My regular job as an offensive guard against a 3/4 defense on an off side play off tackle or around end was to hit the linebacker on his play side, give him a sharp bump, make him go around me on the far side of the ball, and then continue down the field to pick off a defensive back closest to the ball carrier who was supposed to be hitting the open field about the same time I arrived. Welp...... These guys were so quick that I would literally knock my man to the ground, then hear the whistle blowing from behind as my man made the tackle by getting off the ground and making it across the line of scrimmage by the time our back hit the hole. Here I was getting ready to hit the strong safety, while my main man was making the tackle at the L.O.S! I quickly found out that the only way I could keep my linebacker from making the play was to run him over and then lay on him. This, of course, prohibited any sort of downfield blocking or any sophisticated blocking of any kind. They forced us completely out of our offense because of their quickness, speed, and tenacity! The defensive side of the ball wasn't any better for us. It was like trying to tackle a fire ant hill in a hurricane. We had no idea where the ball was. I think they beat us 36-0. I can imagine that this was how Lombardi was as a player. I can see Lombardi smiling that gap-toothed smile at me from across the line of scrimmage, and it gives me the cold sweats. He must have been a nightmare. He would have been great at anything he tried.
Such amoronic statement, I'm by no means a patriot,brady,packer,Lombardi or green bay fan, but to make a statement like that shows your ignorance of what Brady and Belicheck accomplished. Lombardi no question probably the greatest all around football coach ever, Belicheck might be the greatest winner ever.
@@johnloy9292 They were caught cheating multiple times to include Brady having to destroy his phone. What it is about people that they are so star struck that they refuse to see the truth about people is beyond me. Brady/ Belichick will never approach: Staubach/Landry Bradshaw/Noll or the GOAT Montana/Walsh. The rest of it is just NFL/ ESPN hype. Brady is not the GOAT by a LONG SHOT. Brady could not even play in the era those others did...it's laughable.
@@elliegonzales8212 Don Shula, who coached during the Lombardi era and was on the NFL competition committee during his later years, never liked Belichick.
Jerry Kramer is a Hall of Fame Leader and a Perfect Lombardi Legend!
Thomas J. Vanderloop, Author, Teacher & Packer Backer.
There will never be another Vincent Lombardi ever again.He was a beautiful loving compassionate man who made winners out of all his players by being a very demanding tough coach and that's love.
Jerry Kramer tells a beautiful story about his coach.
A Legend
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I grew up with Jerry Kramer in Sandpoint, Idaho. He was one year behind me in school. He told me one time, "I feel good when I can make someone hurt". This attitude is what it takes to make a great football player and he was great.
A lot of the players were like that back in the day. Mike Curtis, a linebacker who played for the old Baltimore Colts and later on the Seattle Seahawks initial expansion team in 1976, once said that he liked playing football because it allowed him to hit people and get away with it.
I played offensive guard way back in the day. Jerry Kramer was THE guy to watch. He had just amazing agility, speed, balance, and leverage. He was blocking perfection. I think that Coach Lombardi had a lot to do with that. Even today, I see highlights of the Packers of that era, and my eyes are always glued to Jerry Kramer. Just an amazing blocker. He should be in the Smithsonian as well as the Hall of Fame.
Thank you for sharing!
@@geraldgiannotti8364 - I'll bet that Lombardi the player was a nightmare to play against. I can imagine it, though. My high school football team had an offensive line that averaged 220 pounds in 1976. That was huge for that time. We thought highly of ourselves. We went on a road trip to play a small rural high school about six hours drive. When we got to their school in the late afternoon we were greeted by the opposing Varsity team. They were so small that we thought they were the Freshman team! Obviously we talked among ourselves that we would show them mercy after we had run up the score a bit. We were smug and arrogant. Lordy! I had never seen anything so fast as I saw with that team of theirs! They were a blur. My regular job as an offensive guard against a 3/4 defense on an off side play off tackle or around end was to hit the linebacker on his play side, give him a sharp bump, make him go around me on the far side of the ball, and then continue down the field to pick off a defensive back closest to the ball carrier who was supposed to be hitting the open field about the same time I arrived.
Welp...... These guys were so quick that I would literally knock my man to the ground, then hear the whistle blowing from behind as my man made the tackle by getting off the ground and making it across the line of scrimmage by the time our back hit the hole. Here I was getting ready to hit the strong safety, while my main man was making the tackle at the L.O.S! I quickly found out that the only way I could keep my linebacker from making the play was to run him over and then lay on him. This, of course, prohibited any sort of downfield blocking or any sophisticated blocking of any kind. They forced us completely out of our offense because of their quickness, speed, and tenacity!
The defensive side of the ball wasn't any better for us. It was like trying to tackle a fire ant hill in a hurricane. We had no idea where the ball was. I think they beat us 36-0.
I can imagine that this was how Lombardi was as a player. I can see Lombardi smiling that gap-toothed smile at me from across the line of scrimmage, and it gives me the cold sweats. He must have been a nightmare. He would have been great at anything he tried.
He’s right. Lombardi was actually shy. He made himself come forward
I need that.
beautiful
Could someone please explain to me exactly why Jerry Kramer isn't in the Hall of Fame? It's a crime...
So happy he's in now, but he should have been in long time ago.
I'm glad as well...I only wish he could have been inducted with his contemporaries.
Like Bon Bon Jovi in the R&R HOF, & Foghat Still lsn't...Why, People, WHY?
Brady & Belicheck Will NEVER Come Close to Kramer & Lombardi...
No Matter How Many "Championships" Ol "Tug & Pull" Kraft & the Patriots BUY!
Such amoronic statement, I'm by no means a patriot,brady,packer,Lombardi or green bay fan, but to make a statement like that shows your ignorance of what Brady and Belicheck accomplished. Lombardi no question probably the greatest all around football coach ever, Belicheck might be the greatest winner ever.
@@johnloy9292 They were caught cheating multiple times to include Brady having to destroy his phone. What it is about people that they are so star struck that they refuse to see the truth about people is beyond me. Brady/ Belichick will never approach: Staubach/Landry Bradshaw/Noll or the GOAT Montana/Walsh. The rest of it is just NFL/ ESPN hype. Brady is not the GOAT by a LONG SHOT. Brady could not even play in the era those others did...it's laughable.
@@elliegonzales8212 Don Shula, who coached during the Lombardi era and was on the NFL competition committee during his later years, never liked Belichick.