Winning wasn’t everything for Lombardi, but the only thing

ONLY OLD floodlights can make that sudden clunking sound, like an old, rickety lever being pulled down to spark the countless bulbs to life.

A hunched Vince Lombardi hustles out to centre stage and we, the Broadway audience, become his team, taking a knee, hushed and intimidated, waiting for his words.

He starts loud and gets slightly louder. He points at some of us individually, his fingers wrapped around an old football, darkly coloured pigskin. The Green Bay Packers fan in the front row with the number 15 Bart Starr jersey is told that the legendary coach only wants winners.