Mara believed that when he originally gave Green Bay permission to talk to Lombardi, who was under contract at the time, he had received the same permission in return, freeing him to talk to Lombardi whenever he wanted about coming back to the Giants. Dominic Olejniczak didn’t recall that coming up in any of their conversations. The head of the Packer executive committee was livid about Mara trying to lure Lombardi away; it was the definition of dirty pool, he said.
