For today’s image, we have a nervous coach Vince Lombardi walking the sideline during a time out in New York’s Yankee Stadium on November 1, 1959. The Packers were in town to play the Giants, and from the looks of the final score, Lombardi had plenty on his mind to worry about that Sunday. Green Bay lost to New York 20-3 in front of 68,837 fans in the stadium that was the home of that era’s elite baseball team.
That day, Lamar McHan was the starting quarterback, and he would be yet for one more game the following week, a 28-17 loss to the Chicago Bears at Wrigley Field. After that, Bart Starr took over as the starter for the rest of the season, winning four of the last five games. For that season — Lombardi’s first — they ended up with a 7-5-0 record, good enough for a third place tie in the Western Conference.
