In Lombardi’s first year, with essentially the same players as the year before, the Packets won seven and lost five. The year after that, they went to the NFL championship game, but lost. Over the following seven years, the Packers won five championships, including victories in the first two Super Bowls, a step-by-step, year-by-year progression through the ranks from worst to best to legends, all built on the foundations of one humble running play, initially described on the blackboard and then executed exquisitely on the field over and over again.
