Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In theory, the Green Bay Packers should be binding their wounds among the N.F.L.'s cellar teams. The team has no great passer, no great receiver, no breakaway back-the standard prerequisite for a successful pro team. Instead, Green Bay uses rugged, old-fashioned blocking to open holes for...
Up from Siberia. One of the most granitic of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" at Fordham in the mid-30s. Lombardi began talking tough to Green Bay the minute he arrived in 1959 to put a backbone into a team that had won just one game the year before. "Green...
In no time at all, Lombardi realized that the Packers had just the kind of back he was looking for: Paul Hornung, ex-Notre Dame quarterback and former golden boy of college football. Like Lombardi's theories, Hornung went against the trend of the pros. In a league of...
Out of the Dark. Before Lombardi's arrival, recalls Hornung, "I wanted to get out of Green Bay. I had been wandering around in a daze-quarterback, halfback, fullback. Having a coach's backing was like coming out of the dark."
This season he has already scored 165 points to break by 27 the league record set in 1942 by Green Bay End Don Hutson, another blond glamour boy. But proud as he is of his own performance, Hornung is in no doubt as to the reason for the resurgence of...