Sunday afternoons were miserable for Vince Lombard!, 55, after he gave up coaching and became full-time general manager of the Green Bay Packers, the football team that he molded to greatness. So, after a year of restless prowling in the executive inner sanctum, Lombardi signaled a new play: a transfer to the National Football League's moribund Washington Redskins as head coach. The Packers' board tried blocking him for a bit but finally yielded. His new contract calls for "a substantial portion of equity," rumored to be 5% of the Redskin stock, worth $500,000....
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