Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh Goes Deep, But Did He Eat A Booger?

Did University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh eat a booger during last weekend’s 51-14 rout of the University of Central Florida?

Now, we don’t mean to be too hard on the Wolverines coach. Sometimes, a big ol’ booger gets lodged way up in there and you have to go deep. You’ve done it. You know you have, when you think you’re unseen in your car. You just haven’t done it when TV cameras are panning the sidelines.

What the cameras caught was Harbaugh’s index finger appearing to go in one nostril, then down toward his mouth.

You might be shaking your head, thinking: Good grief, man. Wipe it on your trademark khakis. Or carry a handkerchief. Slip it discretely into your pocket. Just don’t eat the blessed thing. Don’t.

Sportscasters are having a lot of fun with the clip, talking about Harbaugh “going in for the pick.”

Harbaugh categorically denies that he ate a booger.

“I have never eaten a booger in my life,” he told the Detroit Free Press. “It might have looked like that was happening. But if you rub your nose and then you bite your fingernail, that's not eating a booger. There was no booger eaten. For clarity here, for the record, I have never eaten a booger in my entire life.”

(We'll take him at his word, even though the 51-14 game wasn't exactly a nail-biter.)

Family honor is at stake here.

The other coach Harbaugh — Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh — defended his brother.

“My brother has never eaten a booger,” the Baltimore Harbaugh said Wednesday during a conference call with Cleveland media before Sunday’s game with the Browns.

“Nothing came out,” the Ravens head coach said.

John Harbaugh said he’s not a booger eater either.

Not everyone's buying the story on Twitter, where #BoogerGate is trending.

And, really, everyone does it at least once. It took some kind of self-confidence to admit this:

But Harbaugh did have some defenders.

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