Official Vince Lombardi Playbook - His Classic Plays & Strategies Personal Photos & Mementos

Informationen zum Autor Phil Barber has authored or coauthored twelve books, including We Were Champions: The 49ers’ Dynasty in Their Own Words. A journalist who has covered sports, especially professional football, for twenty years, he has been a longtime regular contributor to the Sporting News, consulting with coaches and scouts to expose the chalkboard strategy underlying the sport of football. Most recently a reporter for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, he has approached the game from many angles. Barber previously spent seven years as a senior editor for NFL Publishing. After leaving that position he continued to write for NFL publications, as well as Sports Illustrated and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Santa Rosa, California. Klappentext Vince Lombardi was notorious for his inability to throw anything away. What that means to fans of one of football’s greatest figures finally comes together in The Vince Lombardi Playbook—an unprecedented collection of intimate photos; colorful reflections from players who honed their skills under Lombardi; personal mementos; and an array of his handwritten speeches, personal letters, scouting reports, and photos of players.Above all, The Vince Lombardi Playbook highlights the plays that made the Packers great: the feared power sweep, the halfback option pass, the textbook traps, the risky third-and-short passes, and many others. Featured in diagrams in Lombardi’s original hand, with accompanying terminology and notations, these archival gems form an all-access pass onto the field and into the mind of a legend. Americans yearn for a more simple era, when athletes made news for their sporting accomplishments, not their arrests or congressional testimony. Most sports fans are equally nostalgic for the on-field simplicity of those days. Paying homage to a legend, The Vince Lombardi Playbook will be treasured by fans as an irresistible piece of history. Zusammenfassung Vince Lombardi was notorious for his inability to throw anything away. This work highlights the plays that made the Packers great: the feared power sweep! the halfback option pass! the textbook traps and the risky third-and-short passes. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionWhy Vince Lombardi remains not only relevant, but revered. What he meant to the team, the region around Green Bay, the NFL and the game of football. His philosophies of life, athletics, and motivation, and his approach to the X’s and O’s of his sport.Chapter 1 – Making of a Coach: Lombardi before Green BayBorn in Brooklyn in 1913, Lombardi went on to become one of the renowned “Seven Blocks of Granite” at Fordham. He learned execution and organization from famed Army coach Red Blaik, the passing game from fellow West Point assistant Sid Gillman, the power sweep from Fordham’s Frank Leahy and Jim Crowley, and the requirements of the NFL from his five years as a New York Giants assistant.Chapter 2 – Swept Away: Lombardi’s running gameThe enduring image of Lombardi’s Packers is guards Jerry Kramer and Fuzzy Thurston leading a runner around the end, clearing out overmatched defenders on one of Green Bay’s signature sweeps. The simplicity of Lombardi’s running game was almost a return to the end runs of the old Single-Wing offense, though he added traps and weakside counters to parry the Giants’ defensive strategies.Sample play: A classic counter runChapter 3 – Short-Short-Long: Lombardi’s passing gameGreen Bay’s passing attack was generally cautious and patient. But when a defense overcommitted to stopping the run, Lombardi would let Paul Hornung throw a halfback option pass, or tell Bart Starr to throw deep on third-and-inches.Sample play: A three-receiver pattern for third-and-long situationsChapter 4 – Green monster: Lombardi’s defenseWhile Lombardi is known primarily as an offensive coach, his defense sent at least five players to the Hall of Fame – defensive end Willie Davis, defensive tackle Henry Jordan...

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• Autori: Phil Barber
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781599215365
• ISBN: 978-1-59921-536-5
• Pagine: 160
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport di palla; Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari