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Lombardi's role in rise of Bengaldom as his Pack looms

Forrest Gregg, who brought Vince Lombardi to Cincinnati and damn near his trophy, too, so wants to be there at Lambeau Field Sunday.

It is the Packers’ annual alumni weekend and they are playing the Bengals (4:25 p.m.-Cincinnati’s Channel 12) in a game that has the craggy face of Gregg written all over it.

Lombardi, the Packers’ patron saint of a coach, once wrote Gregg was his greatest player. And 14 years after Gregg and Kramer and Bowman and all the rest dug into the tundra along the Packers offensive line to reach Lombardi’s last Super Bowl by winning the coldest game ever at the end, Gregg coached the Bengals into their first Super Bowl when the Bengals offensive line won the second coldest game before it ever started when they appeared on the Riverfront rink sleeveless for warmups.