Oct. 15—The great irony of Jon Gruden's sullied coaching legacy is he helped his players on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win a Lombardi Trophy, which goes to the Super Bowl champion.
The trophy's namesake is Vince Lombardi, a coaching genius whose Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls in the late 1960s.
Lombardi invested his energy in much more than football. He was ahead of his time in race relations, still a searing topic in Santa Fe and across the country.
Wisconsin historian Michael O'Brien unearthed many enlightening stories about Lombardi's work off the field.