Jim Harbaugh Fight: Lions Head Coach Way Too Sensitive After Loss

It's not a pleasant feeling to be a head coach leading an undefeated team on the rise, only to be shocked at home in front of your adoring fans by a perennial bottom-feeder.

Week 6 pitted two teams against each other that have been mocked and disrespected for years: the Detroit Lions and the San Francisco 49ers.

So it's no surprise that when the 49ers defeated the Lions on Sunday, 25-19, and 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh began dancing around, Lions head coach Jim Schwartz took exception.

Perhaps Schwartz was just ornery, perhaps he was overly sensitive at the moment, but the proclaimed "shove" by Harbaugh wasn't a shove at all, but merely a handshake and a pat on the back.

Said Schwartz after the game via ESPN, "I went to congratulate Coach Harbaugh and got shoved out of the way. And then I didn't expect an obscenity at that point, so it was a surprise to me at the end of the game."

Schwartz then said there was a certain "protocol in the league" that Harbaugh apparently violated.

The only thing that Harbaugh violated was Schwartz's nerves. When you coach a franchise that has been perennially rejected by the media and fans alike, you tend to build up a hard shell. So when somebody gives critics yet another reason to blast your team, it's only natural that you will be on edge.

I can see why Schwartz may have gotten upset when Harbaugh began jumping around like a frat member as he came up to meet him in the middle of the field, but to say he was shoved is completely blowing things out of proportion.

The Lions suffered a tough defeat on Sunday, but ultimately it was Schwartz who embarrassed them in the end.