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Justin Herbert and the Chargers will invite a lot more attention this season with the quirky and polarizing Jim Harbaugh taking over as head coach. (Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports)
About 11 minutes into Jim Harbaugh’s introductory news conference as the new Los Angeles Chargers head coach, absolutely unprompted, he started getting fired up about the team getting a new vacuum for the weight room. And he seemed absolutely serious.
“The weight room, we’re getting it cleaned up right now. Getting it all set,” Harbaugh said. “We had a great day just yesterday. I mean, talk about fulfillment. Going in there to Home Depot and getting the Shop-Vac.”
The Chargers needed to do something bold to get some attention in the Los Angeles market, and also to win some games. The relocation from San Diego played out exactly as expected, with the Rams being the choice of those who want to root for a local team, transients following whoever they grew up rooting for and the Chargers being mostly ignored.
Harbaugh changes that vibe. Instantly.
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When the Chargers lured Harbaugh away from Michigan, with Harbaugh likely having an eye on outrunning NCAA sanctions, they signed up for the whole circus. Harbaugh is genuinely quirky, as his excitement unknown to mankind for the new Shop-Vac showed. Harbaugh moved to Los Angeles and decided to live in an RV. It never seems like an act. He’s just a unique character.
He’s also a fantastic football coach.
At every stop, Harbaugh has won. He had a 29-6 record at the University of San Diego, took a Stanford program that was 1-11 before he was hired and ended up going 12-1 with an Orange Bowl win in 2010, led the San Francisco 49ers to a seven-win improvement his first season there and nearly won a Super Bowl the next season, then eventually turned Michigan into a 15-0 national champion. Four head coaching stops, and four success stories.
The Chargers are hoping to get relevance and wins, in whatever…
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Publish date : 2024-07-01 12:19:01
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