Leave a Comment | Posted by Tom Nakashima on October 28, 2011
“Who’s Got It Better Than Us?”…
Posted in: Life, News, Sports
I love hearing Jim Harbaugh exhorting his team in the locker room, “Who’s got it better than us?” And they yell back.. “Nooo-bodyyyy!” The new 49ers head coach is driven, intense, competitive… and he’s as tough as nails. But the genesis of this celebration goes back to his childhood. I heard Jim tell the story in Andrea Kremer’s excellent piece on HBO’s Real Sports last summer. It was his dad, the patriarch of the football family and long time college coach Jack Harbaugh who used to ask his young boys, John and Jim…”Who’s got it better than us?” They would holler from the back seat… “Nooo-bodyyy!” When Jack Harbaugh, now 72, speaks of how proud he is of his sons, there are tears in his eyes. And I know he’s now watching these locker room exchanges, which were born in their tiny house a generation ago. When he hears “Who’s got it better than us?”… I can only imagine the pride that fills his heart.
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