The first AFL draft occurred before the league's 1960 season. Ron Mix, whose last season at USC was in 1959, therefore became the first elite USC football player to face the choice between the AFL and ...

Ron Mix poses outside the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on July 28, 1979, after he was enshrined. At right is Joe Madro, Mix's defensive line coach with the Chargers. (Madeline Drexler / ...

It was not just a nation of sports fans and media that became entranced when former Chargers great Philip Rivers, like a soldier, answered the call to duty and joined another one of his former teams, ...