num_pages: 304
description: John Eisenberg's That First Season is the seldom-studied prequel to a phenomenal football career for Vince Lombardi and the Packers drawing on exhaustive new research and interviews to tell an incredible ensemble tale of a team a town and their leader. The once-vaunted Green Bay Packers were a laughing stock by the late 1950s. They hadn't fielded a winning team in more than a decade and were close to losing their franchise to another city. They were in desperate need of a savior and he arrived in a wood-paneled station wagon in the dead of winter from New York City. In a single year Vince Lombardithe grizzled coach who took no bulltransformed a team of underachievers into winners and resurrected a city known for its passion for sport.
language: English
title: That First Season: How Vince Lombardi Took the Worst Team in the NFL and Set It on the Path to Glory
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt