Highlights:
- Coach and General Manager (1959-67). General Manager only in 1968.
- Assistant coach for New York Giants (1954-58) and head coach of Washington Redskins (1969).
- Directed the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championships in seven years (1961-62 and 1965-66-67), a feat without precedent or parallel in pro football history.
- 1966 and 1967 teams made history by winning the first two NFL Super Bowls.
- The Packers won nine of 10 playoff games under his leadership and overall, compiled a 98-30-4 record, a glittering .758 winning percentage, and never had a losing season.
- Lombardi, a guard, played college football at Fordham, where he was one of the legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite."
- Born June 11, 1913, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Died September 3, 1970, at age of 57.
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