Parents of Super Bowl coaches can’t lose – or win
The parents of Baltimore Ravens’ coach John and the San Francisco 49ers’ coach Jim Harbaugh will be watched closely during Sunday’s Super Bowl — if anybody finds them — for any visual evidence that mommy and daddy really do love one boy or the other best.
It promises to be a fascinating sidebar to the CBS television coverage of the game because, as Lynn and Rick Raisman can attest, parent cams are valuable in sports coverage. NBC’s clip of the Raismans watching daughter Aly perform on the uneven bars during last summer’s Olympics in London went viral, with stage parents everywhere relating to their murmurs and facial contortions.
