Wilton Speight Shares Wild Jim Harbaugh Philosophy Story

In Bleacher Report’s article about Shea Patterson being Michigan’s ‘savior’, take a look at this Jim Harbaugh story from Wilton Speight that has been earning some attention:

How do you explain the Harbaugh Experience? Former Michigan (and current UCLA) quarterback Wilton Speight tells a story to sum it up nicely. Early in his Michigan tenure, Harbaugh pulled Speight aside and told him not to eat chicken, a protein that is considered fairly safe by nutritionists. When Speight asked why, Harbaugh said, “because it’s a nervous bird.”

“He thinks some type of sickness injected its way into the human population when people began eating white meats instead of beef and pork,” Speight says. “And he believes it, 100 percent.”