The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 30 to 21
Sheepshead Bay’s Lombardi is the greatest football coach of all-time. He never had a losing season, won the first two Super Bowls ever (to round out his five championships in seven years), and is generally considered the finest grid-iron strategist of any era (and he didn’t even have an iPad!). But perhaps the greatest thing about Lombardi was his forthright position on discrimination: in the late 50s and early 60s he insisted that all his players be allowed to stay in the same hotels, and that any business in Green Bay that gave trouble to black players would be cut off from anything Packer-related. He famously said “my players are neither black nor white, but Packer green.”