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Raising Lombardi
Raising Lombardi

Raising Lombardi

What It Takes to Claim Football's Ultimate Prize
By Ross Bernstein, Foreword by Michael Strahan, Foreword by Daryl Moose Johnston

SPORTS & RECREATION

242 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF

Cloth, $22.95 (US $22.95) (CA $25.95)

ISBN 9781600786167

Rights: WOR

Triumph Books (Sep 2011)

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To raise the Vince Lombardi trophy means victory, and victory means surviving the epic journey fraught with peril and adversity that is the game of professional football—a unique life-changing moment that is captured in exciting detail in this collection of sports history. Each year, the National Football League awards the prestigious trophy to the Super Bowl–winning team, an honor that some players will spend an entire career without experiencing. Bestselling sports author Ross Bernstein interviewed more than 100 of the fortunate few from NFL history, both players and coaches, who share the common thread of being championship winners.

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"What did it meant to raise Lombardi? It's almost indescribable. You're at a loss for words when it happens because it's such a profound moment. Your whole world changes in an instant."  —Joe Theismann, football broadcaster and former professional quarterback

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Ross Bernstein
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Ross Bernstein is the bestselling author of nearly 50 sports books and has been featured on CNN and ESPN as well as in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA TODAY. He is an internationally recognized motivational speaker. He lives in Eagan, Minnesota.

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Raising Lombardi:
What It Takes to Claim Football's Ultimate Prize
By Ross Bernstein
Foreword by Michael Strahan & Daryl "Moose" Johnston

 

"What did it meant to raise Lombardi? It's almost indescribable. You're at a loss for words when it happens because it's such a profound moment. Your whole world changes in an instant."
     -Joe Theismann

 

To raise it means you've won it. And to win it means you've survived a season-long journey fraught with peril and untold adversity. In his highly anticipated sequel to Raising Stanley, Ross Bernstein interviewed over 75 current and former NFL players and coaches who all had one thing in common-they were champions.

 

Raising Lombardi: What It Takes to Claim Football's Ultimate Prize features in-depth interviews, rich history, and inspirational stories of determination and perseverance from players and coaches of all eras, including: Jerome Bettis, Steve Young, Mike Ditka, Paul Hornung, Tony Dungy, Jerry Kramer, Mike Singletary, and the 2010 Packers' Mason Crosby and Cullen Jenkins, among others. These players' accounts span more than a half-century of football champions-from the NFL championship games featuring the likes of Frank Gifford and Johnny Unitas, to the first Super Bowls matching the NFL's and AFL's best, to the modern era where conference champions meet in the most highly anticipated sporting event of the year.

 

Raising Lombardi is full of unheard stories, from hilarious behind-the-scenes antics in the huddle, the practice field, under the pile, and on the team plane, to poignant life-lessons and hard-earned wisdom about motivation and leadership that resonate from the locker room to the board room. Entertaining as well as compelling, readers will learn about the win-at-all-cost mentality necessary to claim the game's ultimate prize and what it truly means to become a champion. Raising Lombardi celebrates the honor, courage, and sacrifice that bonds teammates together and is a must read for any die-hard football fan who wants to know what it takes to be a winner both on and off the gridiron.

 

About the Author:
Ross Bernstein is the best-selling author of nearly 50 sports books and has been featured on CNN and ESPN, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA TODAY. As an internationally recognized motivational speaker, Ross uses inspirational sports stories as a metaphor for life and for business to energize and connect his audiences. His program "The Champion's Code," is all about the DNA of what makes champions so unique. Ross and his wife, Sara, have a daughter and presently reside in Eagan, Minn. For more information, visit www.rossbernsteinspeaking.com.

 

CONTACT: Josh Williams, Independent Publishers Group, 312-337-0747, jwilliams@ipgbook.com

 

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