With a hat tip from Ben Volin of the Boston Globe, we now know how former San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh views the play-call at the end of Super Bowl XLIX that led to Malcolm Butler's interception.

Many have questioned why Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch didn't get the ball, but not Harbaugh.

"You know, I really thought they had a good play called. That was an insightful play against a goal-line defense, and a really neat combination that they had–with an inside pick play. It really was open," Harbaugh said on Tim Kawakami's initial "TK Show" podcast.

"And that young man from the New England Patriots made a play -- I mean, that is a play that the stars of the game don't make. He made a play that was ... at best that ball gets knocked down and incomplete. But to make an interception on that play ... what a phenomenal play. That was the play of a lifetime.

"And all credit to him for making it."

Harbaugh summed up the overall Super Bowl this way to Kawakami: "I thought that was a credit to football, the way that game was played. Amazing field of competition."