Jim Harbaugh Narrates Chargers' Locker Room Quote in Epic Video to Hype NFL Season

Jim Harbaugh sure knows how to welcome a new team to a new season.

The Los Angeles Chargers head coach opened up his first training camp back in the NFL by narrating a quote that is hanging in the locker room.

"We predict those who stay will be champions," he said in something of a nod to his previous coaching job since the Michigan Wolverines famously say "those who stay will be champions."

Here is the full quote that can be seen at the end of the video:

"Welcome to the 2024 Chargers locker room, your football home.

"We want to compliment all who have earned the opportunity to get here and recognize the journey traveled to now be playing at the highest level of football.

"None here were born on third base, but rather had to work their way to first, then second, then third.

"Congratulations on taking your life circumstances and turning them into success.

"By your talent and effort you will be known.

"We predict that those who stay will be champions. And those who produce will stay.

"A piece of advice if I may: Treat others as you would want to be treated. Any respect you give will be returned and then some, I've noticed.

"We are all now on third base, together, poised to bring it home."

Michigan fans will surely notice another part of Harbaugh's narration and quote.

The head coach saying that "none here were born on third base" evokes his previous criticism of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day. When Harbaugh was still with the Wolverines, he famously said of Day that some people "standing on third base, think they hit a triple."

Day did not have any head coaching experience when he took over the Buckeyes starting with the 2019 season. He inherited a program that was seemingly operating on all cylinders following Urban Meyer's seven years at the helm.

Meyer went 83-9 overall and 7-0 against Michigan during his tenure. He also won a national championship with the Buckeyes, which was the third of his college football coaching career.

While Day has kept Ohio State among the country's best, he has not won a national title. He also hasn't won a Big Ten championship since the 2020 campaign, and, most notably when it comes to any rivalry with Harbaugh, has seen the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry switch under his watch.

The Buckeyes lost The Game just twice from 2001 until 2021, when the Wolverines won their first of three straight. Michigan also won the Big Ten in each of the last three seasons and enter the 2024 campaign as reigning College Football Playoff national champions.

Perhaps things will once again swing in Ohio State's favor with Harbaugh now in the NFL, but the former Michigan coach clearly couldn't miss an opportunity to get one more dig in before starting a new season with the Chargers.

Los Angeles fans will likely delight in having a coach who isn't afraid to mix it up with his rivals, as the team has to deal with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West.

Kansas City has won back-to-back Super Bowls and three of the last five Lombardi Trophies. It is the gold standard of the NFL with one of the best quarterbacks in league history under center and still just 28 years old.

It will be up to Harbaugh, Justin Herbert and Co. to turn things around in the division if the Chargers are going to become champions like the coach predicted in his quote.

Fortunately for Los Angeles, he has a history of turning rivalries around.