Podcasts about when pride still mattered a life

We're glad you're here for our Vince Lombardi wrap party! In typical wrap party fashion, our hosts share their takeaways from the season. In this case, they also note how they really enjoyed discussing a relatively well-known individual after many seasons of learning about obscure Catholic philanthropists. Andrew, Thaddeus, Matt, and Rhen have a thoughtful discussion about their many takeaways from this season. As they've discussed repeatedly, Vince Lombardi was a man of contradictions. He loved football, and he was devoted to his players. Yet, it was his love of the game that caused Vince to be an absent husband. Vince was a devout Catholic who attended daily mass, and yet, his children questioned his love for them. Our hosts ask hard questions. How much of Vince's flaws can be attributed to the social norms of his time, and how much do we blame him for his shortcomings? How do we invest in the gifts God has given us without sacrificing our spiritual and familial responsibilities?If you have answers to these questions, or if you have anything to share about this season, leave us a comment on our Instagram (@holydonors) or email us at podcast@petrusdevelopment.com. We'd love to hear from you!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

Once the team finishes telling Vince's story, they have a spirited discussion about whether or not Vince Lombardi, a man of many contradictions, can join the ranks of their holy donors. Our hosts each take a turn judging Vince on his faithfulness, humility, and radical generosity. Vince was not a wealthy man with lots of money to give, and the team is split as to whether or not Vince's investment in his players counts as radical generosity. The debate ends in a 2-2 tie.Given the split, we look to our listeners to break the tie. Do you think Vince Lobmardi was a holy donor? Drop us a line on Instagram (@holydonors) or by emailing us at podcast@petrusdevelopment.com. We'd love to hear from you!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

It all comes down to this! In this episode, our hosts discuss the end of Vince Lombardi's life, and they prepare to reflect on whether or not Vince merits the title of holy donor. We discussed Vince's retirement at the end of the last episode, and we start this episode with Andrew highlighting the reasons Vince chose to retire when his team was on top. The stress of perfection finally became too much, and Vince retired to ease his mental and physical pain. After a while, he questioned his decision to retire, and he returned to coach the Washington Redskins for a year before ultimately succumbing to cancer in 1970. The episode closes as our hosts reflect on Vince's life and legacy. Vince was certainly a man of contradictions on and off the football field. Yet, the most pressing question remains - was Vince Lombardi a holy donor? What do you think? Join us next week to find out what our hosts decided!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

And, we're back! Our hosts reconvene to continue their discussion on Vince Lombardi's career as a football coach. We left off last week with Vince taking over as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers. Vince arrived in Green Bay to coach a terrible football team, and he felt tremendous pressure to be successful. In good news, Vince certainly found professional success in Green Bay. By placing an emphasis on discipline, passion, and training, Vince turned the Packers into a championship team.Vince's professional success, however, came at a cost. Vince prioritized football over family, and he was an absent husband and father. Marie and the children struggled to feel Vince's love given his inattentive and argumentative nature. Vince, however, remained devout to his Catholic faith throughout his coaching career, attending daily mass and praying the rosary regularly. Vince befriended priests and nuns, and often invited them to be with him at football games and at after parties at his home. After coaching the Packers for a decade, Vince retired. He created a championship football team by demanding discipline and excellence from his players, and he retired when his team was still on top. Why did Vince retire at the height of his success? Join us next week to find out!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

Join us as we return to our discussion about our latest potential holy donor, Vince Lombardi. After college, Vince bounced around a little bit before kicking off his coaching career as assistant football coach at St. Cecilia, a Catholic high school in New Jersey. Our hosts discuss Vince's early days as a football (and basketball!) coach and explore how his family's values and his Jesuit education influence his coaching style at St. Cecilia, and later at Fordham and West Point. In this episode, we also learn a lot about Vince's marriage to his wife, Marie. The pair married in 1940, and the early years of their marriage were filled with the tragedy of pregnancy loss, followed by Marie's depression and drinking. Vince and Maria eventually had two children, yet their homelife was not ideal. Vince was largely an absent father, spending most of his time coaching football, and Marie turned to alcohol for comfort. In 1954, Vince got his chance to move past high school and college football to become assistant coach for a pro football team, the New York Giants. The transition was tough as professional players had much less patience for Vince's aggressive approach to coaching. With help, Vince adapted and learned to connect with his new team. After 5 years in New York, Vince accepted a head coaching position with the Green Bay Packers. At this point, Green Bay is not a good team, and Vince is under pressure to turn them around. Will he be successful in creating a winning team in Green Bay? Listen next week to find out!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

Welcome back! We're glad you're here for Holy Donors Season 15 featuring Vince Lombardi. Unlike our most recent holy donors, Vince Lombardi is a well-known sportsman. While Vince is most famous for his football legacy and motivational quotes, his devout Catholicism is less well-known. Our hosts spend this season exploring his football, his faith, and his philanthropic legacy. Born in 1913, Vince grew up in Brooklyn in a large Italian Catholic family. As a child, Vince loved football and Catholicism. Early in life, Vince felt called to the priesthood, but he discerned otherwise in high school, and soon after, his football career took off. Vince moved from a pre-seminary school to a high school with a football team, and he was recruited to Fordham University to study under the Jesuits and to play football. At Fordham, Vince learned the four pillars of the Jesuit practice of faith: duty, obedience, responsibility, and exercise of free will. Vince thrived on discipline and teamwork, and he found success on and off the football field. Where does Vince's football career lead after his college days? Join us next week to find out!---Recommended reading: "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss ---Holy Donors is brought to you by Petrus Development (petrusdevelopment.com) in cooperation with RED-C Catholic Radio (redcradio.org).For more about Holy Donors please visit our website at holydonors.com or find us @HolyDonors on Instagram and Facebook.Holy Donors: Bringing you inspiring stories of radical generosity that have changed the world.

Stu Levitan welcomes Madison's favorite journalistic son, and his most frequent guest, David Maraniss. As proud Madisonians know, David grew up on the west side, the son of Capital Times editor Elliott Maraniss and University of Wisconsin Press editor Mary Cummins Maraniss, graduating from West High in 1967. To the rest of the world, he is a best-selling author and an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1993 for his coverage of presidential candidate Bill Clinton, and was part of the Post's team that won the Pulitzer in 2008 for its coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. Stu has had the pleasure of interviewing David about several of his bestselling books, most recently A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father, about the aforementioned Elliott. We've also aired conversations about his books Barack Obama: The Story, Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero; Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story; Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics that Changed the World, and the book that hits closest to home, They Marched Into Sunlight: Vietnam and America October 1967. Unfortunately, Stu didn't have a show like this when he published When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. Today, we're going to do something different, and talk about a book that hasn't even been published yet, because David has only just finished writing the main text, and this is the first public conversation he's had about it. It's another in his series of using sports to examine larger social issues – this time, the promise and plight of the American Indian in modern America, as exemplified by one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century. The book is Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, and you can look for it from Simon and Schuster late next summer. But before we talk about Jim Thorpe, we're going to take a few moments to preview something that's also very near and dear to David, the Cap Times Idea Fest, a week-long series of panels and interviews on reckoning with change that kicks off a week from tonight. As always, it is a great pleasure to welcome back to MBB, our friend, David Maraniss.

In his book “When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi,” David Maraniss tells a story about how the legendary coach opened the Green Bay Packers' 1961 summer training camp. The year before, the favored Packers had surrendered a fourth-quarter lead to the Philadelphia Eagles to lose the championship, but rather than focus in on what had gone wrong then, Lombardi took his team back to the basics. “'Gentlemen,' Lombardi said, holding a pigskin in his right hand, ‘this is a football.'” I was reminded of this Lombardi story recently after a discussion at one of our regional Colson Fellow gatherings. The conversation was trying to get at the root of why younger Americans are increasingly attracted to socialism. One of the Colson Fellows, a member of the millennial generation, offered two reasons I found particularly insightful. First, the church has largely avoided a whole host of controversial issues, fearful of telling people what to think, but in the process failing to help them think through them at all. The vacuum has been filled by many other voices, including from media and education, telling them what to think. Second, the historical memory of millennials doesn't reach back to the Cold War and the existential struggle against communism. They came of age just before 2008 and the Great Recession. In their earliest economic and political memories, the bad guy was what was then called capitalism. Add to those two realities that the emerging generation was never taught history or civics or economics, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that socialism has re-emerged as a live option for younger Americans. Our best response to this, for all of the issues that lie at the intersection of faith and public life, will have to be Lombardi-like. When it comes to politics, to what it means to be a citizen shaped by Christian faith, to those issues that matter most right now, it's time to go back to the basics. This will include reflecting on what God intended for human governance, what we can and should expect from those who lead us, and what the limits of government should be. We'll need to relearn the pitfalls of what Jacque Ellul called “the political illusion,” the belief that all problems are political and therefore require only political solutions. Today, the political illusion is seen most clearly in those who think elected officials are either the sole source of our best hope or the sole source of our imminent doom. Ellul wrote about the political illusion more than fifty years ago. I can only imagine what he might make of our politics today in which people on both sides of the political spectrum, including Christians, treat political leaders with near-messianic deference. At the same time, political realities matter. Elections have consequences. The stakes in November's election seem higher than ever, and everywhere we turn, we're being told to pin all our hopes and fears on its outcome. So, what is a Christian to do?  Is there only one legitimate Christian view on all issues? What does the Bible say about the Christian's role in politics? What is Christian citizenship? To which ideas must we remain faithful no matter what?  Does God prefer one candidate over another, and how do we know? Our next Colson Center Short Course, which we are calling “Preparing for the 2020 Election,” will wrestle with these questions and more, and features an amazing lineup of instructors. Phoenix Seminary's Wayne Grudem will launch the course, discussing “Politics according to the Bible.” This is the “Gentlemen, this a football” session to open the course. Then Bruce Ashford, Provost of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, will talk about Christian citizenship. Mindy Belz will walk through the most critical policy issues right now, both domestic and international, and Dr. Jay Richards, of the Catholic University of America, will critique socialism in all of its modern forms. This Colson Center short course begins February 4 and is held for four consecutive Tuesdays. Each session begins at 8 PM Eastern and includes a half-hour Q&A session with the instructors. Each session is also recorded and provided to anyone who signs up, so don't worry if you can't make a live session. Register at BreakPoint.org Most of our Colson Center Short Courses sell-out, so please sign up soon.

In this edition of the Cover 2 podcast, Don Banks and Nick Stevens discuss the amazing week 3 finishes around the NFL, the parity in the NFC East and some Red Sox talk. Plus, we are joined by David Maraniss, author of "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" to discuss the book.

In today's AMX: We recap "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi." You get a handful of applicable life lessons from the man himself (by way of me, of course). Get your weekly Excellence Blueprint at charliespaniard.com and connect on social media: @charliespaniard.

On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life in Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero. Anyone who saw Clemente, as he played with a beautiful fury, will never forget him. He was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. During his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he won four batting titles and led his team to championships in 1960 and 1971, getting a hit in all fourteen World Series games in which he played. His career ended with three-thousand hits, the magical three-thousandth coming in his final at-bat, and he and the immortal Lou Gehrig are the only players to have the five-year waiting period waived so they could be enshrined in the Hall of Fame immediately after their deaths. David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and the author of two critically acclaimed and bestselling books, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi and First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton. He lives in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife, Linda.

February 5, 2016 - On this Friday before Super Bowl 50, we're going to focus on the name etched into the victory trophy: Lombardi. Best-selling author and historian David Maraniss shares five key facts about the NFL's greatest coach from his biography, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi. If you'd like to hear more about the history of football this Super Bowl week, catch our interview with John J. Miller, author of The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football. It's the story of how the Rough Rider reformed the game, at a time when -- as with today's concerns about concussions -- some were calling to ban the pigskin pastime. History in Five Friday. It's the perfect way to kick off your modern weekend, with people from the past.

Sep. 5, 2015. David Maraniss discusses "Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post who has recently published "Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story." Maraniss is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1993 for his newspaper coverage of then presidential candidate Bill Clinton. His other critically acclaimed best-selling books include "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi," "Barack Obama: The Story," "Rome 1960: The Olympics that Stirred the World," "First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton" and "They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America." For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6899