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Lombardi’s Left Side
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$26.95
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By Herb Adderley & Dave Robinson
with Royce Boyles
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football
defenses or the problems of modern society. — Vince Lombardi
Winning was not the only thing. Something more important
than winning football games occurred during the
Lombardi Dynasty. Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers
ushered the National Football League to the forefront
of American sports popularity during a racially explosive
time, proving that teamwork transcended the
color barrier.
Along the way to greatness, Lombardi’s team demonstrated
to the NFL, to America, what football looked like
in the modern era: blacks and whites working together to
win. And win they did. The Green Bay Packers can tell one
of the greatest sports stories our nation has ever seen: five
World Championships, including three in a row. No team
has been able to win three straight World titles since the
great Packers squads.
With 40 years of reflection, how Lombardi’s Dynasty
occurred is much more important than we knew back then.
They won championships because of the character of the
players. The task was daunting and the results historical. With a collection of competent people,
Lombardi pushed, pulled, tugged and led Green Bay — and the NFL — into the modern era.
Very little has been written about the defensive side of the ball and because of the
attrition of the Packer defensive players from the era, there is very little chance much will be
published. Lombardi’s Left Side is the first — and likely the last — book about the great Green Bay
Packers defenses of the Lombardi Era as told by two of Lombardi’s greatest defensive players: Herb
Adderley and Dave Robinson.
These two players were critical elements in winning championships and moving our country
forward in a racially explosive time. The two men who were athletic, bright, courageous, disciplined,
hungry, confident, proud, spiritual, decent and black, blazed a trail. They played on the left
side of Green Bay’s great defenses of the Lombardi Era.
For the first time, Adderley and Robinson share what it was like to be a professional football
player in the 1960s through personal stories of Lombardi and his management of the entire Green
Bay Packer organization. Articulate and intelligent, Adderley and Robinson cover it all: on the field
and off. These two great athletes shut down the left side of the football field and opened up the
right side of our minds.
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Lombardi’s Left Side
By Herb Adderley & Dave Robinson
with Royce Boyles
$26.95
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S):
In 1965 All-Pro left cornerback Herb Adderley was the best corner in the game. He is a member
of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, five-time Pro-Bowl selection, was tabbed as one of the top
100 players in the history of the NFL, is a six-time World Champion and served as the class action
representative for a successful lawsuit against the NFL Players Union.
Dave Robinson is a member of the Packers Hall of Fame, College Football Hall of Fame,
three-time Pro-Bowl participant, three-time World Champion and serves on the board of directors
for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Royce Boyles has written two previous books about Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay
Packer teams of the 1960s. Boyles has established himself as one of the foremost experts of the
Lombardi Era with a unique ability to convey the dynamics of the athletic and social issues of the
turbulent ’60s.
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6 x 9 Hard cover with full color dust jacket
304, photos throughout and includes 16 page photo insert
English
Sports
September 2012
978-0-9836952-6-4
978-0-9836952-7-1
US $26.95 Canada $31.95
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