I wanted to watch a little bit of the late round coverage of the NFL Draft this morning, but I just wasn't into it. After Coach Belichick's turn on the ESPN+ coverage on Thursday night, it isn't that interesting, this coming from a fellow who would listen to draft coverage on sports radio in the car at one point.
I popped on an episode of The Rockford Files instead. I can't recall the name, but I'd seen it before and had it on in the background as I was cleaning up the office a bit. In the training that I've been talking about all week, Jim Camp brings up the example of Rockford's contemporary, TV's Columbo, as an example of someone who is a little "un-okay"—disheveled and more than unassuming.
Though Jim Rockford is a bit more put together than Columbo, the description of "unokay" passes for him as well. James Garner, who played Rockford wrote in his autobiography, The Garner Files,
Rockford isn't your typical detective. He's a quirky character who turns all the private eye clichés inside out: he works out of a broken-down trailer at the beach instead of in a seedy downtown office; he's got a telephone answering machine rather than a leggy secretary; and while most private eyes are loners without families, Rockford has his dad, Rocky.
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Rockford has a bad back and worse luck.
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Rockford's tricky, but he isn't bad. He's an ordinary guy. His a bit thick around the waist because of a weakness for tacos and Oreo cookies. He helps people who've been wrongly accused, just as he'd been.
Granted it's television, but The Rockford Files is some of the best TV you can watch, even a half-century after it was on. Rockford was ultimately a great negotiator. His mission and purpose was almost always squarely in his client's—or adversary's—world. Garner continued,
Rockford only pretends to like money. In truth, he isn't in it for the money because there isn't much money in it, and deep down he knows that: two hundred bucks a day plus expenses wasn't a lot, not even in the 1970s. Most of his clients stiffed him anyway. That's okay, because Rockford has no ambition beyond being able to pay his bills, go fishing with his dad, and drink a few beers while watching football on TV.
All Rockford wanted to do is help the wrongfully accused with their problems and make enough dough to kick back with his father and enjoy their lives together. Three more of Jim Camp's 33 negotiating principles stand out with the Rockford character:
Your job is not to be liked. It is to be respected and effective.
Results are not valid goals.
Money has nothing to do with a valid mission and purpose.
And speaking of football, Rockford loved the L.A. Rams, who now play at SoFi Stadium, right next to the NFL Network studios where the channel broadcasts from every day. Beautiful world of coincidence.
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That was cheap even at the time. Remember, Rockford was only trying to hang on to that sweet palace of a trailer and his Sierra Gold Pontiac Firebird with Camel Tan interior.
Everything else was gravy.
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As always,
Brian
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