Bar service available Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 6PM to 1AM; and on Sunday, 4:30PM to 11:30PM Restaurant Currently Closed Enjoy delicious food and drinks while surrounded by one-of-a-kind memorabilia from the private collection of the Lombardi family. Along with great food and atmosphere, Vince Lombardi’s Legendary Sports Bar & Grill. Vince Lombardi Legendary Sports Bar and Grill Sports Bars, American (Traditional) 0.00 mi away. Pine Tree Grill American (Traditional), Breakfast & Brunch 0.04 mi away. Purcells Lounge Restaurants 0.09 mi away. Catering Air Host Restaurant Restaurants 0.21 mi.
Bar service available Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 6PM to 1AM; and on Sunday, 4:30PM to 11:30PM
Enjoy delicious food and drinks while surrounded by one-of-a-kind memorabilia from the private collection of the Lombardi family. Along with great food and atmosphere, Vince Lombardi’s Legendary Sports Bar & Grill surrounds you with 27 big screens so you can catch every minute of your favorite game. If you want to play while you dine, Vince Lombardi’s bar features nine bar top slot machines.
- Sunday-Thursday, 11AM-12AM
- Friday & Saturday, 11AM-2AM
- Express Lunch for $6. Available Monday-Friday, 11AM - 2PM
*Menu items, specials and prices subject to change without notice.
His name adorns American football’s ultimate prize thanks to his outstanding record as a coach with the Green Bay Packers, but Vince Lombardi was also a humanitarian ahead of his time. A five-time champion and tactical innovator but also a promoter of gay rights and torch-bearer for racial equality, Lombardi’s legacy goes far beyond the gridiron.
Fifty years on from his death at the age of just 57 on 3 September 1970, the storied coach could have taught the world of today a thing or two about more than just football. After all, teaching was very much his thing.
Lombardi’s mind was shaped by his early experiences growing up in the USA’s Roaring Twenties as an Italian-American, with all the prejudices that came with such an existence. He once got into a fight at school after a classmate asked him to stand alongside another kid to see who had the darker complexion. The sensitivity to prejudice stuck with him throughout his life, and it would help to make him a revolutionary in the NFL.
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Having graduated from Fordham University on a football scholarship but with no real stand-out talent with which to wow scouts, Lombardi ended up having to try his hand as a debt collector before quickly dropping out of the law school that his father had encouraged him to attend. It was when he took up a job as assistant coach at St Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey at the age of 26 that he began to make strides in football, even if the role also demanded that he teach chemistry, physics and Latin as part of a hectic schedule.
He spent eight years at St Cecilia, five of them as coach, leading the football team on a 32-game unbeaten run at one stage, beating many schools with infinitely greater resources. It wasn’t just football he excelled in though. He had never played or coached basketball, but took charge of the school’s basketball team and won the State Championship having read the book of a former coach at Southern Methodist University and adopted it as a manual. It turned out that Lombardi had an innate knack for coaching people, whatever the discipline.
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But while his reputation was growing, chances for an Italian-American to shine remained at a premium. Having moved on to the NFL in 1954 to become the New York Giants’ offensive co-ordinator, Lombardi later interviewed for the head coach role at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. But afterwards he received a call from one of the members of the interview panel, who told him: “Vince, you better look around and do something else because I’m convinced they’re not going to hire a coach whose name ends in a vowel.”
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