With all due respect to Vince Lombardi,the time is coming for change.......

[RecoveringCowboy]

Oh the wikipedia page wrote it in a confusing way, looked like 6.

Wikipedia got it wrong - they credited him with the 1956 NFL Championship when he was the OC for the Giants.

FYI

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Yes, they "should" do that, since Belichick is now the consensus "GOAT NFL HC."
But, they won't. Lombardi is legend. It would be like renaming St. Patrick's Cathedral when some scholars concluded that said Saint never really...well...actually existed. Wasn't gonna happen.
Plus, can you see a majority of these petty, jealous, pea-brained owners voting to name the damn thing after someone they hate? Not gonna happen.

What I think they could do, after Goodell is gone, is change the name of the Coach of the Year Award to the "Bill Belichick Coach of the Year Award," sort of like the "Walter Payton Man of the Year Award."

This suggestion at least has infinitely greater basis than destroying our 33-year-old identity for a nauseously insulting fake logo and ugly uniforms as a marketing gimmick...then again, anything would.

Number of titles has nothing to do with it. I love Bill, and he's taken his place among the greats, and there's LOTS more ahead too!!!!

But in this case, they got it right. Vince Lombardi is not only the greatest coach in the history of this sport; he's among the greatest in any sport. He uprooted his family from the comfortable, secure confines of his hometown New York, entirely due to bigotry, and took what really was the most miserable franchise in football and led them to an all-time dynasty. It was him. I think he would have lived another 25 years if he'd been able to stay home in New York and coach, like he deserved.

Like Bill, Vince did his winning at a time when the NFL was just drowning itself in shame and unforgivable behavior. Vince overcame personal prejudice, and then was light years ahead of his time in refusing to allow it on the way to winning five titles in seven years. Due respect to him would only add honors and namings, not reduce them.

No one, and nothing, will ever replace him. And that's coming from a lifelong Patriots fan-someone who knows denigration and disrespect more than anyone-and I won't stand for it toward others any more than I will toward my own team.

 

[PittPatriot]

I'm surprised the Lamar Hunt wasn't renamed the "Marv Levy."

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

I hope bill surpasses shula in wins but still ways out.

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

This suggestion at least has infinitely greater basis than destroying our 33-year-old identity for a nauseously insulting fake logo and ugly uniforms as a marketing gimmick...then again, anything would.

Number of titles has nothing to do with it. I love Bill, and he's taken his place among the greats, and there's LOTS more ahead too!!!!

But in this case, they got it right. Vince Lombardi is not only the greatest coach in the history of this sport; he's among the greatest in any sport. He uprooted his family from the comfortable, secure confines of his hometown New York, entirely due to bigotry, and took what really was the most miserable franchise in football and led them to an all-time dynasty. It was him. I think he would have lived another 25 years if he'd been able to stay home in New York and coach, like he deserved.

Like Bill, Vince did his winning at a time when the NFL was just drowning itself in shame and unforgivable behavior. Vince overcame personal prejudice, and then was light years ahead of his time in refusing to allow it on the way to winning five titles in seven years. Due respect to him would only add honors and namings, not reduce them.

No one, and nothing, will ever replace him. And that's coming from a lifelong Patriots fan-someone who knows denigration and disrespect more than anyone-and I won't stand for it toward others any more than I will toward my own team.

Agreed on the above points. In the 60's TV helped football replace MLB as America's pastime - NFL expansion teams in the South, allowed the rival AFL to succeed and merge. Lombardi was the coach of that era and helped in making football what it is today.

 

[Wax Frog]

Leave the Lombardi trophies as they are. There are plenty of good ways to honor Belichick's legacy that don't require renaming something else.

I'd say being the only head coach with five rings is a pretty damn nice legacy by itself.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Nah, Lombardi still has the most titles ever. Change the coach of the year award to the Belichick award.

I think they should name the Coach of the Year award after Marty Schottenheimer.

People today, typically, like to harp on his famous losses and shortcomings, but I think his positive accomplishments and contributions are more important.JMO

 

[Froob]

I think they should name the Coach of the Year award after Marty Schottenheimer.

People today, typically, like to harp on his famous losses and shortcomings, but I think his positive accomplishments and contributions are more important.JMO

..over Bill though?

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

I hope bill surpasses shula in wins but still ways out.

Shula's such a douche

 

[ViperGTS]

I wish I could have been around to see both Lombardi and BB coach.

Never change the name of the trophy. It is and for ever shall be Lombardi trophy.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

It's more likely they would name something else after BB. As just mentioned, names are not changed that often.

Call the AFCCG the Belichick Invitational......

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

..over Bill though?

Yeah man, there's lots of more accomplished coaches than Marty.

I think naming it after BB would be really appropriate, because Bill's always been about coaching-and let's face it, Bill's deserved to win that thing practically every season he's been here, even though they didn't vote that way.

I would be happy with them naming it after either guy. Bill deserves to be honored in SOME way, d%#*!@t.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Will never happen, Bill Belichick is despised nationally.

Not to get political but as a nation, we have gone from lauding success to vilifying it. In the 50s you were praised for working hard to raise your family into the middle class from poverty. Sometime around the 80s we vilified those people working hard and called them Yuppies.....
Belichick is a victim of that timing.....

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

Shula's such a douche

He's definitely jealous of bill and his championships. Hope bill beat's his record lol

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

He's definitely jealous of bill and his championships. Hope bill beat's his record lol

You want an example of true class when your record is broken? Terry Bradshaw on Sunday night watched as TFB broke a tie between himself, Bradshaw and Montana as the only guys with 4 Super Bowl rings as quarterback. Bradshaw seemed genuinely happy for Brady and the Patriots.....

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

He's definitely jealous of bill and his championships. Hope bill beat's his record lol

You know, back in '82, Don could have said, "Hey, that was innovative; I wish I'd thought of that...Anyway it's not against the rules, so we tip our cap to them..."

Instead of course, the jerk goes all John Harbaugh crying to Rozelle and blathering to the media. What a loser. I'm so happy we have Belichick, who will always be humble and see the game as bigger than all of us. Bill was a winner way before he won any Super Bowls with the Giants or us.

 

[fourhour]

How about naming the Super Bowl after Bill Belichick?

 

[RecoveringCowboy]

Someone run with the ball on this raw idea.

The Darwin award is given to people so stoopid they should die out.

I propose the NFL equivalent be called the Goodell award.

 

[BradyFTW!]

I don't think the Lombardi needs to be renamed or anything - Belichick is the greatest coach ever, but Lombardi is still probably the most influential and important coach ever. Pro football was in a pretty formative stage when he came along, to a point where I think Paul Brown is the only coach that you could maybe argue is his rival in that regard.

Belichick is better than either of them, but I don't think even he himself would want the trophy name changed to honor him. Too much respect for what the guys who came before him did.

 

[Alternator]

I actually agree with the idea of a change, though given present teams, the Paul Brown Trophy would seem rather oddly named.