NEW ORLEANS — As the hours tick down to the actual kickoff of Super Bowl XLVII, a.k.a. “The Harbowl,” we are continually regaled with the tales of incredible courage, conviction and bravado it took for Jim Harbaugh to bench Alex Smith, at the time the NFL’s fourth-highest-rated QB, for the unknown and untested Colin Kaepernick, knowing his club was expected to make a serious run at a Super Bowl. I agree: Younger brother Harbaugh showed a pair of stones James Bond would be proud of.

What I don’t understand is why big brother John doesn’t get just as much credit for firing his offensive coordinator, Cam Cameron, with a 9-4 record and just three games left in the season while still in contention for a No. 1 seed, and replacing him with a guy who had never coordinated an offense and while, albeit had been a head coach, had never even called his own plays?

I believe John Harbaugh’s delegation of his offense to Jim Caldwell has more to do with the Ravens being in New Orleans than Jim Harbaugh’s decision to go with Kaepernick has to do with the 49ers' success. What I’d love to know is how the Ravens head coach felt when his club had one of its most dismal performances of the season on offense in Caldwell’s first game and closed the season dropping four of its last five, including two of three after Caldwell took over?