And yes, they look a lot alike. But no, they're not twins. John has all the older brother bragging rights, but Jim probably got all the younger sibling special treatment. John also has the Super Bowl trump card, having defeated his baby brother in the edition of the big game. But regardless of who's older, they've both carved out strong coaching careers.
The elder brother, John, started his coaching career in college before moving to the pros and holding down a decade-plus-long tenure as the Ravens' head coach. Jim, on the other hand, began coaching in the NFL before shifting back to college, and after one NFL pit stop, he's back in the amateur ranks as the head coach at Michigan.
John is the older brother, born in September , while Jim was born in December They're the sons of Jackie Cipiti and Jack Harbaugh. It's not like we have to explain how we're thinking to one another.
Usually, we're three steps ahead with each other in the conversations. It's like, 'How did we get to this point? And there was that competitive part of it. His coaching tree has combined for a record of in the regular season and in the playoffs during their six seasons as head coach after serving on his coaching staffs.
Ryan was born on Thursday, December 13, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. Rex and Rob Ryan both graduated from Southwest college Oklahoma State before embarking on their own respective coaching careers. Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. Rex and Rob Ryan decided to go their own ways in coaching a long time ago, which makes the list of people who played under or coached alongside the identical twins a short one. Not only has the Jets defensive assistant played alongside and coached under the Ryan brothers, but Weeks also was their roommate at Southwest Oklahoma State in the early s.
Like most who have been around both of the famously boisterous Ryan brothers in football, Weeks has his share of funny moments to retell. Little wonder the nation's media were so quick to re-christen this game as the "HarBowl".
More has been written about John and Jim's story this week than about the players on their teams. Even the two coaches' parents, Jack and Jackie, have acquired celebrity status. So great was the volume of interview requests from reporters seeking out family anecdotes that the couple eventually decided to host their own press conference at the Super Bowl media centre. Jack was himself a football coach for more than 40 years — working his way up from high-school jobs to college.
Both John and Jim have cited him as their role model, saying their father never pushed them into football but always involved them in his world — bringing them to practice as kids and sitting up with them, watching his teams' game films, in the evening.
He also instilled in them a mantra. Each morning, when dropping John and Jim off for school, Jack would remind his boys that whatever challenges the day might bring, they must attack them with an "enthusiasm unknown to mankind".
Jim, the younger brother, did not need to be told twice. In the Harbaugh family narrative, he was the born competitor — one whose relentless commitment to winning led teachers to phone home in despair.
Jack and Jackie were called to the school and informed that Jim was upsetting the other children with his ruthlessness in playground games. They dismissed the teacher's concerns as the symptom of an education system which celebrated mediocrity.
Decades later, that competitiveness remains Jim's defining characteristic. The 49ers offensive co-ordinator, Greg Roman, said on Wednesday:.
He is the same no matter what we do. Just last year a group of us [coaches] climbed a mountain in California together and he absolutely had to be the first one to the top. Whenever there is any opportunity to compete, you know Jim is going to give you his best. Despite being younger, Jim was also the superior athlete — a quarterback with a powerful arm who was a first-round pick for the Chicago Bears in the NFL draft.
He enjoyed 14 years as a pro, and during the last seven years of that career spent his free time assisting his father at Western Kentucky. Upon retirement, Jim moved seamlessly into full-time coaching. That, for Jim, was always the plan — to follow in his father's footsteps. John's path was less clear. A fierce competitor in his own right, he had played as a defensive back for the University of Miami Ohio , but always knew he was unlikely to reach the NFL.
His interests were more diverse and, after injuries persuaded him to drop the sport during his final year of college, he considered a career in politics.
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