It would be different if the NFL hadn’t contrived the Harbaugh Family Thanksgiving Special a year ago. It would be different if Johnny and Jimmy Joe Harbaugh hadn’t crossed swords and shields a year ago in Baltimore. It would be different if all the old stories about how the boys used to compete to the edge of death on a daily basis, and migrained Jack and Jackie Harbaugh on an almost daily basis hadn’t already been told and retold.
But they have been. We’ve done this one, it’s barely a year old, and there are no new stories.
Plus, the worst thing that could happen to Jim Harbaugh’s peace of mind is not a rematch with his brother and the resultant cavalcade of unchecked Harbaughiana, but the beginning of an unwinnable competition with...
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