In case you didn’t know, HBO has a new original series entitled The Young Pope. The Pope, Lenny Belardo, is played by Jude Law and is the first American Pope. We’d like to think the series has inspired Jim Harbaugh to put his son on a path to becoming the first American Pope.
Earlier this week, the University of Michigan announced its football team would be holding a spring camp in Rome this year. Yes, that’s apparently completely legal according to the NCAA. I should’ve been a college kicker.
We are headed to Rome for a week of education and spring drills.
RELEASE » https://t.co/o9IFUSR6pk#GoBlue pic.twitter.com/HNtSPb5JhG
— Michigan Football (@UMichFootball) January 23, 2017
Anyway, while the Wolverines are in Rome, they’ll only be a short car ride away from Vatican City where the Pope lives.
So naturally, Jim Harbaugh wants to bring his young son on the trip and have the Pope baptize him.
John Paul Harbaugh conceived in the Jubilee year of Devine Mercy declared by @Pontifex My dream is to have our baby Baptized at the Vatican pic.twitter.com/OlzbNeu3wq
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) January 26, 2017
I have a dream too and it involves me writing television series like The Young Pope for HBO. I honestly don’t know which one of us has a better shot at achieving his dream.
Here’s the thing – lets say little John Paul Harbaugh does get baptized by the Pope at the Vatican. Would he immediately shoot up the charts and have the best odds of any American to become the first American Pope?
If the ‘lil Harbaugh starts drinking Cherry Coke Zero and gets a nanny who looks like Diane Keaton, then I’m taking whatever odds he’s given, because there will be a Pope Harbaugh.
Maybe he’ll take the name Urban.
[Jim Harbaugh on Twitter]
