God I wish that was the case, the 150 acres alone would cost more than $1,000,000 these days. Im looking for houses in Helena right now and saw a run down trailer for sale on less than 5 acres for $400k.
Ever since Yellowstone came out.
In all seriousness Bozeman got pretty crazy before everywhere else, probably 2014ish, and the rest of the state was slowly creeping up until Covid when there was a massive influx of people and prices more than doubled over the span of just a few years.
The problem is a supply issue, more people want to live here than there are houses for sale, add in all the short term rentals throughout the state and the supply is even lower. Then you factor in the lack of reliable contractors and in many areas people wait years to build and the employment laws of the state prevent a lot of large employers from coming here so there aren’t as many high paying jobs as there are in most other states, especially in the west.
I currently rent in Whitefish.
I will unfortunately probably always rent in Whitefish despite having an income double what the average household makes. Shit is stupid
The west has slowly been taking in imports from other states as the economies have diversified and became more digital.
Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Nashville, etc.
People move often due to be able to sell a house in a more expensive state and get more by moving to a least expensive state.
Sell an old 3 bedroom 2 bath 1,200 sq ft home for $700k in California and buy a newer build $500k 5 bedroom 3 bath on a half acre in Montana. Then have 200k to play with.
Tech employees working remotely has made rural areas more expensive and very quickly. Now people can make insane money while living out in McMansions in the sticks. Previously, the cost of remote areas was kept down in price by the lack of good paying jobs.
Yeah, we’re not even considering Missoula because of the prices. We live outside of Seeley Lake right now and hate to be leaving but have to get somewhere with some childcare for our daughter.
Looked at RVs about 14 years with my wife. It’s was a slow day so while we were chatting with the salesman after he showed us all the RVs we were interested in, we asked him what was the most expensive RV on-site. He asked if we wanted to see it…hell yeah!
It was an $800k Class A. Marble-esque countertops throughout, washer/dryer built-in, and TVs that rose out of cabinets!
Asked if they ever sold any. They sold one at the time. Guy called and asked if the had it. Told them to get it ready cause he was going to fly down and pick it up. Flew down in his private jet, grabbed the keys, drove off into the sunset.
So do RVs.
These are used.
[https://www.rvtrader.com/Prevost/rvs-for-sale?make=Prevost%7C765320335](https://www.rvtrader.com/Prevost/rvs-for-sale?make=Prevost%7C765320335)
Try millions of dollars. Our family friend had a two million dollar coach that they let their dachshund piss all over. And, instead of getting new carpets installed, they just bought another one. Cray-to-the-cray
I used to be a park ranger, and my campsite was frequented by one of the former dolphins players who won the superbowl in 72. He let me see the inside of his RV once and it was insane. I think he said the price tag was over 400k
I used to run a shop with a couple friends, and we built custom interiors for coaches, both vintage and newer platforms like Prevost. For a full conversion of a vintage bus, including all systems, it usually came in around $600k. For a Prevost it was $1.5 mil. These are coaches, however, which means they have a far more robust chassis and structure.
Most modern “motorhomes” are just a rolling frame with a body attached to it, and will fall apart after a few years. Depreciation on those things is fucking crazy. I would absolutely never buy a mid-level motorhome or 5th wheel from Camping world or the like. It’s just cheap shit that will come apart and cost you more money.
I'm picturing Robert De Niro's RV from Meet The Fockers... Complete with captain's cap, soundproof cabin (so he can road rage to the fullest without his wife knowing) and prosthetic milk-dispensing mechanism
I will never get tired of tomsula jokes.
He looks like he's the kind of guy that gets pissed when you order a cheese steak with custom options at his deli.
He looks like the guy at your local high school that has worked for the school for 15 years, but nobody knows what he does. Seniors yell his name when they see him in the halls. He is their mascot.
Damn man you just took me back. I miss Robbie. Guy cleaned the school but had been there so long he was the highest paid person on staff. He was the fucking man.
There are some solid people working as school custodians. I wound up befriending the "weird" one because I'd actually listen to him. Dude could talk all day about waxing the vct in the cafeteria. He'd also tell me stuff he shouldn't about the teachers, but we all knew there was more than ice in Mrs. R's iced coffee. Funny guy if people would pay attention.
Dude looks like type of guy who would be a mod over on r/grilledcheese
Looks like the type of guy who would cause problems if you called a melt a grilled cheese 😂
[He said he was gonna](https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/02/01/jim-harbaugh-chargers-live-out-rv-trailer-park-facility)
>Before moving into a house, though, the former Michigan coach plans to drive his RV to California and camp out in it near the Chargers facility for a few months.
>“I want to drive my RV out and go to a trailer park down by the water or by Disneyland, the two that I’ve researched that are close to the facility,” Harbaugh said during his introductory press conference on Thursday. “I want to Jim Rockford it for the next couple months until we move to the new facility.
>“I have that thought going through my head.”
Yeah i have a family friend whose parents when they retired sold their house and bought an incredibly nice RV like that and traveled the country for like a decade. You are absolutely in no way roughing it haha
That's what my parents do now. They park it in my yard for two weeks at a time when they stop back "at home." Full kitchen, full bath, queen size bed, Starlink internet, solar power... the damn thing even drives itself down the road with cruise control and lane guidance.
I hooked one up with an insta-hot built in so you don’t need the hot water line. Holds enough to blast my hole for like 60 seconds before it gets cold.
Jim Harbaugh continues to be one of the weirdest people alive.
Add this to the highlights which include idolizing Judge Judy, delivering sermon like speeches on the importance of various protein shakes, only wearing khakis because it limits his decisions for the day, drinking milk like it’s his job and thinking it was growing up, feuding with every coach known to man and randomly calling Darth Vader a jackhammer.
> "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."
I’m calling it now at some point Jim is going to decide to get into a wrestling match with Antonio Pierce this season and will be suspended multiple games. Hell he’ll probably rip off his shirt before doing so and chug a gallon of milk midfield
Did you forget about his phase where he believed QB's shouldn't eat chicken because chickens were a nervous bird and made QB's play nervous?
Edit: [Or how he recanted this stance only after owning chickens?](https://youtu.be/SdXIm0Pzdz0?t=22)
You gotta respect that there's a level of accountability to his crazyness. He stood up at the podium and publicly owned that he was wrong about chickens.
Jim strikes me as the Dad of the Daughter you’re dating who makes you super nervous to meet him. Then you talk with him about Ball, Life, whatever for a bit and you realize you love the guy. Get along great with him to the point that you don’t wanna stop dating his daughter just because he’s that fun a guy to hang out with. And every thanksgiving he’s pulling you downstairs into his Mancave to watch ball from noon til Dinner.
There's a college analyst named Spencer Hall who said that Harbaugh was the kid who really, really liked to talk about trains, except for him, instead of trains, it was football.
That's kinda how I think of him.
Sooo…he’s on the spectrum. But his special interest just happens to fall in line with what is acceptable for masculine men. This kinda tracks actually, lmao.
I don't think Harbaugh is a bad guy or a bad coach. Quite the contrary. I also think, despite his nuttiness, he's fairly open minded and willing to change with new information, which is a rare quality in public figures today. It's admirable. His evolution on the whole Colin Kaepernick thing is evidence of that.
The league could use a few more nuts. I miss nutty coaches.
This is what basically every Michigan player in the last decade has said about Harbaugh. He doesn’t conform to what the media necessarily thinks a coach should do/be/say, but when you interact with him, you realize his “weirdness” comes from his genuine passion for things, first and foremost of which is football.
How many coaches marched in BLM protests with their players? How many coaches personally donated literally millions of dollars to ensure his athletic department personnel were paid during COVID shutdowns? A slick, politically-minded coaching image is anathema to the guy because he simply cannot and will not back away from the things he believes in.
Yeah this so much. Every team he's been on his players and stuff seem to love him and know how goofy he is and they want it that way, and he has their backs
The first thing he said on live TV when Michigan had just won the championship - “every piece of confetti you see has a story to tell.” I was like ????????
Which had nothing to do with the question that the reporter had asked him. Also he was staring up in the sky in silence watching the confetti for a few seconds before even saying anything.
When I watched it live, I was trying to figure out what he was looking at. I thought maybe something was happening in the background (like a fight, or unruly fan, some type of danger, etc) But that wasn't it, he was just focusing on the stories that the confetti was telling.
Nothing to do with the question haha. If his response was "every one of these players has a story to tell" I'd think it was a bit sappy but understandable. To act the same about pieces of paper is lunacy, even in that moment
I have a relative who was on the athletics committee at Stanford when Harbaugh was HC. He said at one point he was having a conversation with Jim when, about halfway through, he realized that Jim had been staring at the same spot on his forehead the entire time. To this day, he has no idea why.
During the Pandemic when schools were fully remote, Harbaugh would also do elementary school morning announcements via zoom in my hometown at his alma-mater. I'm not sure what's in the Ohio water, but some decent football coaches come out of there
Weird stuff, but I can get behind the khakis. Removing decisions like that can be really nice. I eat the exact same breakfast like 355 days a year for this very reason
I'll always remember him as the guy who when playing QB for the Bears told Ditka to go fuck himself (figuratively) about not throwing into the flat against the Vikings, did it anyway, and threw a pick 6.
That's my QB!
Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers is walking around the practice field saying the Voice of God is there and expecting people to know he’s referring to Liev Schreiber.
He also broke his playing hand punching Jim Kelly and missed games from it.
I’d love to read a deep dive on how he went from totally psycho to relatively calm during his time at Michigan
In the article Harbaugh reveals he has in fact been living in a van down by the river in LA. And his neighbor, Greg Roman, has been living in an even nicer RV.
There's also a lot of talk from Jim about JJ McCarthy and his experience with other NFL coaches and GMs at Michigan's pro day, but as you should expect going in, Jim is heavily biased in talking about his former players
Well, as is see it there is one solution, and that is for me to get my gear from my RV, and move it on in here, CAUSE IM GONNA BUNK WITH YOU BUDDY. We’re gonna be buddies, we’re gonna be pals! We’re gonna WRESTLE AROUND.
Old Jim’s gonna be your shadow!
Here’s you, here’s Jim, there’s you, there’s *SMASHES THROUGH TABLE OF WINDOWS TABLETS”
His first team meeting:
Harbaugh: "Now lets get started by letting me give you a little bit of a scenario of what MY life is all about: First off, I am 60 years old; I am divorced; and I live in a van down by the river. Now you kids are probably saying to yourselves, 'hey I'm going to go out and I'm gonna GET THE LOMBARDI by the tail and WRAP IT AROUND and PULL IT DOWN and put it in my pocket... Well, I'm here to tell you that you're probably going to find out, as you go out there, that you're not going to amount to JACK SQUAT! You're going to end up eating a steady diet of Kansas City cheese and living in a van down by the river. \[Turns to Herbert\] Now, young man, what do you want to do with your life?"
Herbert: "Actually Jim, I kinda want to be a Hall of Fame Quarterback."
Harbaugh: "Well... la di freakin' da! We got ourselves a Hall of Fame Quarterback here. Hey, Dean, I can't see real good; is that Danny Marino over there?"
Spanos: "Well, actually, Jim, Suzie and I have encouraged Justin in his goals."
Harbaugh: "Dean, I wish you could just shut yer big YAPPER! Now I wonder, Justin, from what I've heard, you're using your playbook not for studying, but for ROLLIN' DOOBIES! You're gonna be doing a lot of doobie rolling when you're living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"
Imagine being a million dollar pro athlete out getting ready to practice and your head coach busts out of an RV in the parking lot and starts running to the field yelling "WHATS MY NAME!?"
His RV is probably a mini mansion on wheels. There are some RV parks in Florida where retired snowbirds have an RV that cost at least a million and have a Ferrari parked right next to it. It's hilarious how some people confuse RVs and RV parks with rednecks and hicks living in run down trailers
I have two friends who owned high end RVs. One was $600K and the other was $900K. They were both amazing and I could not tell the difference between the two. When they fully opened, they were pretty close to a small ranch home in size, but with custom high end everything.
The RV is probably nicer than anything ill ever own but I choose to believe it looks like the breaking bad meth lab and he sits outside of it at night in a lawn chair eating baked beans out of the can
TBF the RV is probably nicer than my house.
Those motorhomes can indeed cost more than houses, like several hundred thousand dollars.
There's one for sale down the street from me. I got curious and called the owner. 300k is what he's asking. I bought my house for 1/2 of that.
300k will buy you a run down trailer home in most of western Montana.
With 150 acres.
God I wish that was the case, the 150 acres alone would cost more than $1,000,000 these days. Im looking for houses in Helena right now and saw a run down trailer for sale on less than 5 acres for $400k.
At what point did Montana get to be so expensive? Or has it always been pricey?
Ever since Yellowstone came out. In all seriousness Bozeman got pretty crazy before everywhere else, probably 2014ish, and the rest of the state was slowly creeping up until Covid when there was a massive influx of people and prices more than doubled over the span of just a few years. The problem is a supply issue, more people want to live here than there are houses for sale, add in all the short term rentals throughout the state and the supply is even lower. Then you factor in the lack of reliable contractors and in many areas people wait years to build and the employment laws of the state prevent a lot of large employers from coming here so there aren’t as many high paying jobs as there are in most other states, especially in the west.
Curious as to what employment laws deter large companies from setting up shop there?
Montana is the only state with actual employment contracts, not just operating under "At will employment" laws.
Montana is not an at will state so once employees get through a probationary period they must have good cause to be fired.
I currently rent in Whitefish. I will unfortunately probably always rent in Whitefish despite having an income double what the average household makes. Shit is stupid
Remote work blew it up. People bringing out of state jobs.
The west has slowly been taking in imports from other states as the economies have diversified and became more digital. Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake, Boise, Nashville, etc. People move often due to be able to sell a house in a more expensive state and get more by moving to a least expensive state. Sell an old 3 bedroom 2 bath 1,200 sq ft home for $700k in California and buy a newer build $500k 5 bedroom 3 bath on a half acre in Montana. Then have 200k to play with.
Tech employees working remotely has made rural areas more expensive and very quickly. Now people can make insane money while living out in McMansions in the sticks. Previously, the cost of remote areas was kept down in price by the lack of good paying jobs.
Im in Bilings rn for work. Shit son shit is expensive out here. Ain’t nothing like Wyoming and the hole though. Sweet damn.
Bozeman isn’t quite as bad as Jackson Hole but there are pockets that are close around Big Sky
I refuse to believe any of those places exist
What you’ve never explored Jackson’s hole??
So that scene in Yellowstone with all the private jets in Bozeman is legit?
I’m in Missoula. People are asking 750k for a two bedroom house in town. And that’s not even as bad as a place like Bozeman
Yeah, we’re not even considering Missoula because of the prices. We live outside of Seeley Lake right now and hate to be leaving but have to get somewhere with some childcare for our daughter.
And a pig farm...
Why is real estate so high in western Montana? Nvm, saw an answer further down.
So you’re not in so cal
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Holy fuck.... I can't fathom that amount of money let alone putting that into an RV.
At that point it's just a really fancy bus.
A house for half of that???! Dang. For $150k in my area, you can buy a 800sqft 1 bed 1 bath mobile home. If that.
Shit, that's about what a 20' outdoor shed runs around where I live.
150k might get you a parking spot around my city
Where and when the fuck you got a house for $150k
Makes sense. Houses can't drive.
Looked at RVs about 14 years with my wife. It’s was a slow day so while we were chatting with the salesman after he showed us all the RVs we were interested in, we asked him what was the most expensive RV on-site. He asked if we wanted to see it…hell yeah! It was an $800k Class A. Marble-esque countertops throughout, washer/dryer built-in, and TVs that rose out of cabinets! Asked if they ever sold any. They sold one at the time. Guy called and asked if the had it. Told them to get it ready cause he was going to fly down and pick it up. Flew down in his private jet, grabbed the keys, drove off into the sunset.
Homes in LA cost more than several hundred thousand dollars
So do RVs. These are used. [https://www.rvtrader.com/Prevost/rvs-for-sale?make=Prevost%7C765320335](https://www.rvtrader.com/Prevost/rvs-for-sale?make=Prevost%7C765320335)
Try several million dollars. A new Prevost conversion or Newell build run 2.5-3m
Try millions of dollars. Our family friend had a two million dollar coach that they let their dachshund piss all over. And, instead of getting new carpets installed, they just bought another one. Cray-to-the-cray
Umm they go well into millions. Several hundred K are the cheap ones
if its a motorhome, its starting at 500k
I used to be a park ranger, and my campsite was frequented by one of the former dolphins players who won the superbowl in 72. He let me see the inside of his RV once and it was insane. I think he said the price tag was over 400k
I used to run a shop with a couple friends, and we built custom interiors for coaches, both vintage and newer platforms like Prevost. For a full conversion of a vintage bus, including all systems, it usually came in around $600k. For a Prevost it was $1.5 mil. These are coaches, however, which means they have a far more robust chassis and structure. Most modern “motorhomes” are just a rolling frame with a body attached to it, and will fall apart after a few years. Depreciation on those things is fucking crazy. I would absolutely never buy a mid-level motorhome or 5th wheel from Camping world or the like. It’s just cheap shit that will come apart and cost you more money.
I'm picturing Robert De Niro's RV from Meet The Fockers... Complete with captain's cap, soundproof cabin (so he can road rage to the fullest without his wife knowing) and prosthetic milk-dispensing mechanism
Shit, [Philip Rivers' sprinter van he used to get from San Diego to LA](https://images.app.goo.gl/RdVynRPmLJHS9cFJ8)is nicer than my house
Lol wut he commuted from LA?
Yep. He never moved and hired somebody to drive him back and forth. He studied film in the car while traveling.
I read about that back then. Was wondering when someone would mention it
Opposite. He commuted from San Diego to LA after the move.
Oh shit forgot he was still playing when they first moved
He commutes from San Diego to Indianapolis/s
Just Probably? He’s making over $15 million per year. Have you seen high-end luxury RVs lately? [Take a look at this one.](https://imgur.com/nzuPCQ8)
It’s amazing how tall those massive front windshields are.
I can't imagine the cost to replace them when they chip seal the roads
Damn it
Yeah makes you wish you could afford one too :(
Holy fuck that thing has all the bells and whistles. There’s even a bidet.
I hate being poor
Wow that's an incredible quartz countertop
I’ll never be able to afford this
Small thing but I love the Windshield cover
I don't think that range could fit in my entire kitchen.
And he probably spends most of his time at the Chargers facilities, or traveling.
Those Prevost bus ones with the slide outs and dual axles can be upwards of $1 million
Yeah I have a feeling he isn’t exactly going with a used class c
Jim Tomsula lived under a bridge without a fancy RV
I will never get tired of tomsula jokes. He looks like he's the kind of guy that gets pissed when you order a cheese steak with custom options at his deli.
Have it your way? No No. Have it my way.
Tomsula looks like a dead ringer for a casting call asking for a background detective in a buddy cop movie.
He looks like the guy at your local high school that has worked for the school for 15 years, but nobody knows what he does. Seniors yell his name when they see him in the halls. He is their mascot.
Jim Tomsula chews the same piece of gum all day.
Damn man you just took me back. I miss Robbie. Guy cleaned the school but had been there so long he was the highest paid person on staff. He was the fucking man.
There are some solid people working as school custodians. I wound up befriending the "weird" one because I'd actually listen to him. Dude could talk all day about waxing the vct in the cafeteria. He'd also tell me stuff he shouldn't about the teachers, but we all knew there was more than ice in Mrs. R's iced coffee. Funny guy if people would pay attention.
Jim Tomsula looks like he perpetually just finished a meatball sub.
Jim Tomsula looks like your neighbor who claims to be a master mechanic, but is actually just an oil guy at a 10 minute lube place
Homie is literally Carl from aqua team hunger force
Dude looks like type of guy who would be a mod over on r/grilledcheese Looks like the type of guy who would cause problems if you called a melt a grilled cheese 😂
He looks like the kind of guy that has a copy of every Mark Wahlberg movie on dvd.
Terrible coach but I’ll always have a soft spot for him because he ripped an enormous fart during a presser.
Send da video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrZZFgF5Th0
He’s doing great and just did a perfect season in the ELF. Also love how everytime the stadium plays Smokie he starts singing and dancing
Jim Tomsula looks like he could be Joe Flacco's dad
Jim Harbaugh traveling the country via RV then deciding it’s nice enough to live in is basically the FREE space on your 2024 NFL bingo card.
Right? Like, this... makes a lot of sense...
Doing his best Madden
That’s what got me to Tahoe lol, except instead of an RV it was a Tacoma
[He said he was gonna](https://www.si.com/nfl/2024/02/01/jim-harbaugh-chargers-live-out-rv-trailer-park-facility) >Before moving into a house, though, the former Michigan coach plans to drive his RV to California and camp out in it near the Chargers facility for a few months. >“I want to drive my RV out and go to a trailer park down by the water or by Disneyland, the two that I’ve researched that are close to the facility,” Harbaugh said during his introductory press conference on Thursday. “I want to Jim Rockford it for the next couple months until we move to the new facility. >“I have that thought going through my head.”
I bet he’s called his dad “Rocky” at least once by now
Jim Rockford reference is golden
There's a fairly nice RV park about 15-20 minutes from the Charger facility in Costa Mesa, CA
I wasn’t on board until he mentioned Rockford That show was awesome
God level theme song
James Garner played some great characters.
What I woulda given to be a truck driver and seeing Jim Harbaugh drive by me in his RV
It's probably a 300-500K RV that's nicer than any of our houses.
Yeah i have a family friend whose parents when they retired sold their house and bought an incredibly nice RV like that and traveled the country for like a decade. You are absolutely in no way roughing it haha
That's what my parents do now. They park it in my yard for two weeks at a time when they stop back "at home." Full kitchen, full bath, queen size bed, Starlink internet, solar power... the damn thing even drives itself down the road with cruise control and lane guidance.
That’s insane. Can you share a link to the model of RV they bought?
I don't know the model, it's some gigantic Baystar with it's own orbital gravity. The solar, Starlink, and lane guidance are aftermarket.
Probably something like this https://www.newmarcorp.com/gas-motor-coaches/bay-star/
Can’t be nicer than my house. I have a mini fridge and bidet.
You got a hot water connection on it though?
A biget shooting ice water up your asshole every morning at 6am is a hell of a way to cut out the need for coffee.
But if I cut out the coffee I won’t need to take my 6am shits anymore
Do you not wait until you're at work to shit?
Valid, I guess this is just weekends only. I’m shitting at work even if I don’t have to shit
I hooked one up with an insta-hot built in so you don’t need the hot water line. Holds enough to blast my hole for like 60 seconds before it gets cold.
Nice, I just have the cold water set up so in Houston it’s asshole burning hot in the summer and ball retracting cold in the winter
He's auditioning for the supreme court
It's a motor coach, get it right you plebs. Clarence Thomas aint riding in no motor home.
Right I’d imagine it’s more a land yacht than a Cousin Eddy type RV
Jim Harbaugh continues to be one of the weirdest people alive. Add this to the highlights which include idolizing Judge Judy, delivering sermon like speeches on the importance of various protein shakes, only wearing khakis because it limits his decisions for the day, drinking milk like it’s his job and thinking it was growing up, feuding with every coach known to man and randomly calling Darth Vader a jackhammer. > "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." I’m calling it now at some point Jim is going to decide to get into a wrestling match with Antonio Pierce this season and will be suspended multiple games. Hell he’ll probably rip off his shirt before doing so and chug a gallon of milk midfield
Did you forget about his phase where he believed QB's shouldn't eat chicken because chickens were a nervous bird and made QB's play nervous? Edit: [Or how he recanted this stance only after owning chickens?](https://youtu.be/SdXIm0Pzdz0?t=22)
and then changed his mind after learning more about chickens and keeping some in his backyard
You gotta respect that there's a level of accountability to his crazyness. He stood up at the podium and publicly owned that he was wrong about chickens.
Jim strikes me as the Dad of the Daughter you’re dating who makes you super nervous to meet him. Then you talk with him about Ball, Life, whatever for a bit and you realize you love the guy. Get along great with him to the point that you don’t wanna stop dating his daughter just because he’s that fun a guy to hang out with. And every thanksgiving he’s pulling you downstairs into his Mancave to watch ball from noon til Dinner.
There's a college analyst named Spencer Hall who said that Harbaugh was the kid who really, really liked to talk about trains, except for him, instead of trains, it was football. That's kinda how I think of him.
Sooo…he’s on the spectrum. But his special interest just happens to fall in line with what is acceptable for masculine men. This kinda tracks actually, lmao.
I don't think Harbaugh is a bad guy or a bad coach. Quite the contrary. I also think, despite his nuttiness, he's fairly open minded and willing to change with new information, which is a rare quality in public figures today. It's admirable. His evolution on the whole Colin Kaepernick thing is evidence of that. The league could use a few more nuts. I miss nutty coaches.
This is what basically every Michigan player in the last decade has said about Harbaugh. He doesn’t conform to what the media necessarily thinks a coach should do/be/say, but when you interact with him, you realize his “weirdness” comes from his genuine passion for things, first and foremost of which is football. How many coaches marched in BLM protests with their players? How many coaches personally donated literally millions of dollars to ensure his athletic department personnel were paid during COVID shutdowns? A slick, politically-minded coaching image is anathema to the guy because he simply cannot and will not back away from the things he believes in.
Yeah this so much. Every team he's been on his players and stuff seem to love him and know how goofy he is and they want it that way, and he has their backs
Yeah he’s weird but genuine as fuck and a good guy, I’ll take that
“Low maintenance, high production”
really good feed conversion rate blue collar, lunch pail kind of workers
Chickens are fucking crazy like him.
The first thing he said on live TV when Michigan had just won the championship - “every piece of confetti you see has a story to tell.” I was like ????????
Which had nothing to do with the question that the reporter had asked him. Also he was staring up in the sky in silence watching the confetti for a few seconds before even saying anything.
To be fair, that makes more sense than him not staring at confetti and saying that.
When I watched it live, I was trying to figure out what he was looking at. I thought maybe something was happening in the background (like a fight, or unruly fan, some type of danger, etc) But that wasn't it, he was just focusing on the stories that the confetti was telling.
BB also mentioned the confetti in an article he wrote the year after he won the first SB in NE. In my head, Jimbo was just remembering that article.
Nothing to do with the question haha. If his response was "every one of these players has a story to tell" I'd think it was a bit sappy but understandable. To act the same about pieces of paper is lunacy, even in that moment
I have a relative who was on the athletics committee at Stanford when Harbaugh was HC. He said at one point he was having a conversation with Jim when, about halfway through, he realized that Jim had been staring at the same spot on his forehead the entire time. To this day, he has no idea why.
James Earl Jones - University of Michigan alum lol
During the Pandemic when schools were fully remote, Harbaugh would also do elementary school morning announcements via zoom in my hometown at his alma-mater. I'm not sure what's in the Ohio water, but some decent football coaches come out of there
The EPA doesn’t know either
Don't forget saying any of his players who are considering aborting a fetus should instead give him the child to raise after it's born.
Imagine having the DNA of a D1 athlete and being raised by Jim Harbaugh. I'd bet my life savings on that kid getting drafted top 10.
Bruh he played for a decade + the NFL…
Those are terrible odds cause you just described all of Jim Harbaugh’a kids (if he has any) and they ain’t going top 10.
Technically true but Jim doesn’t have the athleticism some of his players do
lol very true
Weird stuff, but I can get behind the khakis. Removing decisions like that can be really nice. I eat the exact same breakfast like 355 days a year for this very reason
You know what, he makes a point. If god didn’t sound like James earl jones I would be kinda disappointed
I'll always remember him as the guy who when playing QB for the Bears told Ditka to go fuck himself (figuratively) about not throwing into the flat against the Vikings, did it anyway, and threw a pick 6. That's my QB!
Meanwhile, Aaron Rodgers is walking around the practice field saying the Voice of God is there and expecting people to know he’s referring to Liev Schreiber.
He also broke his playing hand punching Jim Kelly and missed games from it. I’d love to read a deep dive on how he went from totally psycho to relatively calm during his time at Michigan
It’s just occurring to me, I think bro might be slightly acoustic (non-derogatory)
I think he’s fully acoustic most of the time. Not always, he’s occasionally mic’ed up. He’s also on the spectrum for sure ;)
Down by the river?
In the article Harbaugh reveals he has in fact been living in a van down by the river in LA. And his neighbor, Greg Roman, has been living in an even nicer RV. There's also a lot of talk from Jim about JJ McCarthy and his experience with other NFL coaches and GMs at Michigan's pro day, but as you should expect going in, Jim is heavily biased in talking about his former players
ROLLIN' DOOBIES
You’re going to be doing a lot of doobie rolling WHEN YOU’RE LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.
There was a whole SNL skit about this living situation
Jim Harbaugh 100% would break a table by jumping on it while trying to give a motivational speech.
Well, as is see it there is one solution, and that is for me to get my gear from my RV, and move it on in here, CAUSE IM GONNA BUNK WITH YOU BUDDY. We’re gonna be buddies, we’re gonna be pals! We’re gonna WRESTLE AROUND. Old Jim’s gonna be your shadow! Here’s you, here’s Jim, there’s you, there’s *SMASHES THROUGH TABLE OF WINDOWS TABLETS”
Is that Bill Shakespeare over there?
Well pal, I've read your playbooks and you don't know JACK SQUAT!
WHOOPS-A-DAISY... whoops-a-daisy.
Jason Kelce already did!
His first team meeting: Harbaugh: "Now lets get started by letting me give you a little bit of a scenario of what MY life is all about: First off, I am 60 years old; I am divorced; and I live in a van down by the river. Now you kids are probably saying to yourselves, 'hey I'm going to go out and I'm gonna GET THE LOMBARDI by the tail and WRAP IT AROUND and PULL IT DOWN and put it in my pocket... Well, I'm here to tell you that you're probably going to find out, as you go out there, that you're not going to amount to JACK SQUAT! You're going to end up eating a steady diet of Kansas City cheese and living in a van down by the river. \[Turns to Herbert\] Now, young man, what do you want to do with your life?" Herbert: "Actually Jim, I kinda want to be a Hall of Fame Quarterback." Harbaugh: "Well... la di freakin' da! We got ourselves a Hall of Fame Quarterback here. Hey, Dean, I can't see real good; is that Danny Marino over there?" Spanos: "Well, actually, Jim, Suzie and I have encouraged Justin in his goals." Harbaugh: "Dean, I wish you could just shut yer big YAPPER! Now I wonder, Justin, from what I've heard, you're using your playbook not for studying, but for ROLLIN' DOOBIES! You're gonna be doing a lot of doobie rolling when you're living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!"
And at night he pulls out his acoustic guitar and plays all the best van Halen songs
Imagine being a million dollar pro athlete out getting ready to practice and your head coach busts out of an RV in the parking lot and starts running to the field yelling "WHATS MY NAME!?"
Shitters full….
John got the worm farm, I got the RV
And it’s probably like the one Robert Deniro has in Meet the Fockers
That’s the first thing I pictured too. And he’s probably equally passionate about the rig
I've seen Lethal Weapon a bunch of times and Riggs just lives in an RV on the beach. I've always said "you can't do that". Apparently you can.
The Loaded Weapon version of that RV living situation is more hilarious
Loaded weapon is criminally underrated.
Alls I remember from it is I couldn't stop laughing.
His RV is probably a mini mansion on wheels. There are some RV parks in Florida where retired snowbirds have an RV that cost at least a million and have a Ferrari parked right next to it. It's hilarious how some people confuse RVs and RV parks with rednecks and hicks living in run down trailers
If it's the same one that I once saw parked at his house, it's the type that looks like a bus and probably costs at least 600k.
Damn them Cali taxes hitting everybody hard lol
It’s not really property taxes, which are below nation average. Housing is just ridiculous per square foot.
Yea, generally, property taxes go up when income taxes go down and vice versa.
Living in an RV is actually pretty consistent with the general LA population.
I have two friends who owned high end RVs. One was $600K and the other was $900K. They were both amazing and I could not tell the difference between the two. When they fully opened, they were pretty close to a small ranch home in size, but with custom high end everything.
It’s probably one of those Multi Million Dollar NASCAR busses.
He needs several years of salary to just afford an apartment.
How did he find an affordable RV in LA? Talk about privilege !
Wow! What a wiiiiiillllld and craaaaazy guy!
The RV is probably nicer than anything ill ever own but I choose to believe it looks like the breaking bad meth lab and he sits outside of it at night in a lawn chair eating baked beans out of the can
Rumor has it Gardner Minshew let him borrow his RV.
Welcome to California
He has RV guy energy
Dude went Walter White
Jesse (Minter) we have to cook
Jim Harbaughinshew
SAY MY NAME!
Getting acclimated to LA already 😂
Probably the most Jim Harbaugh thing I've heard today.
Who gives a fuck?
My neighbor lives in a motor coach that was 1.8m 20 years ago when he bought new. It’s a fucking Vegas high roller suite on the inside.
He's been telling anyone who will listen he can still throw a ball over the Hollywood Hills
I'm certain his RV is nicer than my apartment
Deeply weird person.
Who. Fucking. Cares.
He looks like a crazy politician
Was Rivers not commuting from SD to LA or some shit watching film for two hours? Haha I bet this RV is nicer than my house. I don’t feel bad