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Vince Lombardi: Pro Football’s Toughest Coach
September 16, 2024 at 2:51 PM Vince Lombardi: Pro Football’s Toughest Coach Focus on Sport - Getty Images This article originally appeared in the January 1968 issue of Esquire under the headline “The Toughest Man in Pro Football.” It may contain sensibilities and attitudes about race and class that are potentially triggering. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access.
A new name for the game: Score! Score! Score!
At a time when it seems to a great many of us that the whole world is either on strike, on fire, on dope, or on a sneezing jag because of all of the hair dangling in its face, it only stands to reason that the religion of college football should reflect some kind of fierce neurosis. And it does. With only half of the 1968 season gone, the computer can verify what the startled fan, the bewildered coach and the out-of-breath tackier have all been thinking. Briefly this: nobody can stop anybody.
The Life and Death of a Hippie - Esquire Classic
The Life and Death of a Hippie He was born, he lived, he died. Groovy Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start. You look like someone who would appreciate a good story. Enter your email for free access to this article plus our totally not annoying Esquire Classic newsletter.
Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case!
Forty-seven years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Garry Wills’s raw and unvarnished 1968 profile of King is more essential than ever Izola Ware Curry, the mentally ill black woman who stabbed Martin Luther King Jr. at a Harlem book signing in 1958, has just died at ninety-eight. King brilliantly transmuted Curry’s homicidal urge into a riveting anecdote in a speech delivered in 1968, the night before assassin James Earl Ray blasted him to his heavenly reward.
The Passion of Muhammad Ali
The ex-heavyweight champion of the world fools around in Chicago these days, more or less in exile, because he won't go. He isn't kidding. It was Chicago, September, 1962, the week of the first Floyd Patterson-Sonny Liston heavyweight championship fight. The nature of the match, evil (Liston) vs. good (Patterson), had attracted an impressive delegation of the nation's literati, among them Norman Mailer and James Baldwin.
Ali - Esquire Classic
Ali Guess the future of the greatest champion in history! Here are all the clues Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start. You look like someone who would appreciate a good story. Enter your email for free access to this article plus our totally not annoying Esquire Classic newsletter.
The Conscience of a Heavyweight
The Conscience of a Heavyweight In one corner there was Muhammad Ali. In the other, the boxing establishment, the F.B.I., the U.S. Army, and the Supreme Court Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start. You look like someone who would appreciate a good story.
The Loser by Gay Talese
The Loser For the second time the boulder has come crashing down, and now Floyd Patterson begins the weary business of rolling it up the hill again Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start. You look like someone who would appreciate a good story.
Actual Size!
Actual Size! Make a fist. Now put that fist down on this page. Eat your lily-livered heart out. Athletes are big, as these boxers show. Embarrassments from basketball follow overleaf. Don’t look for Joe Namath—he wouldn’t fit. Every Article, Every Issue. Read anything Esquire has ever published - over 1,000 issues and 50,000 articles. New issues added as they are published. Don't wait for the mail! Curated, timely recommendations so you know where to start.
The Marvelous Mouth
The Thomas K. Wolfe who appears on page 114 is the same Tom Wolfe who turned up in our October issue with the article on Cassius Clay ; the change in name was established to clear up, a generation from now, any possible confusion as to which Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel. Our Mr. Wolfe is a New York journalist on the staff of the New York Herald Tribune who was born in Richmond, Virginia.
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