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

  

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  Short Description for That First SeasonChronicling Vince Lombardi's remarkable first year as head coach with the Green Bay Packers, Eisenberg pushes away the mist that surrounds the Lombardi legend to bring readers the real story of how the seeds of a football dynasty were sown.
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  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • Published: 01 October 2009
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Social & Cultural History | Sport | American Football
  • ISBN 13: 9780618904990 ISBN 10: 0618904999
  • Sales rank: 415,278

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• 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 laughing stock 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.