Jim Rome, a well-tanned man who spits hot takes into a microphone for a living, created headlines Tuesday when he slammed Jim Harbaugh for walking out of a press conference when pressed on the status of three players who missed the team photo. (As it turns out, Michigan suspended WR Ahmir Mitchell and DL Shelton Johnson.)
“If anybody thought this was going to be a kinder, gentler Harbaugh since he went home to Ann Arbor to rescue the football program, make no mistake, it’s the same exact guy. Nothing’s changed. Same guy. Same insanely intense dude that got run from Frisco, because he was miserable. He runs way too hot and he was wearing people out. Don’t get it twisted now. Great coach. Unbelievable coach. I’m sure he’ll do a great job there. But when you have a coach who wins as he wins and nobody is ever sorry to see him leave, that tells you a little something about that guy.”
Harbaugh made it known at Big Ten Media Days: If you take a shot at him, he has a "right" to put something back across their bow.
And Harbaugh did just that Wednesday, when he threw it back to 1994 when Rome hosted Talk2 on ESPN2. Rome had made a thing of insulting Jim by calling him "Chris Everett," with the odious implication being, I guess, Jim was a talented tennis-playing woman.
That must've qualified as a "burn" in 1994, because the former Purdue quarterback basically gave Rome an "Is this what you want?" And when Rome, being the puerile troll he was and is, couldn't resist, Everett overturned the table, folded Rome up like an inflatable baby T-Rex before standing over him like a prison guard begging an unruly inmate to give him a reason to swing a nightstick.
Do you remember the provocateur who went personal with another Big 10 QB and had the tables turned on him? #djvu https://t.co/0GAciV74tQ
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) August 17, 2016
We need more coaches tweeting like Harbaugh.
Source: @CoachJim4UM
