The story of a team, a town, and a leader: Vince Lombardi's first year as head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and how he turned them into a powerhouse. 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 Wisconsin city known for its passion for sport. He would lead them to championship to championship, and bring out the best in players including Bart Starr, Jim Taylor, Willie Davis, Forrest Gregg, and many more.
"A brisk, sometimes revealing look at Lombardi's early days in Green Bay and is a nice complement to the existing works on the legendary coach."
Publishers Weekly
"The exciting chronicle of Vince Lombardi's pivotal first season as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. . . . How the stout, brash Brooklyn native was able to transform a directionless assemblage of players into a gridiron behemoth is as much the subject of Eisenberg's exhaustively researched account as his thrilling description of each game. . . . A must-read for Packer and Lombardi fans, and wi
