From a transcript on the Lions’ Web site: “After the game, went to shake an opponent coach’s hand. Obviously you win a game like that, you’re excited and things like that, but I think there’s a protocol that goes with this league.”
Jim Schwartz
From SFgate.com: “I was just really revved up, and it’s totally on me. I shook his hand too hard. I mean, I really went in and it was a strong kind of a slap, grab handshake.” Jim Harbaugh
Here is a look at what others are saying about the confrontation between 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh and Lions Coach Jim Schwartz, including the possibility that it might have been stoked by an incident in the first quarter.
Chris Chase, Yahoo’s Shutdown Corner blog:
Though neither of the coaches said so in their post-game press conference, the brewing discontent may actually have started much earlier, during a strange first quarter incident in which Harbaugh tried to challenge a touchdown he wasn’t allowed to challenge.
Mark Purdy, The San Jose Mercury News:
Schwartz has gained a reputation as a borderline over-the-top coach who screams at officials and taunts other team’s players, so it was amusing to hear him talk about proper “protocol” for handshakes as if he were Mr. Manners.
It’s one thing to be emotional and impassioned; it’s another to be a bad winner, and Harbaugh’s behavior will get him that reputation if he doesn’t ramp things down. I mean, look what it did for Josh McDaniels in Denver, when he chest-bumped players en route to a 6-0 start in 2009. People don’t forget, and it can be harder going down than it is going up.
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