Nearly every fan outside of New York and New England would love to see an all Harbaugh Super Bowl. Two brothers looking to beat each other’s brains in on the biggest stage ever. I’ll take some of that. We all would. Except their parents want none of that. Apparently, that would be their worst nightmare ever. Jack and Jackie Harbaugh told Yahoo Sports columnist Dan Wetzel they don’t want anything to do with it because the pain of seeing one son lose far outweighs the joy of seeing the other one win. And that’s just in the regular season; so go ahead and multiply that despair by a million for the Super Bowl. That’s the type of game that could wreck a family, that competitive, forever.
Makes sense, I guess... Who would you root for? And how can you revel in one son’s win when the other one wants to go jump off a cliff? But, I’m going the other way with this: If I raised not one, but two sons to be become multimillionaire coaches, achieving at the highest levels of their profession, I’m not covering my eyes, I’m pounding my chest.
I have two sons. And if they ended up coaching against each other in the Super Bowl, I wouldn’t’ be fretting, I’d be bragging. So one loses. Someone always wins and someone always loses: if you can’t hang with that, you picked the wrong line of work. Besides, you know how good a coach you have to be to even lose a Super Bowl? You’re the Harbaugh’s, not the Klitschko’s: your kids would be coaching against one another not trying to cave each other’s faces in. Besides, what are you fretting about? The rest of us are the ones who’d have to endure two weeks of charming little anecdotes about how competitive little Jimmy and Johnny were as kids and have to sit through thousands of snapshots of them balling in the backyard. You want something to fret about.? You know what’s even scarier than having your two sons coach against one another in the Super Bowl. It’s having them both lose, one game shy of getting to the Super Bowl. Now that’s what you should really be worried about.






