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<blockquote data-quote="Croak" data-source="post: 624226" data-attributes="member: 2367"><p>This is a piece of an interesting article entitled; "<a href="http://www.excite.com/events/blog/top-10-unbreakable-records-in-the-nfl/" target="_blank">Top Ten Unbreakable Records of the NFL"</a> (But I agree it would be nice to have a "dynasty" more recently.)</p><p></p><p>"Vince Lombardi once said “winning is a habit.” Nobody knew more about wining than Lombardi himself, a true legend of football. One of the most successful coaches in <a href="http://www.excite.com/events/NFL.php" target="_blank">NFL</a> history, Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967. Under him, the Packers won five National Football League championships in seven years, including three consecutive titles as well as winning the first two Super Bowls. His achievements got him the respect and admiration of his peers who honored his memory by renaming the <a href="http://www.excite.com/events/sports-tickets/Super-Bowl/index.php" target="_blank">NFL Super Bowl</a> trophy ‘the Vince Lombardi Trophy’ in 1970.</p><p></p><p>Vince Lombardi achieved something that no one has been able to match to this day. Don Shula has the record for most wins by a coach with 328, followed by George Halas and Tom Landry but neither could match Lombardi’s 90% post season winning percentage. He won 96 regular season games in his ten years in charge with a 72.8% winning rate, including his time with the Washington Redskins who he led to their first winning season in thirteen years.</p><p></p><p>He also managed to record an 84.0% winning percentage in pre season games, but it was his 90% winning rate in the postseason that was a truly remarkable achievement. He only lost one postseason game out of the ten that his teams played and won five championships along the way. The match that he did lose was to <a href="http://www.excite.com/events/sports-tickets/Philadelphia-Eagles/index.php" target="_blank">the Philadelphia Eagles</a> by only four points with the final score being 17-13. To this day, no other coach has even come close to breaking Lombardi’s record and it seems like no one ever will."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Croak, post: 624226, member: 2367"] This is a piece of an interesting article entitled; "[URL='http://www.excite.com/events/blog/top-10-unbreakable-records-in-the-nfl/']Top Ten Unbreakable Records of the NFL"[/URL] (But I agree it would be nice to have a "dynasty" more recently.) "Vince Lombardi once said “winning is a habit.” Nobody knew more about wining than Lombardi himself, a true legend of football. One of the most successful coaches in [URL='http://www.excite.com/events/NFL.php']NFL[/URL] history, Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967. Under him, the Packers won five National Football League championships in seven years, including three consecutive titles as well as winning the first two Super Bowls. His achievements got him the respect and admiration of his peers who honored his memory by renaming the [URL='http://www.excite.com/events/sports-tickets/Super-Bowl/index.php']NFL Super Bowl[/URL] trophy ‘the Vince Lombardi Trophy’ in 1970. Vince Lombardi achieved something that no one has been able to match to this day. Don Shula has the record for most wins by a coach with 328, followed by George Halas and Tom Landry but neither could match Lombardi’s 90% post season winning percentage. He won 96 regular season games in his ten years in charge with a 72.8% winning rate, including his time with the Washington Redskins who he led to their first winning season in thirteen years. He also managed to record an 84.0% winning percentage in pre season games, but it was his 90% winning rate in the postseason that was a truly remarkable achievement. He only lost one postseason game out of the ten that his teams played and won five championships along the way. The match that he did lose was to [URL='http://www.excite.com/events/sports-tickets/Philadelphia-Eagles/index.php']the Philadelphia Eagles[/URL] by only four points with the final score being 17-13. To this day, no other coach has even come close to breaking Lombardi’s record and it seems like no one ever will." [/QUOTE]
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