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I Never Played the Game pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
"Everything s<br >Coming Up Roses"<br >Man marks the earth with ruin--his control<br >Stops with the shore.<br >--Lord Byron, Childe Harold s Pilgrimage<br > On Labor Day weekend, 1970, funeral services for Vincent<br >T. Lombardi were held, appropriately enough, in St. Patrick s<br >Cathedral in New York. It was a High Mass, dignified and ma-<br >jestic, conducted by the late Terence Cardinal Cooke, and no<br >one who was there will ever forget the somber farewell to the<br >legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers and the Washington<br >Redskins.<br > I sat with my wife, thinking of all the years I had known<br >Lombardi, all the way back to Brooklyn, where we had each<br >grown up. And then he went on to Fordham, and I ended up at<br >his school s archrival, New York University. I thought, too,<br >about his devotion to his God, his family, his craft, and the men<br >who played for him, and how his simple and singular virtues<br >were often fw/sted and misrepresented by the media.<br > In the hush of the great cathedral, you could hear people<br >weeping, people from all walks of life--statesmen and soldiers,<br >priests and politicians, athletes and owners. And it seemed that<br >the bigger they were, the harder they cried, especially the men<br >who knew him best, the men with names such as Robustelli<br >and Gifford and Rote, Homung and Kramer and Starr and<br >Jurgensen. ..<br ><br >
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I Never Played the Game pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024