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Magnificent Seven
Magnificent Seven

Magnificent Seven

The Championship Games That Built the Lombardi Dynasty
By Bud Lea, Foreword by Paul Hornung, Introduction by Bart Starr, Afterword by Vince Lombardi

SPORTS & RECREATION

208 Pages, 8.125 x 9.125

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $17.95 (US $17.95) (CA $19.95)

ISBN 9781572436701

Rights: WOR

Triumph Books (Sep 2004)

Price: $17.95
 
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Overview

No other coach, franchise and city have been as linked as Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers were in the 1960s. The winners of five titles in seven years, the Packers were the dominant team in the NFL under Lombardi. No other book has ever look at the championships that built the Packers' mystique.

Author Biography

Bud Lea
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Bud Lea was the Milwaukee Sentinel's beat writer for the Packers from 1954-72 before being the paper's sports editor from 1972-80 and sports columnist from 1980-95. A native of Green Bay and a reporter or editor in Wisconsin for more than five decades, Lea is also the author of Heir to the Legacy. Lea lives with his wife, Filomena, in Glendale, Wisc.Vernon Biever was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in July 2002. For more than 60 years he had photographed the Packers. His pictures have appeared in more than 100 books as well as being published in countless publications including Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek and Vanity Fair.

Press Releases

One man. One team. One city.

\'Titletown USA\' (a.k.a. Green Bay, Wisc.) would have never existed if not for the Green Bay Packers.

The Green Bay Packers would never have won the five NFL championships and two NFC championships in seven years that yielded the town\'s proud moniker had it not been for Head Coach Vince Lombardi.

Magnificent Seven: The Championship Games That Built The Lombardi Dynasty by Bud Lea (Foreword by Paul Hornung, Introduction by Bart Starr, Afterword by Vince Lombardi Jr.) examines how the Packers became the championship prototype by which other teams measured their success in the NFL\'s formative years.

In the 1960s, Lombardi\'s Packers turned the smallest national market in the NFL into the home of the most successful football team in league history. The first team to win five titles in a seven-year span, the Green Bay Packers became synonymous with championships as the NFL emerged on the forefront of the national sports scene.

The first book to research the seven key games that created the Packers\' myth, Magnificent Seven gathers anecdotes and strategy from the squads that won the three pre-Super Bowl titles (1961, 1962, 1965), Super Bowls 1 (1967) and II (1968) as well as the NFC Championships in 1966 and 1967.

In Magnificent Seven, find out:

 

 

· Why Green Bay\'s Jim Taylor taunted the N.Y. Giants in the 1962 championship game by asking, \'How do I smell from here?\'
· How future Hall of Fame players Paul Hornung, Bart Starr, Willie Davis, Ray Nitschke, Forrest Gregg and Jim Taylor learned to listen and work with the bombastic Lombardi every day
· About Lombardi\'s \"mad scientist\" tactics that produced the infamous \'Ice Bowl\' of 1967
· How receiver Max McGee was able to party late the night before, but still had a stellar performance in Green Bay\'s first Super Bowl

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER
Bud Lea was the Milwaukee Sentinel\'s beat writer for the Packers from 1954-72 before being the paper\'s sports editor from 1972-80 and sports columnist from 1980-95. A native of Green Bay and a reporter or editor in Wisconsin for more than five decades, Lea is also the author of Heir to the Legacy. Lea lives with his wife, Filomena, in Glendale, Wisc.

Vernon Biever was inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame in July 2002. For more than 60 years he had photographed the Packers. His pictures have appeared in more than 100 books as well as being published in countless publications including Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek and Vanity Fair.