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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (85805)	1/21/2013 1:12:53 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104157

Jack Harbaugh and the origin of who’s got it better than us Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:11 pm by Eric Branch Jack Harbaugh and his wife, Jackie, at the Niners' season opener. -- AP Who had it better than Jack Harbaugh and Mike Gottfried when they were growing up 60 years ago in Crestline, Ohio? Nooo-body. In a telephone interview this week, Jack Harbaugh passed along the origin of his family’s who’s-got-it-better-than-us motto, which his youngest son, Jim, has brought to the 49ers. Many players sport who’s-got-better-than-us T-shirts in the locker room – Jim Harbaugh wore his at practice Wednesday — and it will no doubt be coming to a bumper sticker and coffee mug near you. Long before it went mainstream, however, it was said on summer days when Harbaugh and Gottfried, who are cousins, were kids in Crestline. Like Harbaugh, Gottfried was a college football coach. He was the head coach at Cincinnati, Kansas and Pittsburgh before becoming a color analyst for ESPN. During a recent conversation, the cousins came upon the subject of who’s-got-it-better-than-us due its popularity in San Francisco. Here’s Jack Harbaugh: “We were talking on the phone the other day and he said, ‘You know, it’s amazing. I can recall (saying) that in Crestline back in the early 1950s.’ We lived in the same neighborhood and we had a group of about 10 or 15 guys that would wake up every morning in the summer when the sun came up and go out and play. And at lunch time you’d run over to someone’s house and a mom would make you some peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and then it was back on the playground. Then it was dinner time. And after dinner time, back out and you’d play a little kick-the-can because you couldn’t see the ball any more, but you’d put the can under a street light and could play until 8:30, 9 0’clock in the summer time. Mike says, ‘You know what? I can recall that. We’d be walking out to play. Or we’d be going home at night and we’d look at each other say, ‘Who’s got it better than us? Noooo-body.’ And that was a great life.” Jack Harbaugh later passed the appreciate-what-you-have motto on to his children, who didn’t grow up with many material possessions. But Joani Crean — Jim and John Harbaugh’s younger sister — recalls one winter in which the Harbaughs had something unspeakably cool: An ice rink in their backyard. At the bottom of a big hill, Jim and John sprayed water, which would freeze and form their own Boston Garden. Said Crean: “We’d seriously say ‘Who does have it better than you when you have an ice rink in your backyard? Nobody’s got better than you. You have an ice rink in your backyard.’ It was fantastic. They’d go out there at night and they’d have the hose out there on it, freezing it up. I think they were playing hockey at that time so they thought, “Hey, let’s put an ice rink up in the backyard.’ It certainly didn’t cost any money, but it was pretty awesome.” blog.sfgate.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (85805)	1/22/2013 12:11:32 AM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104157

Rat, Not going to Naw'luns. Gonna watch the Super Bowl with my dad, just as I got to watch the NFC title game with him. He made me a Niner fan when I was a kid, and took me to my first game at 8 years old. This could be his last (at least the last that he'll be able to recognize) so I'll be planted in his family room in the easy chair to his left. He doesn't get nearly as worked up as I do anymore, which brings me back to earth when the Niners fall behind 17-0 and look like they're doomed. <G> Eddie D. was a throwback; Denise, not so much. Yikes! She didn't do the franchise's image any favors yesterday. Harbaugh is nuts, but he's pretty darned smart, and he was right about Kaepernick. Wow, that kid can play. Even Alex realizes it, and has handled the entire situation with class. Justin and Alex both deserve rings as much as anyone. Justin is the beast that never quits, and Alex never quit when the organization quit on him. What a season, what a story. jpg