With coaching his life, Jim Johnson fights on
It would be easy, and understandable, for Jim Johnson to make the other choice. Get an up-close look at your own mortality and it would be tempting to find a beach somewhere and enjoy whatever time you had left.But there was Johnson yesterday, calling out corrections to his Eagles defenders after yet another play at yet another minicamp practice. It was a scene as familiar in South Philadelphia as double-parked cars, except that Johnson was sitting atop a motorized red scooter.It is his only concession to the breath-robbing pain in his lower back, the only grudging change he’s made during this grim fight with the cancer that lodged in his spine.He will be 68 later this month. He has had a …
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With coaching his life, Jim Johnson fights on
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