Back in 2011, when he was still the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, Jim Harbaugh got into a fight with Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz after an overly-excited postgame handshake.
Benches cleared and Schwartz chased Harbaugh off the field.
Now, Harbaugh admitted on the Pardon My Take podcast that he was in the wrong and shouldn’t have been so aggressive with Schwartz. From ESPN:
“I went in too hard on that, too aggressive on the handshake,” he said in the interview, six years after the incident. “We’ve talked, and we’re good. We’re back to friends. … There is a protocol in a postgame handshake. I’ve been there as the winner. I’ve been there as loser. You just, ‘Nice game,’ then go celebrate. Premature celebration there, in the wrong.”
Yeah, Harbaugh probably shouldn’t have been that overly excited for beating the Lions, but also Schwartz probably should have chilled out.
Anyway, they’re friends again, so no harm, no foul.
