U-M's Harbaugh loves Darth Vader: 'He's a jackhammer'

Like thousands of other Americans, Jim Harbaugh spent his Thursday night trying to catch "Star Wars" on opening night.

The Michigan football coach took his two sons, Jay, U-M's tight ends coach, and James, a U-M freshman, to the midnight show and enjoyed it -- with one notable exception.

This was the first of the seven Star Wars movies that didn't feature Darth Vader or Anakin Skywalker, Vader's previous form. That disappointed Harbaugh.

"That’s my guy, that’s my boy," Harbaugh told WXYZ-TV's Brad Galli for their "Inside the Huddle" interview tonight. "Because I love him. I love Darth Vader. He’s just relentless, he’s a jackhammer. James Earl Jones, the voice of God. You would be disappointed if God did not have a better or equal voice to James Earl Jones."

Overall, Harbaugh gave the movie a high score.

"I was impressed, this was a good Star Wars," he said. "But (without Darth Vader), not quite the same. I thought they would have found some way to get him back in there. He had a good run. They had the one shot of the new … I don’t want to give anything away."

Contact Mark Snyder at msnyder@freepress.com . Follow him on Twitter at @mark__snyder.

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