Brother vs. Brother

Brother against Brother might just be the best competition (of anything) on the planet.

I mean, think about it....who do you want to beat the most in the world? Your brother of course.
(well....maybe your Dad or your son might fit in there too.....that is another Blog)

This Sunday Super Bowl XLVII is taking place in New Orleans. It has all the makings of a smash mouth, drag them out football game between the San Francisco 49ers coached by Jim Harbaugh and the Baltimore Ravens coached by John Harbaugh.

That's right, Jim and John are brothers, playing as head coaches against each other in the Biggest Game Ever, The Super Bowl. Wow!! It does not get better than that.

John Harbaugh



Jim Harbaugh


The brother thing in sports has been around for a very long time.

• Peyton Manning vs Eli Manning - great quarterbacks, Peyton is a living football legend and yet Eli has won more Super Bowls. I guarantee that brings some interesting conversations at family get togethers.
• The Staal Brothers....4 hockey brothers that must of had a lot of battles on the ice growing up.
• The Sutter Boys - 6 boys all played in the NHL

                                                                             The Sutter Boys

 

Brothers start to "compete" at a very young age. It begins with the first time your older brother takes something that is yours....and you are not able to get it back. My theory is there are a lot of 2 year olds that are already pissed at their older brothers, but have not figured out just yet how to get even. My advice for all the 2 year olds that are reading this is...."be patient little man" you will get even.

 

My comeuppance of course was the famous story about my younger brother Steve putting his "Sunday going to meeting" shoes on....sorry....I mean shoe. He only put the one on and came downstairs and "punted" my head across the room. It was a shock....I was not expecting it...and ever since....it has been "GO TIME".

 

We competed at every level possible. Tennis ball hockey in the hallway of our home using the doors for nets....lacrosse.....5 long shots and 5 comer inners. Hockey on our rink....golf.....fishing.....and so on and so on. We compete. We love to compete. We love to beat the other guy...and we love to trash talk about it after. It is what we do. And I love it.

 

I can only imagine what is going through the minds of the Harbaugh boys this week. It must be crazy. How about the parents? Who do they cheer for?

 

I can tell you this from experience. After the game is over, the winning Harbaugh will likely say nice things about the losing Harbaugh. It will be sincere. It will be honest. But....mark my words, there will be a time....maybe in a week...maybe in 3 years.....and they might be sharing a beer....and a Harbaugh brother will say to the other..... I kicked your ass in the Super Bowl.

(and it will feel good)