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NFL’s John Harbaugh Calls Foul on Political Partisanship, Immigration Standoff

By Warren Rojas
Posted August 17, 2015 at 12:12pm

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh was nowhere near the Iowa State Fair this weekend, but he still managed to crowbar some political commentary into a preseason presser.  

A line of questioning from reporters on Aug. 15 about Harbaugh’s pitch to have professional referees spend more than just three weekends in August preparing for the regular season veered into the political arena as the NFL play caller took to his soapbox to call out Congress for routinely dropping the ball.  

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