The answer went all the way back to 1960 on an icy mud match in Philadelphia, where the Packers’ bid for an NFL title ended on the Eagles 10 in a 17-13 loss. The way Gregg remembered it on the 20th anniversary of the Freezer Bowl, Lombardi never practiced indoors again on the way to five championships.
“If there’s one thing I learned from Lombardi,” Gregg told Bengals.com, “it was if you’re going to play outdoors, you have to practice outdoors. I think that helped us more than anything because we got more reps, more plays in that week outside.”
There has been some debate if Lombardi ever called Gregg the best player he ever had. Some give that honor to running back Paul Hornung. But there’s no question Lombardi put him in the upper echelon.
“Watching him perform, watching him execute those assignments, you get that good feeling, and he has all the requisites,” Lombardi once said of Gregg. “He’s big enough and, although he’s not quite as strong as either Bob Skoronski or Norm Masters, at the other tackle, he’s strong enough, and he handles people like Gino Marchetti of Baltimore, Jim Houston of Cleveland and Lamar Lundy of Los Angeles, who are some of the best defensive ends in this league.
“He’s a fine downfield blocker, too. His speed isn’t great but he’s very quick off that ball and he has that mental sharpness to adjust quickly to sudden situations. He has that knack of getting in front of that runner and, with his excellent sense of timing, of making the key block … When you combine all this in an offensive tackle with his ability and willingness to play guard you’ve got quite a man.”
Bengaldom couldn’t have agreed more.
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