Vince Lombardi Was One of the “Seven Blocks of Granite” at Fordham University

The twenties and thirties linemen at this Bronx school’s football team were dominant, with a player who would become a coaching icon.

by Rich Watson 

Vince Lombardi was such a big deal as a head coach in what became the NFL, they named the championship trophy for him. You know Green Bay, Wisconsin exists because of him. The shadow he cast over professional football was long.

Once upon a time, though, he was a young lineman on a team at a Bronx university called Fordham. The line on that Rams team was special.

They were granite.