"I think when you come from a football family, you're encouraged not to get into football," Lombardi said. "You don't go to the Air Force Academy with the thought that you're going to be a football coach. But when I graduated and that first football season came around where I wasn't involved with a football team, it felt like something was missing.
"My dad said,
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