Bears’ McMahon Has Surgery on Right Shoulder

Jim McMahon underwent two hours of shoulder surgery Friday, and the doctor who performed the operation said the Chicago Bears quarterback won’t know until summer whether he’ll be able to play football again.

“It’ll be about six months before he can determine for sure whether he can throw well enough to be in the kind of game he’s in,� Dr. Frank Jobe said at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood. “You can’t say a surgery is successful until you see whether the result you want is accomplished, so we won’t be able to answer that question until July.�

Jobe said that, in addition to trimming some of the rotator cuff in McMahon’s right shoulder, it was necessary to reconstruct the front of the shoulder.