AS SEEN ON TV: VINCE LOMBARDI

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VINCE LOMBARDI

AS SEEN IN:
"Code Breakers"

AS PLAYED BY:
Richard Zeppieri

From Wikipedia:
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach.

Lombardi played football at St. Francis Preparatory School, and later Fordham University. He began his coaching career as an assistant coach at St. Cecilia, a Catholic high school in Englewood, New Jersey. In 1942, he became the head coach at St. Cecilia. He left for Fordham in 1947 to coach freshman football and freshman basketball, and later became an assistant coach for the varsity football team. Lombardi went on to become an offensive line coach at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for five years under Colonel Red Blaik.

He became the offensive coordinator for the New York Giants in 1954 under Jim Lee Howell. Lombardi, along with defensive coordinator Tom Landry, helped coach the Giants to a league championship in 1956. Lombardi was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his nine years. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season.

Lombardi's record in the post-season was 9–1, the loss coming in the first of those games, the 1960 NFL Championship Game.

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