JIM HARBAUGH Autographed Sports Illustrated Cover plus Autographed Card

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JIM HARBAUGH Autographed Sports Illustrated Cover plus Autographed Card
2 Autographs - Autographed card attached covering mailing label
Cover Only - Not the entire magazine
James Joseph Harbaugh
(
/
ˈ
h
ɑːr
b
ɔː
/
; born December 23, 1963) is an
American football
coach and former
quarterback
, who is the current head football coach of the
Michigan Wolverines
. He played
college football
at Michigan for coach
Bo Schembechler
from 1983 to 1986 and played in the
National Football League
(NFL) for 14 seasons from 1987 to 2000. He then served as the head coach of the
San Diego Toreros
(2004–2006), the
Stanford Cardinal
(2007–2010), and the NFL's
San Francisco 49ers
(2011–2014).
[1]
In 2015, Harbaugh returned to his alma mater, Michigan.
[2]
Harbaugh was born in
Toledo, Ohio
. His father,
Jack Harbaugh
, was a football coach, and the family lived in
Ohio
,
Kentucky
,
Iowa
,
Michigan
, and
California
. He attended high school in
Ann Arbor, Michigan
, and
Palo Alto, California
, when his father was an assistant coach at Michigan and Stanford, respectively. After graduation from high school in Palo Alto in 1982, Harbaugh returned to Ann Arbor and enrolled at the
University of Michigan
and played quarterback for the Wolverines, starting for three seasons. As a fifth-year senior in
1986
, he led Michigan to the
1987 Rose Bowl
and was a
Heisman Trophy
finalist, finishing third.
The
Chicago Bears
selected Harbaugh in the first round of the
1987 NFL Draft
. He played 14 years as a quarterback in the NFL, with Chicago from 1987 to 1993, the
Indianapolis Colts
from 1994 to 1997, the
Baltimore Ravens
in 1998, and the
San Diego Chargers
in 1999 to 2000. He first became a regular starting quarterback in
1990
with Chicago. In
1995
with Indianapolis, he led the Colts to the
AFC Championship Game
, was selected to the
Pro Bowl
and was honored as NFL Comeback Player of the Year.
From 1994 to 2001, while still playing in the NFL, Harbaugh was an unpaid assistant coach at
Western Kentucky University
, where his father Jack was head coach. In
2002
, he returned to the NFL as the quarterbacks coach for the
Oakland Raiders
. Harbaugh returned to the college ranks in 2004 as the head coach at the
University of San Diego
. After leading San Diego to consecutive
Pioneer League
championships in 2005 and 2006, he moved to Stanford in 2007, where he led the Cardinal to two
bowl berths
in four seasons, including a win in the
2011 Orange Bowl
. Immediately afterward, Harbaugh signed a five-year deal as head coach of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, where he led the team to the NFC Championship game in each of his first three seasons after the franchise missed the playoffs for eight consecutive seasons beforehand. He and his older brother,
Baltimore Ravens
coach
John Harbaugh
, became the first pair of brothers to serve as head coaches in NFL history. Their teams played in a
Thanksgiving Classic
game in 2011 and in
Super Bowl XLVII
at the end of the 2012 season.