5:40PM Sunday
February 24, 2013

Watch out, Jim Harbaugh.

The NFL's competition committee announced that it plans to be more vigilant this season at penalizing coaches who berate officials or leave the sidelines to argue calls. Harbaugh is being referred to as the poster child of this ruling, as the 49ers head coach was seen throwing several rather major tantrums during his team's run to the Super Bowl.

"We need to be much more disciplined about where our coaches go in terms of the box," Ray Anderson, the league's director of football operations, told CBS Sports, "and venturing out on the field beyond traditional markers is something that is just not appropriate. It can interfere and it can be viewed as intimidating, and we really are going to rein that in."

NFL referees already have the power to assess an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty if a coach leaves the designated area on the sideline, but the rule is rarely enforced. Changing this - especially after Harbaugh's very public outbursts during this past postseaso...