Jack and Jackie Harbaugh (AP)
KAP’S TAT SHOP GETS INK
Tatted-up 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is a running, throwing — and free — advertisement for the artist who gave him the ink. “Business has really, really picked up, doubled,” Nes Andrion, 35, owner of Endless Ink in Reno, Nev., told Bloomberg News. A sports advertising evaluation firm estimated Kaepernick (who attended college at Nevada) and the tattoos will get approximately two minutes of up-close screen time, worth about $16 million.
FAULK’S STILL A SPY GUY
Former Rams running back Marshall Faulk said the Patriots and Bill Belichick’s video crew “cheated” their way to a Super Bowl XXXVI win in New Orleans and commissioner Roger Goodell has been shady about the destroyed “Spygate” tapes, but sure, 11 years later, he’s over it.
“Yeah, I’m over the loss. But I’ll never be over being cheated out of the Super Bowl,” Faulk said, according to Comcast SportsNet New England. “If they wanted us to shut up about what happened, show us the tapes. Don’t burn ’em.”
FAVRE UNRETIRES AGAIN
It’s been two whole years since we saw retired (then unretired then retired then unretired then retired) quarterback Brett Favre, and he’s coming back Sunday to work as an analyst during NFL Network’s daylong Super Bowl coverage. The all-time leader in passing yards and TDs returns to the city where he led the Packers to a Super Bowl triumph in 1997. “Being involved in the Super Bowl was too much to pass up,” he said.
N’AWLINS PLAYING SAFETY
Mardi Gras parades are underway, drunken revelers are tottering down Bourbon Street, cargo is flowing up and down the Mississippi, and, oh yeah, there’s some kind of football game happening Sunday. But top cops say New Orleans is the safest city around this week. Extra law enforcement has been deployed, and the head of the FBI’s New Orleans office said no credible terrorism threats have arisen. “This week, there is no safer place to be,” special customs agent Raymond Parmer said.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, parents of both Super Bowl coaches, met the media to share their conflicted emotions on the matchup of sons John and Jim — and even shared a loving kiss from the interview dais.
“The one thing that I do think about is after the game there’s going to be one winner and there’s going to be one that’s going to be totally disappointed,” Jack said. “And my thoughts go to that one [who] will not experience the thrill of victory.
“I would honestly have to say that the birth of our own children and then the birth of our grandchildren are the most important to me,” Jackie said. “And this is like frosting on the cake for our whole family.”