The provenance of this speech boils down to me “discovering” Vince Lombardi in the mid-late 1980s and being given a copy of a mimeographed transcript that I was told was given by Vince Lombardi.
I have no reason to question the authenticity of the speech – but I wasn’t at the event … so I believe Vince Lombardi gave the speech in June of 1970 to a group of “business people” in Dayton, Ohio
Google verifies that June 22, 1970 was Mr Lombardi’s “last public appearance and speech before his death on September 3, 1970.”
The Dayton Daily News had a 2012 article referencing the event (“Lombardi’s last public speech was in Dayton” – April 28, 2012)
SO when I got a computer – one of the things I did was type in the text from my mimeograph copy. I probably used WordPerfect.
When I created the pdf I did a little light editing – mostly breaking up long paragraphs into smaller paragraphs and adding a little punctuation.
The original text read like a transcript of a live event – my guess is that the paragraph breaks were more about time than content. There are parts that come across as a speech given by an experienced public speaker – he probably had “notes” but not the entire speech written down.
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