VInce Lombardi died on September 3, 1970, at the age of just 57. Bart Starr played until 1971, but the last two seasons he performed well below his level. He died in 2019.

The game will mark the beginning of a quest for the Lombardi Trophy, football’s most coveted prize. So yes, George Stanley Halas and Vince Lombardi will cast immense shadows over this game ...

Thanks to Vince Lombardi, we'll never know. Founded in 1960, the American Football League by the mid-1960s had become a threat to the National Football League — and was looking to grow.