That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory (Unabridged) - John Eisenberg

That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory (Unabridged)

By John Eisenberg

  • Release Date: 2013-07-17
  • Genre: Sports & Outdoors
  • © 2013 Audible Studios

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Summary : That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory (Unabridged)

John Eisenberg's That First Season is the seldom-studied prequel to a phenomenal football career for Vince Lombardi and the Packers, drawing on exhaustive new research and interviews to tell an incredible ensemble tale of a team, a town, and their leader.

The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughingstock by the late 1950s. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior, and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City. In a single year, Vince Lombardi - the grizzled coach who took no bull - transformed a team of underachievers into winners and resurrected a city known for its passion for sport.
That First Season chronicles Vince Lombardi's remarkable first year as head coach with the franchise he would reinvent and etch forever in football history. In a single year, as the grizzled coach who took no bull, he would transform a team of underachievers into winners and reignite a city known for its passion for its sport.
Eisenberg pushes away the mist that surrounds the Lombardi legend to bring listeners the real story of how the seeds of a football dynasty were sown. He also brings alive an incredible ensemble tale of a team, a town, and their leader.

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