A snippet from Bob Curran’s very fun, 1969 The $400,000 Quarteback Or: The League That Came in from the Cold: "As it is now told, Vince Lombardi, the Packers coach, sneered and said that there were three or four teams in the NFL better than the Chiefs. Here is what actually happened.
"One writer, desperate for an angle, kept interrupting to ask Vince if the Chiefs were not a good as many of the teams in the NFL. Finally Vince turned to him and said, 'All right. Maybe there are three or four teams in our league that are better teams than the Chiefs. Now is that what you wanted me to say?'
"It was, and the writer wrote the story without the byplay. And as time went by it was reported that Vince had offered the opinion gratuitously."[1]
[1] Curran, Bob. The $400,000 Quarteback Or: The League That Came in from the Cold (New York: Signet, 1969) 232.
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