{"id":1142,"date":"2026-08-28T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:05:59","slug":"the-vince-lombardi-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/28\/the-vince-lombardi-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vince Lombardi Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The provenance<\/a> of this speech<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google verifies that June 22, 1970 was Mr Lombardi’s “last public appearance and speech before his death on September 3, 1970.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dayton Daily News had a 2012 article referencing the event (“Lombardi\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like the speech and think it remains relevant – but I can’t 100% say that this is actually the speech Mr Lombardi gave June 22, 1970<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iterudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}