Broadway Vince

Here in Wisconsin, Vince Lombardi isn't just the former football coach of the Green Bay Packers. He's a legend, an inspiration, and yes, a saint.

Now that New Jersey transplant who's done more for Wisconsin's image than aged Gouda is the subject of a Broadway play.

Based on David Maraniss' excellent biography "When Pride Still Mattered," the show opens tonight and is the first partnership between the NFL and a Broadway production. With this kind of marketing muscle behind it, some are predicting the production will be as unstoppable as Lombardi's patented power sweep.

I'm skeptical because most Broadway ticket purchase decisions are driven by women.

But who knows. The play has exceeded my expectations so far. If you told me play about football, with a Pepto-Bismol swilling protagonist, set in an NFL locker room would even make it to Broadway, I might answer using the immortal words of Vince himself...