Two years ago, on the eve of another Super Bowl appearance, rumors began to swirl in the Arizona desert. They centered on the future of Andy Reid, the Kansas City Chiefs head coach since 2013. Last week, Reid told Sports Illustrated that he believes he can trace their origins: to himself and his honesty, in interviews conducted earlier in ’22. In them, Reid says he tried to do nothing more than lay out the parameters in play.
He was 64 in the month of Super Bowl LVII and would turn 65 in March. He didn’t expect to retire after clashing with his former team for another Lombardi Trophy. Didn’t want to. Didn’t need to. Wasn’t being asked to. Reid also understood that many people retire at 65, a notion he saw as “kind of the thing to do.” But he had also asked his parents when they retired how they knew.
