Lombardi roars back to life with upcoming Broadway play

The 40th anniversary NFL jerseyof Vince Lombardi's death from cancer at age 57 passed quietly on Friday, but the
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Lombardi, who led the Green
NFL jerseys Bay Packers to five National Football League championships, is the focus of three major cheap nfl jerseysproductions. First up is "Lombardi," a Broadway play based on David Maraniss'nfl merchandise terrific biography: "When Pride Still Mattered."

The play, starring Dan nfl merchandiseLauria (the dad from "The Wonder Years") previews later this month and opens steelers jerseyson Oct. 21 at Circle in the Square.

An HBO Sports documentary,saints jersey also entitled "Lombardi," debuts in December, while ESPN Films is developing a film based on Lombardi's early years in Green Bay that will premiere football jerseyin January 2012. Robert DeNiro - so convincing as an athlete when he played boxer Jake LaMotta in "Raging Bull" - will star as the iron-jawed football jerseyscoach.

So why all this attention nhl jerseyon Lombardi, who coached the Packers at a time when most football fans watched games on black and white TVs?

Many NFL fans were born long after Lombardi turned the Packers into one of the NFL's flagship franchises,nhl jerseys which means there are several generations that are nhl team jerseyunaware of hockey jerseyLombardi's significant impact on football and American culture.nhl hockey jersey

"Kids know the name on thejersey devils (Super Bowl) trophy and they know that he said 'Winning isn't everything,penguins jersey it's the only thing,' but they don't know the man," blackhawks jerseysays HBO president Ross Greenburg. "It's time to fill in the blanks."

Greenburgmlb jersey also says thatmlb jerseys Lombardi has a lot to teach us in these economically depressed and politically divided times.baseball jersey

Lombardi was a man whose feet were firmly planted on both sides of the battles of the 1960s. Lombardi baseball jerseyswas a passionate champion of the civil rights movement, but he was disgusted by the violence and chaos of the times. He was a Democrat who was close to several members of the Kennedy clan, but he was also onmlb baseball jersey Richard Nixon's short list of vice presidential candidates in 1968.

"We're in desperate need of heroes and leaders, and he was a leader," Lauria says. "Our hope is that you phillies jerseywill leave the play wanting to be better at whatever endeavor you pursue in life."

Lombardi, as the Broadway cardinals jersey
show and HBO documentary will show, was hardly a perfect man. His dedication to his teams never flagged; his commitment to his wife, Marie, and their two children often did.

Judith Light, who plays Marie Lombardi in the play, is frequently seen in the play with a drink in her hand, which was Marie's way of dealing with the anger and disappointment that comes from being married to a man who saw his family as second-stringers