Jim Harbaugh, You Are the Father!

Casually watching an episode of Monday Night Raw last night, they cut to the audience, and who was there!?  Jim “mother f’ing” Harbaugh.  It was freaking awesome.  My favorite coach of all time.  Former 49’ers head coach, my favorite NFL team.  Current Michigan Wolverines coach, my favorite college team.  And now watching wrestling!?  WRESTLING!?

At that moment I got a text from my buddy Brett, fellow Michigan fan. This is Brett:

After a brief discussion, could it be?  Could Jim Harbaugh…THE Jim Harbaugh, be my dad!?

Whoa, who whoa Jim!  Hear me out!  Now it might not be as crazy as you think.  There are a lot of signs, some stated above, some we’re going to get in to right now.  Let’s begin with the obvious, shall we?

Khakis

Jim Harbaugh LOVES khakis.  Jeff Kleeman you may ask?

I ALSO love khakis.  I even wore them in my engagement photos!  Look at us.  Same belt and everything!  We clearly know fashion Jim, I mean…dad!  It’s hereditary, it’s in our genes!  Not our jeans!

49’ers

If you’ve read this blog, my team has been the 9ers, will be the 9ers, and will forever be the 9ers…sadly.   As these kind people will agree.

They feel my pain.  But for some reason I love that team, even though their management is the worst.  So when Jim Harbaugh was signed there in 2011, I was pretty excited.  Almost as excited as Jim.

My favorite team just got a good coach.  I didn’t expect anything crazy, maybe a playoff appearance here and there?  What I got were 3 NFC Championship games in a row, 1 Super Bowl appearance, hell even his last season they were 8-8 with a team that was about to self combust!

So not just a good coach, but a great coach.  Life was great.  Not many people get to enjoy their NFL team being awesome as an adult, I at least got a solid 4 years there with mine.  Thanks Jim!

Also I hate you Jed York

Hating Jed York

The less said here the better.  Jed York is a little wiener who is the CEO of the 49’ers because his mom gave him the job.  To me he’s worse than “The Rich Kids of Instagram”.

Only difference is, instead of Gucci and Mercedes, he got my favorite team.  York ended up getting a top 5 coach in all of football (college and pros, hell even CFL, go ahead and debate me) and you fire him because he’s a tad crazy and you don’t get along?

Newsflash, every coach is crazy.  You’re an idiot York.  You too Trent Baalke (their GM).  So you get rid of that intensity and good coaching and hire Ron Jeremy’s brother.  Nice work. It really showed in the record last year.

God I hate you Jed York.  (But still “Go 9ers!”, and I do love the Chip Kelly hiring, but that’ll be for another blog on another day).

Michigan Wolverines

The weirdest day of my sports life was last year, when Harbaugh “resigned” (fired) from the 49’ers and went to the Oakland Raiders Michigan Wolverines. When I was a kid, I started rooting for Michigan for multiple reasons, those reasons include:

• growing up in South Dakota, there wasn’t a “big time” school locally.  You can root for Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa St. or Minnesota.  Neither being my cup of tea.  So I went with Michigan.  Why?
• The Fab 5 were awesome

• and Tim Biakabutuka

Since it was my formative years, they stuck.  In fact, the only team I’ve since moved on from has been the Seattle Mariners (which you can find right here: Cubs Manifesto )

And what has Harbaugh done since coaching my favorite college team?  Oh, just EVERYTHING!

They finished 10-3 and won a bowl game for the first time in EVER.  Got a highly rated freshman class AND are a Vegas favorite to win the national title.  WHAT?!  In a years time?!

So he’s saved my two favorite teams and we’re somehow not related?  Incredible!

Andrew Luck

Now I know what you’re thinking.  How do I, Jeff Kleeman, have any sort of connection to Andrew Luck.  Easy.

This is Andrew Luck, star quarterback, coached by Jim Harbaugh at Stanford:

This is Kyle Jensen, star individual at the University of South Dakota:

I have in my Rolodex an even better version of Andrew Luck.  And this version can kick a field goal 45 yards.

WWE

Jim Harbaugh LOVES wrestling.  I, Jeff Kleeman, have been a fan since before I could walk. The Mega Powers got me in to it.  RIP Savage, Elizabeth and Hulk Hogan’s career!

Harbaugh loves wrestling so much, he’s trying to get Wrestlemania to be at the Big House.

Which clearly this needs to be looked in to.  It would knock off two of my bucket lists at once, a Big House visit and Wrestlemania!?  Too good to be true, make it happen Jim!  Sorry, I meant to say, make it happen dad!

Ric Flair

Twice now, Harbaugh has used the talents of the one and only, stylin’ and proflin!  Wheelin’ and dealin’!  Kiss stealin’…son of a gun Ric Flair!  And both times it’s worked.

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I on the other hand, have this photo hanging up in my office:

Motivation baby!  Because to be the best!  You have to beat the best!  Woooooooo!

Random Push-Ups

This happened.  Harbaugh got in a push-up contest against a walrus.  And no, it wasn’t Jim Tomsula!

Burn.

I on the other hand, have to do push-ups every time this song plays due to a college bet:

Thanks a lot David Coley!

No really, thanks David!  As Jim would probably say, “staying in shape is great!”

Milk

The man loves milk, clearly.

I’ve had debates, if I were to have a last meal, would i have a beer?  No.  Would I have a whiskey on the rocks?  No.  How about a nice, cold, Dr. Pepper?  No.

Nah, I’m going with milk.  Milk is the best drink.  Ever.

Well I really think that’s all the proof you need.  That and our love of steak.

So there you have it.  Scientific proof that Jim Harbaugh may in fact be my father.  Don’t worry dad, I don’t want any money, but some tickets would be nice!  Maybe a belated wedding gift?  A push-up competition?

And don’t even get me started on Ohio St….

Jeff Kleeman

PS  This was blog number 99…. look out for number 100 next week!  Whatever could it be about?!