“Every football team eventually arrives at a lead play. It becomes the team’s bread-and-butter play; the top priority play. It is the play that the team knows it must make go, and the one opponents know they must stop…My number 1 play has been the Power Sweep…there’s nothing spectacular about it; it’s just a yard gainer.”
So begins Vince Lombardi’s coaching video on his famed Lombardi Sweep. While Lombardi did not create the Power Sweep, it’s hard to think of a play more tightly connected to a coach. Lombardi saw the play not just as a play, but as a guiding ethos.