Colin Cowherd Chat With Jim Harbaugh: ‘Clunkiest Interview I’ve Ever Had’ (Video)
Jim Harbaugh is known for his intensity and stone cold expressions, but when he appeared via telephone on “ESPN’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd”, his intensity turned into pure interview awkwardness.
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Colin Cowherd loves to hear himself talk, but even more than that, he loves to get big name coaches and players on his show to see if he can siphon some mystical piece of information that the rest of the world has yet to hear or even rattle their cages.
Jim Harbaugh also loves to hear himself talk (usually), and lives and dies by his reputation as being an unshakable wall of intensity and having a dearth of emotion other than anger.
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So when first-year Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh joined Cowherd for an interview, you knew that something special was bound to happen…but what we ended up getting was a series of pregnant pauses, Ted Turner-esuqe aaaaahhs and canned PR answers that were basically pulled right from Harbaugh’s first press conference with the Wolverines.
The ESPN daytime host was noticeably excited about having Harbaugh on his show, opening up with, “I think I’ve only met Jim Harbaugh once or twice. He’s very intense, but I like intense. Most of my friends are intense, I’m intense, and he’s the head football coach at Michigan.”
Cowherd was beside himself for the better part of the interview, trying to open up Harbaugh with all the success of a declawed cat trying to open a can of tuna with its paws. The questions were excellent and insightful…the answers sounded as if Harbaugh had just woken up from a month-long slumber and was more interested in foraging than he was talking.
Finally after six minutes of awkwardness and one-man tennis, Cowherd exclaimed “I love ya, it’s not working. I appreciate you stopping by, Jim Harbaugh,” following up with “I’ve been in the business 10 years folks. That was a clunker.”
Check out the entire interview here, and prepare to squirm in your seat as each minute passes.
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