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24 Part IllSaturday, December 13, 1986 Cos Anfielea Stones SPORTSCENE SAIE BLOWOUT PRICES LIQUIDATION ftfk NEVER BEFORE PRICES WHEELS AND TIRES its right eye, a thigh contusion, a hip-pointer, a concussion and the winning touchdown reception? It should be noted that he made the winning catch after twice going to the locker room to have injuries patched. That game was a 60-minute microcosm of 18 years. Is this era ending? I suspect it is, though Joiner said nothing to encourage such a notion. Such an announcement would create quite a fuss, and Charlie doesn't like to have anyone fussing on his behalf. When it comes time to retire, the Chargers will probably ask him how he wants to handle it.

"Handle what?" he will probably say. "If anyone notices I'm not there when training camp starts, go ahead and tell 'em I've retired." NFL pension and work toward my CPA certificate." Is there any doubt that Charlie Joiner has played football long enough to get a good start in life? None at all. "If it was left up to me," he said, "I'd play 10 more years. I know it's not possible, but that's how I feel." What, I asked, is Charlie Joiner's secret to longevity? "One way," he said, "is not sustaining major injuries. You also must keep up with modern ideas, not get behind in offensive or defensive philosophy, and adapt your talents to changing philosophies.

You have to stay in condition in the off-season. Being under Coach Don Coryell lengthened my career, and that should be a focal point. And playing with Dan Fouts obviously had a lot to do with it." You might note that Charlie Joiner did not say anything about Charlie Joiner's skill or Charlie Joiner's courage or Charlie Joiner's intelligence or You get the idea. He was astounded that Coryell recalled the 17-7 victory over Denver for the 1979 AFC West championship as The Charlie Joiner Game. "He said that?" Joiner said.

"That was a big game for the entire city. That was a big game for everybody. Dan Fouts had a big game and so did the defense. Forty-five guys played their hearts out." OK, so what if Joiner came out of that game with stitches over his TK Nonrhlghi Higher Mounting balances available discount prices CASH VISA MASTER CHARGE ONLY Steel wheels any size, any style. White wheels-any size, any style ALUMINUM MAGS, any size, any style $10095 Comp.

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The record shows that 58 of those receptions were for touchdowns. I wouldn't be surprised if 600 of the other 689 were for first downs. That is Joiner's forte. Charlie has spent 18 years slipping into enemy secondaries like a CIA operative penetrating the Iron Curtain. He should forget his uniform and wear a beret and overcoat.

No one seems to know where he is except Dan Fouts. In reality, Joiner wears No. 18. He would be appalled at such a suggestion, but the Chargers will retire that number when he does. What really appalls him is the suggestion that he may someday have to retire.

I was not about to make such a suggestion, but I did want to ask him about it. I arranged to meet him at a quiet restaurant in our Tierrasanta neighborhood. Understand that the first time I asked Charlie Joiner how much longer he hoped to play football was in 1978. He has since caught 498 passes. I don't think I was totally out of line asking such a question so long ago.

In his book, "First Down and a Billion," former owner Gene Klein described the 1976 acquisition of Joiner as a trade for an "aging and happy wide receiver." That was 10 years ago, for heaven's sake. Charlie Joiner is 39 now. He has a broken right hand and a broken nose. These are not career-threatening injuries, to be sure, but These are not even season-threatening injuries, at least to a Joiner. This man has never missed a game since he came to the Chargers in 1976.

However, it occurred to me that Sunday's game against Seattle could be Joiner's last home game. "I suppose it's in the back of my mind," Joiner admitted, "but I block that out. Guys who think old start to act old and they end up playing old. I don't want that to happen. I'm not thinking about retirement." Not at all? "My thoughts aren't on retirement," he said.

"We have two more games to play, and I want us to finish on a good note. I want to conclude the season, have a good time with my family during the holidays and then think about next year in January." Joiner goes through life the way he runs pass routes one step at a time with a destination firmly in mind. That was the way it was when he came out of Grambling as a No. 4 draft choice of the Houston Oilers in 1969. "My ambition," he said, "was to play football long enough to get a good start in life, qualify for the iiJi7.

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It is up to McMahon to rehabilitate himself." Jobe added: "My gut feeling is that Jim is going to do it because of his desire to return to the game and because I've known him since BYU as a hard worker." Jobe said it will be three months before McMahon has full range of motion in his shoulder and six months before he can throw the way he must to compete. The shoulder has been temporarily locked into a throwing position to get the healing process going correctly, Jobe said. The operation was in two parts. Jobe's report: There was, first, an arthroscopic examination to trim the rotator cuff, a group of four muscles surrounding the main bone of the upper arm at the shoulder junction. Noticing at that time that McMahon's shoulder was unstablethat it had slipped out in front Jobe also made an incision to reconstruct the front of the shoulder.

The surgeon's purpose in the second part of the operation was to repair the ball-and-socket joint so that the ball will not slip out of the socket when McMahon throws. Both problems, the rotator cuff tear and the accompanying instability that caused the clicking noises McMahon heard, have been with him most of the season, since at least October. McMahon's injuries have prompted critics to charge that he reported out of condition last summer, after months of post-Super Bowl banqueting. True or false, there will be no parties this winter. McMahon's agent, Steve Zucker of Chicago, said: "Before we came out here for the surgery, Jim had me cancel most of his off-season appointments.

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