Talk:Vince Lombardi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Green Bay Packers (Rated B-Class) American football Portal This article is part of WikiProject Green Bay Packers, a WikiProject dedicated to expanding the coverage of the Green Bay Packers on Wikipedia. For more information, visit the Project page. B This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale. Top This article is on a subject of Top-importance within Green Bay Packers articles. WikiProject District of Columbia      (Rated B-Class) This article is supported by the District of Columbia WikiProject. This project provides a central approach to District of Columbia-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details. B This article has been rated as B-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) WikiProject Biography     (Rated B-Class) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. Biography Portal B This article has been rated as B-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] This article is supported by the Sports and games work group. It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality. College football WikiProject      (Rated B-Class) College football Portal Vince Lombardi is part of WikiProject College football, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to college football on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. B This article has been rated as B-Class on the quality scale. Assessment Comments This article has been rated for quality but has no comments yet. If appropriate, please review the article and then leave comments here to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article and what work it will need.

• Questionable assertion, The assertation that it is questionable whether Lombardi actually ever said, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing" is spurious. We know that Lombardi said it. His use of these exact words are recorded for history by several contemporaneous sources including first-hand accounts by his players, by journalists - and by Lombardi himself in a 1968 motivational film, "Second Effort," produced for the business community and featuring Lombardi. The film includes a scene in a stadium press box with actor Ron Masak playing a bumbling salesman and feeding Lombardi the line, "But winning isn't everything." Lombardi responds, "You're absolutely right. Winning isn't everything, I'ts the only thing. Late in his career, Lombardi became somewhat embarrassed by the implications of the quote, and thus began a campaign of revisionism by his admirers and by Lombardi himself. This is where the revised versions of the quote originated.

• Questionable assertion, Is there any support for the assertion that "The rebuilt Lambeau Field no longer faces the Lombardi Avenue side, but still uses the address as it's more financially beneficial to their bottom line."?

[edit] "Winningest Coach" in Post Season

A citation is needed for this, if it is going to be presented as a fact. To whomever keeps removing the CN: Please Stop. -JakeApple 22:28, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Since we can't agree, I removed the "fact" until someone can repost it with a source.

[edit] Huuh?

"Vincent Lombardi was born on June 11, 1913 in Brooklyn to Neapolitan-born father Enrico "Harry" Lombardi (age two)..." Enrico was two when Vince was born?! Clarityfiend 20:36, 5 November 2006 (UTC)