{"id":661451,"date":"2017-04-26T16:52:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=661451"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:52:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:52:26","slug":"jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Harbaugh gifts Pope Francis pair of Air Jordans at St. Peter&#8217;s Square (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan football team continued its tour of Italy on Wednesday, and the mood was a bit more serious than yesterday, when they played an epic game of paintball.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was a bit different, as the team looked on while Pope Francis addressed the crowd at St. Peter&#8217;s Square in Vatican City. <\/p>\n<p>Head coach Jim Harbaugh and his wife got the honor of watching from near the stage, and at one point Harbz even gave the pope a few gifts. He gave him a Michigan football helmet, which was a bit traditional, but also a pair of Air Jordans, which was unexpected. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryRamirezz\/status\/857335130679103488<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jim Harbaugh Just Gifted Pope John Francis The Air Jordan 5 &#39;Michigan PE&#39;! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SJxdujf5eO\">https:\/\/t.co\/SJxdujf5eO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EtSTMSwBwd\">pic.twitter.com\/EtSTMSwBwd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Solely Sneakers (@SolelySneakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolelySneakers\/status\/857293830969806849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jim Harbaugh recalls emotional and beautiful moment meeting Pope Francis <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mQAnu4sOnf\">https:\/\/t.co\/mQAnu4sOnf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kYkXvfOidL\">pic.twitter.com\/kYkXvfOidL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Henschke (@JoshHenschke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshHenschke\/status\/857335623430131713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>All in all, what a day. Harbaugh and his staff have planned quite the trip for the team so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan football team continued its tour of Italy on Wednesday, and the mood was a bit more serious than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":661454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42681,231608556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ncaa","category-the-sports-daily"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jim Harbaugh gifts Pope Francis pair of Air Jordans at St. Peter&#039;s Square (PHOTO) - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jim Harbaugh gifts Pope Francis pair of Air Jordans at St. Peter&#8217;s Square (PHOTO)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-26T20:52:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-26-at-4-48-38-pm.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1420\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"784\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Jim Harbaugh gifts Pope Francis pair of Air Jordans at St. Peter&#8217;s Square (PHOTO)\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-04-26T20:52:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-26T20:52:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\"},\"wordCount\":153,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/screen-shot-2017-04-26-at-4-48-38-pm.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"NCAA\",\"The Sports Daily\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2017\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jim-harbaugh-gifts-pope-francis-pair-of-air-jordans-at-st-peters-square-photo\/\",\"name\":\"Jim Harbaugh gifts Pope Francis pair of Air Jordans at St. Peter's Square (PHOTO) - 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