Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 - September 3, 1970) is an American soccer player, coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL). He was best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three direct NFL Championships and five total in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls in the late 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. After the sudden death of cancer in 1970, the NFL Super Bowl Trophy was named in his honor. He was immortalized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971, the year after his death. Lombardi is considered by many to be the greatest coach in football history, and he is better known as one of the greatest coaches and leaders in American sports history.
Lombardi started his coaching career as an assistant and later as head coach at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey. He was an assistant coach at Fordham, at the United States Military Academy, and with the New York Giants before becoming head coach for the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 and Washington Redskins in 1969. He has never had a famine season as head coach at the NFL, collecting regular season win percentages of 72.8% (96-34-6), and 90% (9-1) in the postseason for an overall record of 105 wins, 35 losses, and 6 ties in the NFL.
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Initial years
Lombardi was born on June 11, 1913 in the Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn neighborhood to Enrico "Harry" Lombardi (1889-1971) and Matilda "Mattie" Izzo (1891-1972). Harry's mother and father, Vincenzo and Michelina, emigrated from Salerno, Italy. Mattie's father and mother, Anthony and Loretta, emigrated from Vietri in Potenza, Basilicata. Harry has three siblings and Matilda has twelve. Vince will be the eldest of five siblings, Madeleine, Harold, Claire, and Joe. The entire clan of Lombardi and Izzo settled in Sheepshead Bay.
Matilda's father, Anthony, opened a shaving shop in Sheepshead Bay before the turn of the century. At the birth of Lombardi, Harry, and his brother, Eddie, opened a butcher shop in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Throughout the Great Depression, Harry's shop succeeded well and his family prospered. Lombardi grew up in an ethnically diverse middle class neighborhood.
The church's presence is mandatory for the Lombards on Sunday. Mass will be followed by a dinner together with friends, family members, and local clergy. He is an altar boy in St. Catholic Church. Mark. Outside of their local environment, Lombardi's children are subject to the rampant ethnic discrimination that existed against the Italian immigrants. As a child, Lombardi helped his father in his meat-cutting business, but grew to hate him. At the age of 12, he began playing in an unorganized but organized soccer league in Sheepshead Bay.
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Lombardi graduated from eighth grade at P.S. 206 at the age of 15 years in 1928. He was later admitted to the Church Preparation Seminary (Queens) part of the Cathedral College of Immaculate Conception in Brooklyn, a six-year secondary program to become a Catholic priest. At the Cathedral, he played in baseball and school basketball teams, but his performance was hampered by his athleticism and poor eyesight. Against school rules, he continued to play football off campus during his studies at the Cathedral. After completing four years at the Cathedral, he decided not to pursue the priesthood. He enrolled in St. Francis Prepared for the fall of 1932. There he became a member of the Charter of the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity. His game as a defender on the Terrier football team earned him a place on the All-City football team.
Fordham University
In 1933, Lombardi received a football scholarship to Fordham University in the Bronx to play for Fordham Rams and Coach Jim Crowley, who was one of the four Notre Dame Horsemen in the 1920s. During his first year, Lombardi proved to be an aggressive and passionate player on the soccer field. Before the start of the second year, Lombardi is projected to start the game in the tackle position. Lombardi is only 5'8 "and about 180 pounds and is classified as too small for that position
In his senior year of 1936, he was the right guard at Seven Blocks of Granite, a nickname given by a Fordham University publicist to the forefront of Fordham University's offensive football team. In the game against Pitt, he suffered severe injuries in his mouth and several teeth were dislodged. He missed most of the rest of the game, until he was called in defense to stand the successful goal line that preserved the 0-0 tie. The Rams were 5-0-2 before losing in the final game of the season, 7-6, to NYU. Losses destroy all expectations Fordham plays in the Rose Bowl and teach Lombardi a lesson he will never forget - never underestimate your opponent.
Initial career
He graduated from Fordham University on June 16, 1937. The economic prospect of the Great Depression offered him several opportunities for a career. For the next two years, he showed no career path or visible ambition. He tried his hand in semi-professional football with the Wilmington Clippers of the American Association and as a debt collector, but the effort quickly proved unsuccessful. With his father's strong support, he enrolled in Fordham's law school in September 1938. Although he did not fail in any class, he believed his grades were so low that he came out after a semester. Later, he would explain to others that he was almost graduating, but his desire to start and support the family forced him to leave law school and get a job. He will also join the Brooklyn Eagles.
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Train a career
St. Cecilia High School
In 1939 Lombardi wanted to marry his girlfriend, Marie Planitz (1915-1982), but he postponed his father's insistence because he needed a steady job to support himself and his family; he will marry Marie the next year. In 1939, Lombardi accepted the assistant coach job at St. Cecilia, a Roman Catholic high school in Englewood, New Jersey. He was offered a position by the new head coach of the school, former team-mate Fordham Lombardi, quarterback Andy Palau. Palau has just taken over from head coach of another Fordham teammate, Nat Pierce (left guard), who has received assistant coach jobs at Fordham. In addition to training, Lombardi, age 26, also teach Latin, chemistry, and physics for an annual salary of under $ 1,000. Andy Palau left for Fordham in 1942 and Lombardi became head coach at St. Cecilia. Lombardi lived a total of eight years, five as head coach. In 1943, St. Cecilia is recognized as the top football team in the country, largely based on their victory over Brooklyn Prep, a Jesuit school considered one of the best teams on the east coast of America. The Brooklyn Prep season is headed by senior Joe Paterno, who, like Lombardi, will rise to legend status in football. Lombardi won six championships. In St. Cecilia, Lombardi became President of the Bergen Trainers Association.
Fordham University
In 1947, Lombardi became coach of a new student team in football and basketball at Fordham University. The following year, he served as an assistant coach for Fordham's university football team, but he was practically a de facto head coach.
West Point
After the 1948 football season, Lombardi accepted the assistant job, at the US Military Academy at West Point, a position that would greatly affect his style of coaching in the future. Lombardi served as offensive line coach under the legendary head coach of Earl "Colonel Red" Blaik. "It is inseparable as religion with [Lombardi's] sense of self, not until he reaches West Point and combines his spiritual discipline with the Blaik military discipline so that his coaching persona begins to take on an adult form." Blaik's emphasis on execution will become a trademark of Lombardi coaching. Lombardi trained at West Point for five seasons, with mixed results. The 1949 and 1950 seasons succeeded. But the 1951 and 1952 seasons were unsuccessful because of the consequences of the cadet scandal cadet (a violation of the Cadet Honor Code) revealed in the spring of 1951. As a result, 43 of the 45 members of the university football team were thrown out by administrative orders. "A few decades later, looking back on his resurrection, Lombardi came to consider..." Blaik's decision not to resign "... as an important moment in his [own] career" - it teaches him persistence. After the 1951 and 1952 seasons there was not much to expect from the 1953 team as it also lost six players due to academic failure. But the 1953 team continued to be 7-1-1, as Lombardi had a bigger role than ever before in coaching the team. After these five seasons in the Army, Lombardi received assistant coach position with New York Giants.
Giants New York
At the age of 41 in 1954, Lombardi began his NFL career with New York Giants. He accepted a job that came to be known as an offensive coordinator position under new head coach Jim Lee Howell. The Giants have completed the previous season under 23-year-old coach Steve Owen with a 3-9 record. In the third season, Lombardi, along with the defensive coordinator, the former All-Pro cornerback transformed coach Tom Landry, turned the squad into a championship team, beating the Chicago Bears 47-7 for the league title in 1956. "Howell easily admitted Lombardi and Landry's talent, and jokes self-deprecatingly, that his main function is to make sure the ball has air inside. "At points in his tenure as an assistant coach at West Point, and as assistant coach with the Giants, Lombardi worries that he can not get a job training the head due to prejudice to Italian heritage, especially with regard to the Southern college. Howell wrote many recommendations for Lombardi to help Vince get a position as head coach. Lombardi proposed to head coach positions at Wake Forest, Notre Dame and other universities and, in some cases, never received a reply. In New York, Lombardi introduced a strategy of blocking rules to the NFL. In blocking rules, offensive lineman will block the area, and not necessarily a certain defensive player, like the norm up to then. Walking back then is expected to run towards the hole that has been made. Lombardi calls this as run to noon .
Green Bay Packers
1959
For the 1958 NFL season, the Packers, with five future teams playing in the team, finished with a 1-10-1 record, the worst in Packer history. The players were desperate, Packer's shareholders were disappointed, and the Green Bay community was furious. Unrest in Green Bay extends to the NFL as a whole, as financial feasibility and the existence of the Green Bay Packer franchise are in jeopardy. On February 2, 1959, Vince Lombardi accepted the position of head coach and general manager of the Green Bay Packers.
Lombardi created a training regimen penalty and expects the absolute dedication and effort of his players. The 1959 Packers are an immediate fix, ending at 7-5. Head coach Rookie Lombardi named Best Coach of the Year. Fans appreciate what Lombardi is trying to do, and respond to it by selling every game for the 1960 season. Every Packers game house - preseason, regular season and playoff - has been sold out ever since.
1960-66
In the second year, Green Bay won the NFL Western Conference for the first time since 1944. This victory, along with his famous religious beliefs lead the Green Bay community to anoint him with the nickname "Pope". Lombardi led the Packers to the 1960 NFL Championship Games against the Philadelphia Eagles. Prior to the championship match, Lombardi met with Wellington Mara and advised him that he would not take the job of the Giants head coach, which was initially offered after the end of the 1959 season. In the last game of the game, on the drive that would win it, the Packers were stopped a few yards from the goal line. Lombardi suffered his first defeat, and the only thing that ever happened, lost in the championship. After the match, and after the press corps left the dressing room, Lombardi told his team, "It will never happen again, you will never lose another championship." In the following years as a Packers coach, Lombardi made a point to reprimand his back if they failed to score a goal from one yard out, so he would take it personally to him and he would seek revenge. He will train Packer to win the next nine post-season matches, record unsuitable or broken records until Bill Belichick won 10 consecutive from 2002 to 2006. The Packers will defeat the Giants for the NFL title in 1961 (37- 0 in Green Bay) and 1962 (16-7 at Yankee Stadium), marking the first two of their five titles in Lombardi for seven years. After winning the 1962 championship, President John F. Kennedy called Lombardi and asked him if he would, "return to the Army and coach again"; Kennedy accepted Lombardi's tacit refusal at the request. The only post-season defeat occurred on the St Louis Cardinals in the Playoff Bowl (third game) after the 1964 season (officially classified as an exhibition game).
Including postseason but excluding exhibition matches, Lombardi went on to compile a 105-35-6 (0.740 percent victory) record as head coach, and he never experienced a losing season. He led the Packers for three successive NFL championships - in 1965, 1966, and 1967 - achievements reached only once before in league history (by Curly Lambeau, founder of the Packers, who coached the team for their first three NFL Championships direct in 1929 , 1930, and 1931). At the end of the 1966 and 1967 seasons, Lombardi's Packers will continue to win the first two Super Bowls. Lombardi coached the Green Bay Packers to the championship in five of seven seasons.
Lombardi Sweep
As a Packers coach, Lombardi converted the Notre Dame quarterback and the Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung into a full-time midfielder. Lombardi also designed the game for Jim Taylor, defender Green Bay - both keepers, Jerry Kramer and Fuzzy Thurston, pulled out and blocked downfield while Taylor would "run into the day" - that is, wherever the defenders did. This is the drama he originally developed with the Giants for Frank Gifford. It was soon known as "Lombardi's sweep," although Lombardi openly admitted it was based on the old single-wing concept.
Ice Bowl
Lombardi's Packers hosted the Dallas Cowboys in Green Bay on December 31, 1967 in the 1967 NFL Championship Game. It was known as the "Ice Bowl" because the game temperatures were -13 ° F. The Lombardi had heating coils at the bottom of the field but on this day it did not work, some people believe that he turned it off on purpose. With 16 seconds remaining in the game and down 3 points, the Packers announced their final time-out. It is 3 and a goal on the 2-foot line of Dallas. In a huddle, with the game on the phone, Bart Starr Quarterback asked Kramer if he could get enough appeal on the ice field to play wedge and Kramer replied firmly yes. Starr comes to Lombardi on the sidelines to discuss the final game and tells him that he wants to run 31 slices, but with him keeping the ball. Lombardi told Starr to 'Run! And let's get out of here! 'Lombardi was asked by Pat Peppler, what Starr played, opposed by Lombardi,' Damned if I know. ' Starr returns to the huddle and calls Brown 31 Wedge, but with him guarding the ball. Kramer blocked low Jethro Pugh and Ken Bowman hit high Pugh as Starr followed them into the final zone to lead Packer and his eventual win.
Washington Redskins
Lombardi resigned as head coach of the Packers on 1 February 1968, remaining general manager of the team for 1968. He handed over the head coach to Phil Bengtson, the long-time assistant, but the Packers ended in 6-7-1 and out of the four NFL playoff teams. In 1969, Lombardi became head coach and general manager of Washington Redskins. The Redskins will finish with a 7-5-2 record, their first winning record in 14 years. The platform that Lombardi placed helped Washington's success in the early 1970s under former Los Angeles Rams coach George Allen.
Personal life
Family
In the fall of 1934, Lombardi's roommate, Jim Lawlor, introduced him to his cousin Marie Planitz. When Marie announces her strong desire to marry Lombardi, the conscious father of a broker does not like the idea of ​​her daughter marrying the son of an Italian butcher from Brooklyn, a prejudice he will face more than once in his life. Lombardi and Marie were married, however, on August 31, 1940.
"He looks busy with football even on their honeymoon, and shortens it to return to Englewood... 'I did not marry him more than a week', he later recounted, 'when I say to myself, Marie Planitz, you have made the biggest mistake in your life. '"
Marie's first pregnancy resulted in a miscarriage. This had a very bad effect on Marie and caused her to switch to heavy drinking, a problem she would face on more than one occasion in her life. Their son, Vincent Harold Lombardi (Vince Jr.), was born in 1942, and their daughter Susan followed five years later in 1947.
Lombardi's perfectionism, authoritarian nature and temperament, instilled in his wife the ability to verbally attack and belittle Lombardi when he verbally abused him. His children are not immune from his screams. When Lombardi does not lose his temper, he often becomes quiet and aloof.
Grandson Lombardi, Joe Lombardi, was appointed as the offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions in January 2014. He was released from this position in mid-2015 season. Lombardi was previously the quarterback coach for the New Orleans Saints. In the 2009 season, he helped lead the Saints to win trophies with his grandfather's name and Drew Brees to win the Super Bowl MVP award.
Suspension of World War II
Lombardi was not on duty in World War II even though he was in his late 20s when World War II broke out. He gets a series of delays: the first is 2-A because of his teaching job; in 1943, he gained a second delay for being a parent (3-A); and the final delay was labeled 4-A and granted in 1944.
Religion
The three constants throughout Lombardi's life are sports - especially football - family and religion. His father was a daily Communist all his life and his mother's favorite photo of Vince as a child was in his Confirmation. When Lombardi was 12 years old, while serving as an altar boy on Easter Sunday, "... amid colors and red and white robes, gold cross, props, wafers and grapes, body and blood... that inspiration came to him that he must be a priest... ",. When his mother, Matty, heard about it, he bragged about his son's plans to his neighbor. Lombardi attends Mass every day of his life.
During his tenure at St. Cecilia, Lombardi attended Mass every day and "prayed for calm and control: from her emotions and..." drank his wife. When Lombardi became head coach of football in 1942, he will lead his team to Sunday Mass before every home game. In St. Cecilia, Lombardi shared an office with Pastor Tim Moore where it was not uncommon for Lombardi to interrupt the conversation and ask to go to the Confessions and that the Pastor Tim would oblige him in the office.
During his stay in Green Bay, Lombardi had emerged from his office and appeared before his secretary, Ruth McKloskey, wearing "... all the priest's robes, and he had partners with fringes, everything." Every day on his way to work for the Green Bay Packers, Lombardi will stop at St. Willebrord and "offer prayers in the event of an unexpected death: 'My God, if I must die today, or suddenly anytime, I would like to receive this Communion as my viiatum...'". He regularly attends Sunday Mass at the Awakening Church in Allouez neighborhood on the southeast side of Green Bay, always sitting with his wife in the middle of the ninth bench.
On the morning of Lombardi Avenue's devotion Lombardi told his 37-member delegation that he was happy to get them all to attend the morning Mass. Lombardi is also the 4th title at Knights of Columbus.
Nature is not prejudiced
In 1960, the color barrier still existed on at least one team in the NFL, but Jack Vainisi, Scouting Director for the Packers, and Lombardi were determined "to ignore the prejudices prevalent in most of the NFL's front offices in their search for the most gifted players." Lombardi explained his views by saying that he "... looked at his players are not black or white, but the Packer is green". Among the professional football head coaches, Lombardi's view of discrimination is not de rigueur in the midst of the civil rights movement. When Lombardi joined the Packers, they only had one black player, Nate Borden. During their time as coaches, the team became fully integrated: in 1967 they had 13 black players, including All-Pros Willie Davis, Willie Wood, Dave Robinson, Herb Adderley, and Bob Jeter.
During his first training camp in Green Bay, Lombardi was told by Packer veterans that there was a racial connection between one of Packer's fighters and a young woman. The next day at the training camp, Lombardi - who strongly opposes Jim Crow discrimination and has a zero-tolerance policy towards racism - responded by warning his team that if any player shows prejudice in any way, that particular player will be cast. of the team. Lombardi let it be known to all Green Bay companies that if they did not accommodate their black and white players equally well, then the business would be off limits to the whole team. Before the start of the regular season of 1960, he instituted a policy that Packer would only stay in places that accept all his players. Lombardi also refused to assign hotel rooms to players based on their race: in 1967 the Packers were the only team with such a policy. Lombardi is a member of the all-white Alliding Golf and Riding Country club in Green Bay, and he demands that he be allowed to choose a Native American cadet, even if there are white caddies. Lombardi's view of racial issues was the result of his religious beliefs and ethnic prejudices he experienced as an Italian-American.
Gay Rights
Lombardi is known to be volatile and lost with players during training and games, and he insists on unconditional respect for everyone in his organization. Lombardi demands "No But Reception" from players and coaches against everyone, and he will either end the coach or release the player if the person insults the sexual orientation of gay players and front office staff. According to biographer Lombardi and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Maraniss, if he caught a coach "discriminating against a gay player he would be fired." Richard Nicholls, lifelong partner of Lombardi's sister Hal, stated, "Vin is always fair in the way he treats everyone... a great man who accepts people at face value for what they are, and does not judge anyone. wants you to do the job. "
In Washington, Lombardi's assistant general manager, David Slatterly, is a gay man, as is PR director Joe Blair, who is described as Lombardi's "right-hand man". According to the son of Vince Lombardi, Jr., "He sees everyone parallel, and I think having a gay brother (Hal) is a big factor in his approach... I think my dad will feel, 'I hope I' has created an atmosphere in the changing room this will not be a problem at all and if you have a problem, the problem will be yours because my locker room will tolerate anything but reception. '"
Arriving in Washington, Lombardi was aware of Jerry Smith's strict sexual orientation. "Lombardi protects and loves Jerry," said former team mate Dave Kopay. Lombardi took Smith into his office and told him that his sexual orientation would never be a problem while he trained the Redskins; Smith will be judged solely on field performance and his contribution to the team's success. Under Lombardi's leadership, Smith developed, became an integral part of Lombardi's offense, and was named First Team All-Pro for the first time in his career, which was also Lombardi's only season as Redskin coach.
Lombardi invites other gay players to the training camp and personally hopes they will prove they can get a place on the team. At the Washington Redskins training camp in 1969, Ray McDonald was a gay player, with sub-par skills, who tried to make the Redskin list again, but this time with Lombardi as the new head coach of the Redskins. True to his words, Lombardi says re-run trainer, George Dickson, 'I want you to get in McDonald's and work on him and work on him - and if I hear one of you people make a reference to his maturity, you will get out of here before your butt touches the ground. '
Politics
Although his wife is a Republican, Lombardi is a lifelong Democrat with a liberal view of civil rights and gun control: he supported John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election Robert F. Kennedy in the 1968 presidential election, as well as Wisconsin supporters. Senator Gaylord Nelson. Nonetheless, during the 1960s he became uncomfortable with the growing youth protest movement associated with emerging rivalries, such as the New Left and the movement against the Vietnam War. In a speech he first gave in February 1967 to the American Management Association, he stated that "all has been done to strengthen individual rights and at the same time undermine the rights of the church, undermine the rights of the state, and undermine the rights of all authorities ". Because of Lombardi's popularity, Richard Nixon once voiced him as a vice presidential candidate, but rejected the idea after learning about his liberal beliefs.
Disease and death
Lombardi suffered from gastrointestinal problems as early as 1967, and he refused his doctor's request to undergo proctoscopy. On June 24, 1970, Lombardi was hospitalized at Georgetown University Hospital, and the test "revealed anaplastic carcinoma in the rectal area of ​​the colon, a rapidly growing malignant cancer in which cells almost resemble their normal appearance." On July 27, Lombardi was welcomed back to Georgetown and an exploratory operation found that the cancer was deadly. Lombardi and Marie received family, friends, priests, players, and former bedside players at the hospital. He received a phone call from President Nixon telling Lombardi that all Americans were behind him, where Lombardi replied that he would never give up against his illness. On his deathbed Lombardi told Pastor Tim that he was not afraid to die, but he regretted he could not achieve more in his life. Lombardi dies in Washington, D.C. at 7:12 am on Thursday, September 3, 1970. He is 57 years old. He is surrounded by his wife, parents, two children, and six grandchildren.
The funeral was held on September 7 at St. Patrick in Manhattan. Around 1,500 people marched on Fifth Avenue, and the road was closed for traffic between 39th and 50th Street. Terence Cardinal Cooke delivered the speech. The attendees were team owners, Commissioner Pete Rozelle, members of the Packers, Redskins, and Giants in the past and present, former students of Saints, colleagues and players from West Point, and classmates from Fordham University, including the remaining Seven Granite Blocks. Lombardi is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Middletown Township, New Jersey.
Popular culture
In 1968, Lombardi starred in the half-hour motivational film entitled Second Effort , which has been called "The best-selling training film of all time".
On December 14, 1973, ABC aired the Legend in Granite starring Ernest Borgnine as Vince. Biography TV dramas mostly focused on his first two years as Packers head coach (1959-1960).
Vince Lombardi Service Area on the New Jersey Turnpike is a tribute to people working at Garden State.
High School in 1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School was named after Vince Lombardi.
In 1986, the Canadian TV channel CHCH broadcasted the TV movie Lombardi: I Am Not a Legend starring Robert Knuckle in a title role depicting Lombardi's life to the NFL.
In 1996, Nike aired several commercials featuring Jerry Stiller as a Lombardi ghost.
ESPN produced the 2005 TV Code Breakers depicting the West Point fraud scandal and its effects on the football program. Richard Zeppieri serves as Assistant Coach Vince Lombardi.
A drama titled Lombardi was opened on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theater in New York City in October 2010, after an out-of-town trial at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The production stars Dan Lauria as Lombardi and Judith Light as his wife, Marie. The drama received positive reviews, as Lauria did.
NFL Films and HBO produced a film about Lombardi which debuted Saturday, December 11, 2010.
Awards
- In May 1967, Lombardi "... received the highest honor of Fordham, the Insignis Medal... for being a great teacher"
- On January 13, 1969, he was inducted into the Knights of Malta at St. Patrick's.
- Entered into the Fordham Hall of Fame Athletic of Fame in 1971
- As part of the Lambeau Field renovation, the 14-foot Lombardi statue now stands in a plaza outside the stadium, wearing a coat that holds a program, as it often does on the sideline.
- In 1968, Highland Avenue in Green Bay, home to Lambeau Field Packer, was renamed Lombardi Avenue.
- In 1969, the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) gave Lombardi with Jack Mara this year.
- The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University is named in his honor.
- One of the Green Bay School District schools is named Lombardi Middle School .
- The football field at Old Bridge High School in Old Bridge, New Jersey, is named Lombardi Field. The soccer field at Palisades Park is also known as Lombard Field.
- A dedication plaque mounted in 1974 on the sidewalk on the square (unofficially called Vince Lombardi Square) near Sheepshead Bay Road and East 14th Street in Brooklyn, New York.
- There are two places in the Bensonhurst area, which, or, are dedicated to Lombardi at one time: P.S. 204 Vince Lombardi Elementary School, and all Bensonhurst on 16th Avenue was once devoted by New York City as "Vince Lombardi Boulevard"
- The Vince Lombardi Service Area and park-and-ride are the northernmost rest areas on the New Jersey Turnpike, at Mileposts 116E in the Eastern Spur and 115.5W at the Western Spur. Outside the souvenir shop is a plaque about his life, noting that he is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Middletown, New Jersey.
- The Vincent T. Lombardi Council, No. 6552, Knights of Columbus, in Middletown, NJ was named for him.
- The Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic at Aurora Health Care is named after him.
- The Vincent T. Lombardi Center at Fordham University is named for coaches.
- In 1970, the NFL's Super Bowl Trophy was renamed Vince Lombardi Trophy
- In 1970, the Rotary Club of Houston created the Lombardi Award, which is given annually to the best campus soccer players, or defenders, lineman or linebackers.
- In 1969, Lombardi received the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award awarded by the Boy Scouts of America.
- Lombardi was immortalized in the NFL Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
- Lombardi was elected at the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976.
- Lombardi is a member of the Rednkins Ring of Fame Washington.
- Induction into the United States Football Soccer Pro Football Hall, Fame, 1988
- In 2008 Lombardi was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame
- Lombardi appeared on the US Post stamp first published on July 25, 1997.
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