In this groundbreaking biography David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth the man his game and his God.More than any other sports figure Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham West Point and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend a symbol to many of leadership discipline perseverance and teamwork and to others of an obsession with winning.