Jim Harbaugh is a Hero - Follow-Up
Just a follow-up piece. Apparently the victim didn't know who was helping her until later when a state cop told her that it was Jim Harbaugh, football coach extraordinaire and part-time EMT, who came to her rescue.
Sounds like the accident was pretty bad, so kudos to JH for stopping to help.
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/03/i-94_crash_jim_harbaugh_woman.html
Just did what needed to be done
I once saved a kitten from a burning building!
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of course, I'm the one who set the building on fire, so . . .
But the kitten's OK?
The FREEP says Harbaugh should have acted quicker.
Drew Sharp says Harbaugh should have known there would be an accident and should have prevented it.
They are also looking into whether those blankets and coats provided to see if there are any potential NCAA infractions.
Rosenberg is on loan from Sports Illustrated to continue his career of fictional writing.
911 immediately.
Or get to a Sprint store.
(Yeah I winced typing that out, but, its what the zone is called, what can I do about it.)
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David Ablauf said both Harbaugh and Minick declined to comment on the incident."They believe they were doing what any other individual would do for another when they stopped and assisted," he said in an email.
This is the money quote for me. You do something because it is the right thing to do, not because it will result in good pub or a photo op, etc. This reflects well on JH and Minick. "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe.
FTR, Eleven Warriors, albeit grudgingly, gave props to JH several days ago on this. I guess I cringe a bit at all the posts denegrating Meyer/Dantonio/Saban/Weis/Hoke. As I reflect on Bo, I believe he was Woody's fiercest rival, but the men respected each other and weren't snarky about each other. I heard more than a little snark from D. Brandon. I don't think that is Harbaugh's MO. Just my two cents.
Well considering that the MSU coach essentially told when one of our stadium officials to "F off" after the official wished him well healthwise, its kind of hard to respect the guy. Not to mention his many other juvenile antics which are rarely brought to light and criticized as petty.
2. Harbaugh is so snarky. The man subtweeted another grown adult. Then tried to play it coy.
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. . . and it worked!
is awesome.
I love me some snark. I am sure you're right about JH (and that tweet of his.) I'm also sure that Meyer and Saban can be snarky.
I think the thing for me is not the snark, but what you apply it to. I would hope and assume that all of the coaches I listed would do the right thing in a situation like this. It would bug me if Meyer had done this, for mgobloggers to dismiss his actions as being self-serving and cold and calculated. That's all I was saying, and I think it was underscored by the fact that JH and Minick refused comment. They probably would have been happier if no one had known what they had done.
I find it interesting that JH regularly goes to do service work in South America . . . but there is not a whole lot published about it. He is happy to do it, but would prefer to do it without any publicity or accolades. Would that all of us acted in that way.
That's the quote which stood out to me as well. If there is anyone you would want mentoring a team and helping a group come together as a team, it would be someone who acted as in the quite wonderful quote from Arthur Ashe that you mentioned here. From that standpoint, I am even more confident we're in for some nice years of football moving forward.
I always equated JoePa to Bernie in Weekend at Bernie's. Towards the end you would see JoePa propped up in the press box, or they would wheel him along the sidelines in a golf cart. It was ironic that he passed away a few months after he was fired, but he had probably had been dead for many years and they just kept parading him around Happy Valley, just like in the Weekend at Bernie's movie.
Those weirdos will dig him up and do it.
He was football-dead for the last 20 years.
Harbaugh has helped a motorist in peril. I can't find proof of it on the interweb, but remember him stopping to help a motorist when driving from Indianapolis either to Chicago or Detroit. So long ago but he has a habit of stepping up for his fellow human.
when I was a youngster at the '89 spring game, he was in attendence and I went up to him and asked him for his autograph and he was very polite and signed my program for me.
And then he sewed your arm back on that was severed by the hot dog vendor not paying attention with his knife. Right?
Disappointed in the U-M fanbase. :-)
JT would have stopped, told the ladies he was "getting on it ASAP", wished the women a Happy Easter, then sped off, leaving the scene while yelling "Go Bucks!"
JT out of Michigan forever.
True story: I was driving from Ann Arbor to Dayton once, and I crashed into the wall that Jim Tressel put around Ohio.
But Jim Harbaugh came to rescue me and gave me CPR. He told me not to tell anyone, because this is just what leaders do. Then he ate.
Knowing that Saban was in route to help.
spent arresting people for having a dime bag of pot? Yeah, I wouldn't say you're a hero either.
But you're right, helping someone after an accident doesn't make you a hero, just a decent human being.
Francis, it was a joke. I work with several former federal LEO's. All of whom have a pretty good sense of humor.
That's the problem with blogs and tweets. People like you get "Internet Courage". You say things on the Internet you wouldn't have the balls to say to someone's face.
You're fucking with me, right? You are so far off base here that I don't even know why I'm responding.
First, "Lighten up Francis" is a well-known quote from the 1981 smash hit comedy Stripes, starring Bill Murray and the late Harold Ramis and John Candy. It has since become a popular internet meme used when people are taking something meant in jest too seriously.
Here's a photo example.
Also, I have plenty of courage in real life too. And any LEO that's insulted by my little joke isn't someone I'd like to be hanging out with anyway.