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Jack Harbaugh arrived at breakfast Thursday morning dressed like any other Ann Arbor, Mich., dad supporting his kids’ teams. He wore a jacket bearing the logo of John’s Baltimore Ravens, who are favored to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl, and a hat representing Jim’s Michigan Wolverines, who are favored to win the College Football Playoff national championship.
If this seems wild to you, imagine how it seems to Jack. In 2002 he retired from coaching at age 63, after leading the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers to the Division I-AA national championship. At the time, John was the Philadelphia Eagles’ special teams coordinator. Jim was coaching the Oakland Raiders’ quarterbacks. They have given Jack an incredible retirement gift: two trips to the Super Bowl (unfortunately, they faced each other), 14 NFL playoff berths, three Big Ten championships—and most of all, they gave him the feeling he thought he had to give up.
