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Jacobs’ hatred of Harbaugh still burns in nasty radio rant

Brandon Jacobs has retired, but that doesn’t mean he has stopped delivering punishment.

The former bruising Giants running back made it clear Thursday he has no use for 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh. Jacobs spent one unhappy and unproductive season in 2012 playing – mostly sitting – for Harbaugh and the 49ers before closing out his career in 2013 where he started, with the Giants.

“I have two rings and he don’t,’’ Jacobs said of Harbaugh on WFAN’s “Boomer & Carton Show.” “He’s a bitch. It’s not that he was a bitch, he is a bitch and that’s why he hasn’t won anything.’’

Jacobs, 31, played nine years in the NFL, the first seven with the Giants, earning two Super Bowl rings. As a free agent heading into the 2012 season, he opted to eschew the Giants’ offer to take slightly more money from the 49ers, which seemed like a good fit. The 49ers had just lost in overtime to the Giants in the NFC Championship Game, were a team on the rise and Jacobs looked to be a complement to running back Frank Gore and a veteran addition with championship pedigree.

It never worked out. Jacobs’ knee was an issue from the start, and when he became healthy he barely got on the field — five rushing attempts for seven yards in two games. He angered Harbaugh and the 49ers by using Twitter and Instagram to express his longing for the Giants and to complain he was “on the team rotting away.’’ Jacobs asked for his release, which was not granted. Harbaugh eventually suspended Jacobs for the final three games.

“I have one regret in my career and that’s going to the 49ers when I could have stayed in New York,’’ Jacobs said. “I just wanted to see what stuff was like with another team, and it didn’t work out for me. I wasn’t liked, to be honest with you. … I thought I was being held hostage because of the previous year. I got two rings, Harbaugh’s a bitch, so it doesn’t matter.’’

Asked why he felt the 49ers signed him in the first place, Jacobs said: “I have no idea whatsoever, and they didn’t want to release me when I kept going to them with pure respect, which I usually don’t have when I’m pissed off. I kept it respectful the whole time. They just felt we really can’t use him, let’s try to suspend him. I tell you what, I got my money back and playoff and Super Bowl money. Everything. For two years in a row, I got everything.’’

Jacobs returned to the Giants after the first game of the 2013 season and had 58 rushing attempts for 238 yards and four touchdowns. His throwback moment came in Chicago on Oct. 10, when he started in place of injured David Wilson and ran carried the ball 22 times for 106 yards and two touchdowns in a loss to the Bears. Jacobs played in only two of the last 10 games because of knee and hamstring issues. He underwent knee surgery following the season and decided to retire.

“My body, man, it wasn’t responding the same any more: I’d get hurt, then I’d try to come back and play and then I get hurt again, then the hamstring started, the knee started, everything went downhill,’’ Jacobs said. “I really fought hard to get back out there, but my body just didn’t respond to injuries like it used to do. That’s when I knew it was time to call it.’’