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Message: <blockquote data-quote="XPack" data-source="post: 850369" data-attributes="member: 10209">He was a pioneer in more ways than one. An incident goes where Lombardi took his team to a restaurant which mandated that black players need to enter and exit through back door. Lombardi made the entire team enter and exit through the back door. There was another incident when Tim Brown was invited by a white girl for dinner with her parents. Several white players reported this to Lombardi. And the next day, Lombardi called the team to gather at the field and made it clear that words like "n*****" are banned and anyone who had prejudices won't be kept in the team. There was one other incident I recall vaguely where the hotel they were to stay didn't permit black players who were to stay a nearby place. Lombardi said, they can't have any Packers if they can't permit all packers and moved the team to a different hotel where all can stay together. What a coach and a man!</blockquote>

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