The Chargers ’ faithful know this feeling well. That moment when the play call feels too cute, too clever by half, when the gut screams for straightforward, hard-knuckle football. It’s the tension between Lombardi’s ground-and-pound ethos and the siren song of the highlight reel. For one member of the extended Bolt family, watching from the plush confines of a SoFi Stadium suite, that tension finally snapped.

Grace Harbaugh , daughter of head coach Jim Harbaugh and a Division I water polo athlete forged in the crucible of competitive sports, took to Instagram with a plea as pure as a fullback dive: “enough with the trick plays Burt, run the dang ball!”

It wasn’t malice. It was the exasperated sigh of someone raised on X’s and O’s at the dinner table, someone who understands the b

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