Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest coaches to ever grace the side lines of a football field. Before he began his coaching career, Lombardi taught Latin and chemistry at a New Jersey high school. He began his head coaching career at the age of 46 with the Green Bay Packers. In just one year, he improved the Packers record from a 1-10-1 record in 1958 to a 7-5 record in 1959. Over the next eight years, his Packers dominated the league by winning six divisional championships and five NFL championships, as well as Super Bowls I and II. He was inducted into the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1971. In that same year they renamed the super bowl trophy to the Vince Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy. .
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, Lombardi left a slew of great football speeches and a vision of greatness to follow. He wrote a book that introduced his famous Lombardi's leadership model, which explains how results create leaders. Lombardi focused on the important outcomes that leadership produced. He said that without results, there is no leader. The absence of results renders your leadership meaning-less. Leadership is not a position; it's a process hat produces the desired results. If a person doesn't produce, results then they are not a leader. He always incorporated vision, pride, challenge, discipline, mental toughness, motivation, passion, confidence, commitment, and results into his speeches and his life. .
By using Aristotle's Rhetoric, whose components are Ethos, Pathos, and Logos we will evaluate Vince Lombardi's Super Bowl II locker room speech to determine the speech's persuasiveness. Obviously, the speech was given to convince his players they could win. Throughout his 2nd season with the Packers Lombardi used his leadership model and its key elements to a great leader, in order to motivate his players. He does this throughout their season by using his leadership model and his key elements to a great leader.