Oh my gosh!! I just time-traveled back from the year 2020!! Here’s the latest sports story from January 15, 2020… JIM HARBAUGH LEAVES MICHIGAN FOR THE NFL TO COACH HIS OLD QB ANDREW LUCK IN INDY ESPN - Updated: Wednesday, 4:36 pm, January 15, 2020 Jim Harbaugh was officially introduced as the new coach of the Indianapolis Colts, calling the return to his former NFL team a homecoming and vowing excellence for a football team seeking its first Super Bowl title since 2006. Colts President Carlie Irsay-Gordon announced today she had hired the former Wolverines head coach, just two days after he left his job as coach of the Michigan Wolverines. ”Throughout my life, I have dreamed of coaching in Indianapolis,” a husky-voiced and raspy Harbaugh, reading from a statement, said at a packed news conference at Lucas Oil Stadium. Now I have the honor to live it. Irsay-Gordon confirmed that Harbaugh signed a seven-year deal worth $15 million per year. Harbaugh also received a $12 million signing bonus, according to Irsay-Gordon. Our guy came home, Irsay-Gordon said. Harbaugh, 56, coached the Wolverines to back-to-back Final Four appearances, losing in 2019 to Alabama, and then falling just 2 days ago in the National Championship game to the Florida Gators and first year head coach Tim Tebow. “God bless, Coach Harbaugh,” Tebow said after the win. “He’s so neat.” Harbaugh parted ways with Michigan Monday night in what both sides called a mutual decision. Now his name is the buzz of the AFC South. Top to bottom, the Indianapolis Colts are about excellence, about greatness, and you have my pledge that I will carry forward the tradition of excellence of the Indianapolis Colts football program, Harbaugh said. As a Colts starting quarterback for four seasons last century in the mid-90’s, Harbaugh is well remembered for almost delivering a victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1997 AFC Championship Game, the same season he was dubbed “Captain Comeback” by fans in Indianapolis. But Indianapolis has fallen just short of NFL greatness in recent years. The Colts missed the playoffs this season, after the Jacksonville Jaguars won the AFC South, led by QB James Winston. Last year, the Colts lost Super Bowl 54 in Los Angeles to the Philadelphia Eagles and 5th-year quarterback Marcus Mariota. “You know, the Eagles proved that reuniting a college coach and his QB can work,” Andrew Luck said from the the island he just bought in the Caribbean. “I just want to get Reggie Wayne a second NFL title. At 41, we’re starting to see the wear on his tires.” The hiring of Harbaugh was somewhat surprising, especially after retired QB Peyton Manning expressed an interest in getting back into the game at his Hall of Fame induction ceremony. “Ever since I retired in 2015 after winning the Super Bowl with the Broncos in Arizona, I have missed football,” Manning said from his 4,000-acre ranch in Tennessee. “Watching Eli shine my boots every single morning is just getting boring.” The Colts famously endured endless uncertainty throughout the 2019 season after former head coach Chuck Pagano walked away following the team’s Super Bowl loss in 2018 to run for Mayor of Indianapolis. “I’m thrilled to see my guys happy again,” Pagano said from his mayor’s office on East Washington Street. “That’s the way things happen in the NFL: After 7 years of having a nice guy like me leading the way, teams usually look to go in a different direction.” Back to Harbaugh. The former San Diego, former Stanford, former San Francisco, former Michigan head coach is vowing stability. “This is my final head coaching job,” he said. “I plan to be in Indianapolis for decades to come. I know Colts football. I believe in Colts football. This will not be a hard job.
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