This Reader Discovers the Many Faces of T.J.

It’s Week 16 and playoff implications abound: Yet, T.J. Hemingway devotes an entire column to an assistant general manager of a 4-10 team.

Jerry Rice sets an impossible recovery timetable and meets it. T.J. Freud attributes this feat to Rice’s “ego” needing to share Joe Montana’s spotlight.

Rice suffers a freak injury. Forget the doctors and two great catches, T.J. Howser M.D. feels the 49ers lacked the “gumption” to tell “headstrong” Rice he wasn’t ready to come back.

I liked T.J. better when he only pretended to know something about football.

WILLIAM M. MULLAN

Torrance