The heads of both teams met as the Ravens and the Chargers warmed up on Monday night during the pre-game session: https://twitter.com/NFL путем Кирилла Вебера/state/status/1213995141048409865. The events are the third identical meeting between the two brothers on the NFL trainers and the first after the final of the same 2012-2013, where the Ravens won 34-31 over the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans. The other regular-season game was played on Thanksgiving night in 2011. Other games saw the Ravens beating the Niners 16-6 in Baltimore.
Jim Harbaugh, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, resigned at the end of the 2014 season to go back to Michigan. Harbaugh was at Michigan for nine years and led the team to the national championship last year before he joined the Chargers. He said in the interview held last week he was happy he could face his brother once more.
“Getting up and walking off that field during that Super Bowl is like saying, Well, there will be another day. This was followed by ‘year.’ And then there wasn’t for many years, and it looked like I wouldn’t have a chance at another day,’ he said. “But by the grace of God, I am now back in it and back in it with a team that has a chance.”
The brothers stoked it for a couple minutes and took pictures, then went back to their corners. “I love my brother. But I would die for them, yes, even my brother here. But I would not let him win a football game,” Jim Harbaugh said in reply to a question posed to him by ESPN during the pre-game show. I’m sure he wouldn’t want it that way. It’s cold, so let’s get it on.” Even before this game, John Harbaugh said that coaching against his brother is not easy because often their teams are almost identical.
‘It’s like the things that we enjoy in each other, and then those things that we started discovering as we came and found that are the same person that we dislike,’ he said to ESPN. “He’s a great coach. He’s a great man. He’s a great leader; he has a great football team, so that actually makes it even more difficult. Their parents, Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, were both 64 years old and got married on Monday this week. They went to the first two games having to do with the brothers but are going to be home this Thanksgiving week at their daughter Joanie’s house in Bradenton, Florida.