No Chicago from a political standpoint is just as disgusting as Minnesota.
Oh, come on now... this rabid homerism has gone around the bend and over the edge.
I grew up there. Lived there my first 25 years then flew the coop. Only had gone back for weddings and funerals. Loved it in my youth. It is a shame what happened to it the last 50 years.
What neighborhood did you grow up in? With the nickname Milani, I'm guessing Little Italy. Not too far from the home of the Hawks and Bulls. At one time I lived in the Avon district, on School Street just off Addison & Western. Was there back in the days when Riverview was almost next door to Lane Tech. This was post school and then when I joined the force.
We first lived in Rogers Park and then on Ferdinand in the old Schurz HS area. My mother was from the South side. My father was from North side. Later we moved to the suburbs. My grandfather owned a building with a restaurant and small rental apartments on the corner of Western and Belmont directly across from Riverview. After he passed the property was sold to the City.
Because the whole thing only exists because of him.......Oh, come on now... this rabid homerism has gone around the bend and over the edge.
Why on Earth should the trophy that honors both the Super Bowl winner and the NFL championship be named after someone with a .667 playoff record, won 6 championships in 40 years, who never won a Super Bowl (and claimed fewer than half as many championships as Green Bay has won) rather than the man who won 5 championships in 9 years and has a postseason record of .900?
As much as I respect and admire Halas, it took him 40 seasons to win just one more championship than Vince won in 7 seasons. He may be the father of the NFL, but by no measure can anyone realistically say that he is the embodiment of championship football. At all.
No other coach in NFL history has had the level of postseason success that Lombardi did. Lombardi defines championship-level football, more than any other coach in any sport in American professional athletics.
In Lombardi's short career as a head coach, he led his team to the championship an astonishing 55% of his seasons. Halas had a 15% championship rate, and even Belichick - the man who won more Super Bowls than any other coach - needed 24 seasons to win his 6, giving him a rate of 25%. More than any other coach in the history of the NFL, the name "Lombardi" is synonymous with "championship".
Where do you come up with this stuff???
Lombardi would have still made a name for himself. It would have been as a college football coach. He already had the credentials as an assistant at Fordham and West Point. That's why Jim Lee Howell brought him to the Giants, where he and Landry were the coordinators. Both had the fire to be something special as we both know happened.
