Magnificent Seven: The Championship Games That Built the Lombardi Dynasty

by Bud Lea, Paul Hornung (Foreword by), Bart Starr (Introduction), Vince Lombardi Jr. (Afterword)

Overview

Titletown USA is the proud moniker of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and this book examines how the Green Bay Packers, led by head coach Vince Lombardi, became the championship prototype by which other teams measured their success in the NFL's formative years. In the 1960s, Lombardi's Packers turned the smallest national market in the NFL into the home of the most successful football team in league history. The first team to win five titles in a seven-year span, the Green Bay Packers became synonymous with championships as the NFL emerged on the forefront of the national sports scene. Magnificent Seven gathers anecdotes and strategy from the squads that won the three NFL Championships in 1961, 1962, and 1965, Super Bowls I and II, as well as the NFC Championships in 1966 and 1967.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572436701
Publisher:	Triumph Books
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.12(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Bud Lea is the former Green Bay Packers beat writer for the Milwaukee Sentinel from 1954–72 before being the paper's sports editor from 1972–80 and sports columnist from 1980–95. He is the author of Heir to the Legacy. He lives in Glendale, Wisconsin. Paul Hornung is a retired Hall of Fame professional football player who played for the Green Bay Packers from 1957–66. A versatile player, he was a halfback, quarterback, and placekicker. Bart Starr is a former professional football player and coach who was the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers from 1956 to 1971, during which time he led the Packers to multiple NFL championships. Vince Lombardi Jr. is the son of legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi and the former assistant executive director of the National Football League Management Council focusing primarily as a labor negotiator.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	v
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	xi
1	The 1961 NFL Championship Game	1
2	The 1962 NFL Championship Game	28
3	The 1965 NFL Championship Game	52
4	The 1966 NFL Championship Game	78
5	1967: The First Super Bowl	104
6	The 1967 NFL Championship Game	130
7	Super Bowl II	158
	Afterword	185
	Index	187

Editorial Reviews

Lea covered the Green Bay Packers for the Milwaukee Journal from 1954 to 1972. Here he chronicles the legendary Vince Lombardi and his Packer teams during the 1961, 1962, 1965, and 1966 championships; the 1967 "Ice Bowl"; and Super Bowls I and II. Lombardi's squad set the benchmark for National Football League clubs. The coach was a no-nonsense man who expected everything from his players (as David Maraniss reveals in When Pride Still Mattered, a biography of Lombardi). His approach quickly gained the respect of the players, turning a bunch of losers into a united team that won seven "Magnificent" titles. Rounding out the text are an index, a good selection of great archival photographs, anecdotes from players, a foreword by Paul Hornung, and an introduction by Bart Starr. Vince Lombardi Jr. wrote the afterword. Recommended where demand warrants.-Larry R. Little, Penticton P.L., B.C.

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