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NFL.com
It's a family
affair
Somewhere between Jim Harbaugh's little-brother temper tantrum and John
Harbaugh's cool big-brother congrats via CBS's cameras, this Super Bowl
became a Christmas card certainty. The Harbowl. The family week in New
Orleans. The Harbaugh parents' dream-slash-nightmare: The NFL's only
brother head coaches facing each other in something much bigger than a
backyard brawl.
It started when Jim Harbaugh, coach of the San Francisco 49ers, led his
team back from a three-score hole on the road Sunday, earning a 28-24
win in Atlanta. It completed when John Harbaugh, coach of the Baltimore
Ravens, led his team through three lead changes on the road three hours
later, notching a 28-13 victory in New England.
John, the elder by exactly 15 months, had been asked about just this
possibility last week, if the brothers Harbaugh, sons of a football
coach, had ever talked about meeting in a Super Bowl.
"Not that I'd admit to," he'd said, with an impish grin.
Well, go ahead: There's no need for discretion anymore.
Ray Lewis is going to the Super Bowl. So is Joe Flacco, who had the
audacity to call himself elite before this season started. And Colin
Kaepernick, too, a tattooed quarterback who, for 15 of his 25 years,
has had a pet turtle named Sammy. It's Lewis' farewell ceremony,
Flacco's official ascension, Kaepernick's coming-out party and, most of
all, a sea change for the country's most popular game. Staid and safe
is out, new and bold is in....
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