Jack and Jim Harbaugh's weekly podcast — "Attack Each Day" — featured guests Dan "Big Cat" Katz and PFT Commenter of the hit podcast "Pardon My Take" in this week's episode. Here are the highlights:
Jim Harbaugh
“I was playing little league baseball at Stone Elementary School, got a single and took a healthy lead off of first base. I got picked off but thought I was safe, so I threw my batting helmet and it skidded off into left field. I was thrown out of the game, went back to the dugout and sat next to Coach Zuckerman on the bench.
“All of a sudden I hear this rattling noise behind me on the chain-linked fence, and my dad — who had come down from the stands — has his hands and toes on the fence. He’s telling me to get my butt into the car, but I tell him I can’t because I have my bike there — so we wind up throwing the bike into the back of the station wagon.
“After a couple minutes of driving in silence down Packard Road toward our house, Dad says in a calm voice, ‘you’re bigger, faster, stronger and better than all those other kids. But one day you’re going to run into a kid who’s better than you, and you’re going to quit — you’re going to fold up your tent like a cheap accordion.’
“So I said, ‘Dad, I am that kid.’ I was 10 years old and really thought I was the kid that all the other parents talked about — I later found out I wasn’t.”
Jack Harbaugh
“There’s no better way to describe [Baltimore Ravens running back] Danny Woodhead than as a football player — that guy is just a football player.”
Dan "Big Cat" Katz, co-host of the hit podcast "Pardon My Take"
“I’ve been watching a lot of football lately, so I’m in pretty good shape.”
Jim Harbaugh
“Only future me — and us — could have it better than we do right now.”
Jack Harbaugh
“I’ve come to call my basement memory lane. I’m 78 now, had bypass surgery about 17 months ago, and kind of looked at what this life is all about — it’s about memories.
“We’ve been moving boxes since 1954, and we didn’t open them until last year. When Jim started talking to us about moving here, we realized it was the first move we had to pay for a move in 40 years. They charge you by the weight that you put on the truck, so we decided to go through the boxes and figure out what we still needed and what we didn’t. We opened them up and found some magical things — we had never bought or sold things, but always collected. We found all these old memories and put them in our basement — it’s great to go down there nowadays and put on some Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, and sit on one of those swivel chairs and just take it all in.
“We picked out six things that we cherished most from each of our three kids, and put those up on the wall. We have a picture of myself walking Joani down the aisle [on her wedding day] — I had never felt more comatose than I did then — was I supposed to smile and be happy, or sad that she’s moving off to another life?
“One of our memories of John is a replica of the Super Bowl, which he sent to us with a nice note.
“Jim sent us a picture of just himself and Jackie, and he wrote on it what she meant to him, and how she is the center piece of his life and how much he loves her.”
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