When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47387 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi Author: David Maraniss Narrator: David Maraniss Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 1, 1999 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 16 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 7 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning.