Jim in a van down by the river? Well, an RV
Harbaugh definitely marches to to beat of a different drummer. Been living in a RV until the family joins him from A2
Is "Who's got it better than us?" still a thing?
March 26th, 2024 at 10:35 AM ^
If you haven't read it, here's the story from Harbaugh himself about "Who's got it better than us?".
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/jim-harbaugh-michigan-football-coach-ann-arbor
Harbaugh first dropped the RV idea when he was hired by the Los Angeles Chargers in January, saying he wanted to live in a trailer park down by the water, or near Disneyland. His brother-in-law helped make that dream a reality, driving the RV to Southern California this winter.
How did we not catch that Tom Crean is delivering RVs these days?
This makes me like Tom Crean
March 26th, 2024 at 11:40 AM ^
Well, could also be Sarah's brother
Neighbors with Matt Foley I presume
how could you not put this in the OP
Everyone should live in a trailer for at least six months. You'd be surprised how palatial a modest sized home feels afterward.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:06 AM ^
That and everyone working a retail/service job would reset a lot of perspectives.
March 26th, 2024 at 11:54 AM ^
Amen to that! I got put through the ringer as a server in college. It taught me so much about being a retail/service worker. I teach my children to treat each worker they encounter like they are overworked, underpaid and under-appreciated.
Not just working a retail/service job but having to work a retail/service job. Trading places was a great version of the Prince and the Pauper because Dan Akyrod quickly devolved. It is the lack of resources/desperation that make those jobs/situations suck more than the work itself. (IMHO)
Or work the assembly line at the Rouge Plant for Ford Motor for the summer after your freshman year. You learn that you want a degree and you don’t want the “line”.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:51 AM ^
I lived in a tent for 6 months hiking the PCT, and yep. I remember when finding a picnic table at a rustic campground felt like the height of luxury, so having a couch in a living room? Amazing.
March 26th, 2024 at 12:56 PM ^
I spent 3 months hiking over half the AT, which is a luxury party trail compared to the PCT or CDT. Made me appreciate simple things like clean sheets and dry socks.
It feels to me like the Michigan media still follows Harbaugh a lot more closely than the L.A. media. Maybe that tells us where the Chargers are in the hierarchy of "things L.A. gives a shit about".
Interestingly the article does not mention where Jim's RV was actually parked. I know in coastal Southern California there's certainly a certain sensitivity in many nicer areas regarding people living in RVs (given the nice year-round climate it attracts a lot of drifter types).
Knowing that nutjob, he's probably in the parking lot of the Venice Beach Walmart.
March 26th, 2024 at 11:32 AM ^
Haha. Assuming you're saying "nut job" affectionately. I'll allow it. : ) It's been said by many and often how different he is, so no sense repeating it (though I guest I just did). Most of us find it endearing while it rankles people who despise him. So be it. Love, hate or indifferent, he's not boring.
There’s a long term parking lot by LAX airport where a lot of pilots keep RVs. It’s cheaper than staying in a hotel I suppose. I wouldn’t be surprised if that is where Harbaugh ended up. It’s reasonably close to the chargers new facility and SoFi.
I was out in LA recently, and the amount of homeless people is unimaginable. Tents are under every over pass, and along the roads. Vehicles parked along all empty / open spaces. I asked some friends what the deal was and they said the new laws just allow for them to be anywhere at anytime basically. The wife and I rented a car and drove up the coast, and trucks and RV's parked along the road. I told my wife - if you live in an RV on the side of the road in Maui, are you really homeless????? I can imagine Jim going along and being part of it... people thinking he's some crazy vagrant when he tells them to pull it down and enjoy it... we did that! WE DID THAT!
Between jobs. Couldn't afford an Airbnb.
Do you ever wonder how Jim remains a serious person with millions upon millions of dollars? It's OK because he's our guy, but, still...
March 26th, 2024 at 10:17 AM ^
I think this is the reason. Having fun at home (RV) and keeping a singular focus at work. LA is new to him again.
I used to love having a small place in LA so it forced me to spend so much time outside with friends or building my biz. Fewer things to think about. Harbaugh had his dream of an RV or could have done the AirBnB, he chose the RV.
Now that Greg Roman has a bigger RV close to him and now that his family is arriving to jump into what Harbaugh calls a nicer rental house, he seems ready to move on. His family will help get the house going and he didnt have to.
Despite the normal-seeming interview the other day - He’s still very much the same Jim Harbaugh
March 26th, 2024 at 12:31 PM ^
Not entirely sure this is what Maslow had in mind but I've long felt that Jim Harbaugh has achieved self-actualization.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:02 AM ^
I hope its an Earthroamer at least....
March 26th, 2024 at 10:06 AM ^
Those are sick.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:14 AM ^
I bet Jim challenges Greg to a daily RV drag race that Greg politely declines.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^
He's living his dream of being Dr Gonzo Gates before the wife comes back...
March 26th, 2024 at 10:38 AM ^
He mentioned in his introductory press conference with the Chargers that he wanted to do that and that his inspiration was Jim Rockford from The Rockford Files. For those who are too young, it was a series in which James Garner played an LA private detective who lived in a trailer at the beach.
Same for Riggs in Lethal Weapon. This is actually turning in to a pretty good track record...
Assuming Jim's is much nicer.
March 26th, 2024 at 10:38 AM ^
So, if I read correctly, Tom Crean drove his RV to California?
March 26th, 2024 at 10:47 AM ^
Correct. And he comes back once Jim tells him the shitters full
March 26th, 2024 at 10:57 AM ^
I highly recommend getting an RV from a Raper
March 26th, 2024 at 11:18 AM ^
I knew they were overpriced but I had no idea.
March 26th, 2024 at 11:19 AM ^
I mean, it is LA. This is basically what middle class living here looks like, and Jim has always been a man of the people
March 26th, 2024 at 12:08 PM ^
This is not a surprise. When he was growing up, Harbaugh watched network TV dramas. He was a Rockford Files TV show fan. In the popular NBC program featuring James Garner as a private detective, his character Jim Rockford lived in a trailer by the beach. He drove a muscle car and lived by the beach. Harbaugh thought this was cool.
So, when he was hired by the Chargers, he was interviewed and asked whether he might want to pursue a Rockford Files lifestyle at the beach. That planted a seed.
Now, today there are some really swanky RV's. I actually spent some useless time recently looking at a zoom video tour of a brand new 3 BR, 2 bath, two story RV near the Mississippi coastline.
The trailsr in Rockford Files wasn't really cool, but if you can live by the beach in California, well, that might be cool enough. Harbaugh is nothing if not a product of his environment and goofy thoughts.
So, while transitioning to new his job while his wife is still packing the family up for a new chapter in California, Harbaugh is reliving the halcyon years of his youth recreating a bygone era of trailer life that never was. And it's cool. Jim Rockford was cool.
Yeah, Jim (Rockford's) trailer was on the beach in Malibu. I don't think those uber-wealthy folks are allowing any trailers or RVs, regardless of how nice Harbaugh's might be, anywhere close to them these days.
Still, I hope Harbaugh is having fun. It is neat to see someone actually follow-up on a goofy & harmless, once-in-a-lifetime idea.
March 26th, 2024 at 12:10 PM ^
I had seen the headline but hadn't read the article. Glad I read it now. Thanks for posting.
March 26th, 2024 at 12:29 PM ^
Found Him!
I didn’t know how much I had in common with Jim! My wife and I lived in our 26-foot, no-slide fifth wheel for two months the summer we moved back to Michigan, including the first two weeks of the school year after I secured a teaching position but we hadn’t yet found a bricks-and-sticks home to move into.
Damn Jim, I only live like 4 blocks from the Chargers facility. You can just bum on my couch, man.
That "stain" you cant get out of the middle cushion means Jim Harbaugh is your Daddy.
Apparently a big coaster aficionado too. Pic texted to me by my brother earlier today.
he's probably just doing it over and over and over.... trying to break the record for most rides in 24 hours
Does he have his chickens with him?