Posted on 03/17/2014 2:52:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Who could win in a push-up contest: San Francisco 49ers football coach Jim Harbaugh or a walrus?
Well, you'll just have to determine the push-up champ yourself by watching a video Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo sent out Sunday showing just that: The coach versus the pinniped.
In an impromptu workout session, a 17-second video shows the 215-pound Harbaugh and the 1,750-pound Siku bending elbows – and flippers – while pressing and flexing their pecs. By Monday afternoon, the video had been seen more than 12,000 times, four times as many as in the morning.
Harbaugh was wearing not his trademark khaki slacks but rather a long-sleeved gray T-shirt and white striped shorts. He went nose-to-nose with the fleshy beast, shouting "Up, down! Up, down!" to Siku, who mimicked the coach, earning herself a raw fish. (Harbaugh declined a treat.)
Park spokeswoman Nancy Chan told NBC Bay Area that Harbaugh was visiting the park with his extended family from out of town and did several "animal meet-and-greets." He bottle-fed milk to a tiger, fed an elephant bananas, petted a dolphin and kissed a sea lion.
When marine mammal trainer Abby Warner showed Harbaugh that Siku could do situps and push-ups, Chan said the football coach said eagerly, "Can I do this?"
Chan said the whole thing was "so much fun," she just had to grab a video and post it on the theme park's YouTube channel, SFDKLandSeaSky . She asked Harbaugh's permission to send it out. He said sure.
"He was just so gracious," she said.
It was a different side of Harbaugh that fans don't usually get to see. The coach is more apt to be called high-strung and hard-nosed than quirky and whimsical. The push-up video had people like Connor Root tweeting out that it made him "dislike" Harbaugh "just a bit less."
Others were tweeting "Can't. Look. Away." ESPN's Travis Haney tweeted, "Yeah, but what sort of slacks was the walrus wearing?"
The football coach is no stranger to this amusement park. In June, he was at Discovery Kingdom, screaming "Jiminy Christmas" as he took a ride on the new Superman roller coaster.
Ping
GO SEAHAWKS
Go, walrus.
If that's the same Harbaugh then he's in the proper environment, doing push-ups with walrusses........Toss him a fish
I-formation, I-formation!
Harbaugh is nuts. Everything is a contest.
Hilarious.
And cute.
:: Who could win in a push-up contest: San Francisco 49ers football coach Jim Harbaugh or a walrus? ::
Who would win a hillbilly-heroin snorting contest, Jim Harbaugh or Jim Irsay?
I saw thatttt that was cute LOL!
Who would win a hillbilly-heroin snorting contest, Jim Harbaugh or Jim Irsay?
Did you hear what happened to Irsay last night?
Got picked up for DUI. Had some prescription drugs in the vehicle also. Some of the pills were in bottles that didn’t match what the actual pills were.
Disclaimer: Above is from memory of story I heard on the radio this afternoon.
That is what I was referencing...
Goo Goo Ga Joob.
That is what I was referencing...
yea. I kinda figured that, right after I hit “Post”.
My son and I were trying to figure out what kind of punishment they’d give him. Gotta make some sort of example out of him, not just for the team’s sake but for the sake of the kids that are Colt’s fans.
Probably nail him with a fine and some low hours of Community Service.
:: Gotta make some sort of example out of him ::
You must be a “Dolts” fan...
I, am not.
“You must be a “Dolts” fan...”
Now, now.
I was a Colt’s fan growing up in Bawlmer. Guess I’ll always be one. No fair weather fan here.
Now that we got rid of the choker, Manning, I think we might actually make a run of it.
He’s a great QB during the regular season. He just can’t bring home the bacon. I’ve known people like that. Just can’t handle the big, big pressure.
omgosh! i just love that guy!
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