That first season : how Vince Lombardi took the worst team in the NFL and set it on the path to glory

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 Lombardithe grizzled coach who took no bulltransformed a team of underachievers into winners and resurrected a city known for its passion for sport. Chronicles Vince Lombardi's remarkable first year as head coach with the franchise he would reinvent and etch forever in football history. Based on exhaustive new research and interviews, details how in a single year, the grizzled coach would transform a team of underachievers into winners and reignite a city known for its passion for its sport. John Eisenberg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.