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Jim Harbaugh reunites with a former 'lifesaver'

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Jim Harbaugh had two important questions to ask when he reunited nearly 50 years later with the man who was on the other end of an accident that broke Harbaugh's leg and left him in a cast for six months. First: Did he cry? And second: How was the car?

"He was pumped up that he dented my car," says Dan McGivern, who stars in perhaps the most unlikely chapter to date of the Michigan coach's annual viral string of offseason occurrences.

Harbaugh has told the story before. He was chasing his brother, John, across Benton Street during his family's first week in Iowa City when he was tackled by what he thought until recently was a mail truck.