Harbaughs are a couple of blue-collar coaches
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Four years ago, when John was a first-year head coach for Baltimore — fresh off his job as Philadelphia’s defensive backs coach — he wanted to do something to remind Ravens players they were a blue-collar crew.
Then, it hit him: He had a blue, short-sleeve, button-down shirt made for each player, the kind mechanics wear, with the player’s first name on a patch over the breast pocket. So Flacco had “Joe,” and Lewis had “Ray.”
His brother, then Stanford’s coach, loved the idea.
“Jim says, ‘That’s the greatest idea ever!’ ” John said with a laugh. “So he gives it to his team, and two weeks later I read about it in the paper: ‘Jim Harbaugh’s got this brilliant idea!’ ”
Conceded Jim: “That’s true. The idea was all John Harbaugh.”
Brothers forever, though, there’s one shirt each would gladly give the other.
The one right off his back.
