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Harbaugh denies using F-word in Jay Gruden exchange

Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh admitted that he and Washington Redskins head coach Jay Gruden exchanged words following a skirmish between the teams’ players during Saturday’s preseason match-up. But he has since wanted to make it abundantly clear to those who attempted to infer what he said by reading his lips are way off base.

“For all those lip readers out there that want to write headlines about what was said, there’s more than one word to the English language that begins with F,” Harbaugh said, via ESPN.com. “I really make it a point in life to not use that word as much as possible.