PRO FOOTBALL REPORT WEEKDAY UPDATE : CHARGERS : Reveiz Maintains Aplomb After His Successful Week

Kick true or be kicked out. That was the message Fuad Reveiz received from Charger Coach Dan Henning last week. Missed field goals were either to be eliminated from his repertoire, or he was to be eliminated from the roster.

A 42-yarder and five perfectly placed kickoffs in the Chargers’ 24-14 victory Sunday over Cleveland helped Reveiz escape a trip to the waiver wire.

That’s great and all, Reveiz says, but he’s not dancing a jig. Thirteen games remain, and one thing he’s learned from five seasons in the NFL is you don’t dwell much on one performance. Good or bad.

“You can’t ever feel you’re the worst guy after a game,” he said. “And you can’t feel you’re the best guy in the world after a game. You’ve got to stay right in between either way and know that the next week you’ve got to get better.”

Reveiz received a pile of support from his teammates through his kicking crisis, but, as special teams’ coach Larry Pasquale points out, kind words and slaps on the back don’t get the ball through the uprights.

“You’re out their alone when you kick that ball,” Pasquale said. “I hope he put (the situation) to rest Sunday.”

Either way, Reveiz doesn’t plan to let anybody else’s opinion bother him.

“I’ve got to believe in myself,” he said. “I’m not going to let somebody else tell me what I’m capable of doing.”

Safety Vencie Glenn doesn’t remember ever taking a harder knock on the head than he did Sunday in his collision with Brown receiver Reggie Langhorne. Come to think of it, he doesn’t remember this one, either.

“I just remember hitting the guy,” he said. “That’s it.”

When the light bulb went back on, he was being assisted off the field. Dr. E. Lee Rice examined Glenn on Monday and said Glenn suffered a concussion and a slight shoulder strain. Rice said Glenn should be able to participate in non-contact drills by Wednesday and play in Sunday’s game against the Houston Oilers.

On one play Sunday, Marion Butts bounced a cornerback off his chest en route a 15-yard sprint into the end zone. On another, the running back ran and then crawled over the goal line from the five-yard line.

But Butts wasn’t credited with a touchdown. The 15-yarder was nullified by a holding penalty on left guard Courtney Hall. And on the five-yarder, the referees said he was down, even though the replay showed that nobody touched him before he crashed to the ground and squirmed across the goal line.

“Evidently, I was robbed out of two touchdowns,” said Butts, who finished with 90 yards in 24 carries. “That one on the goal line . . . oh, my gosh, I was in. Heck, yeah, I was in.”

As if it wasn’t enough that he was stripped of points, Butts landed on the ball on his the five-yard run that turned into a four-yarder and had the wind knocked out of him.

Undoubtedly, though, the football was kinder to Butts than Butts was to Cleveland’s Tony Blaylock. Blaylock came charging up from his cornerback position as Butts swept to his right on the 15-yarder. He attempted to make the tackle. Butts kept going. Blaylock wound up on his back.

“He wasn’t that tough a guy, because, gosh, he didn’t even break my stride,” Butts said. “It was him or the goal line, and I wanted to cross the goal line.”

Quarterback Billy Joe Tolliver would like everybody to know that he doesn’t plan to spin the roulette wheel with the Charger offense.

“Apparently, there’s this widespread notion that I’m the riverboat gambler,” said Tolliver, who completed 12 of 29 passes for 139 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions Sunday. “I’m as conservative as the next guy, but the difference is that my opinion of an open receiver is a little bit different than what other people think.”

Charger General Manager Bobby Beathard will meet with other general managers from around the NFL today in New York to discuss the possibility of adding a three-to-five man developmental squad to each team’s roster.

Dick Daniels, the Charger assistant general manager, said that if approved, the developmental squads would be added before the end of the season, possibly in the next several weeks.

About 43,000 tickets have been sold for Sunday’s game against Houston at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, Charger president assistant Jack Teele said.

Teele expects to sell approximately 50,000 by kickoff time, but says the game will probably not sell out, which means it will be blacked out on local television.