A historic three-peat is on the line for Andy Reid and the Chiefs. Standing in the way is his former team: The Eagles

For many years, Andy Reid was synonymous with midnight green, white and black. Now, he is best known for red, white and gold.

Reid was a vastly successful head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles for 14 seasons, leading the team to nine playoff appearances, five NFC championship games and one Super Bowl.

In 2013, he switched Pennsylvania for Missouri to become head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, going onto even greater heights with three Super Bowl victories to his name, including two in the last two seasons.

On February 9, Reid has a chance to etch his name in the history books for the umpteenth time as the Chiefs seek to become the first team to win three titles in a row.

However, like he did two years ago, Reid will be coming up against a familiar foe at Super Bowl LIX – the Eagles.

In 2023, Super Bowl LVII ended in the most dramatic of fashions with a field goal with eight seconds remaining that sealed Kansas City’s victory and Reid’s second career championship ring as a head coach.

This time around, Reid – widely considered one of the best head coaches in NFL history – will be aiming for something similar.

‘You have to hire Andy Reid’

Don Shula, George Halas, Bill Belichick and then Andy Reid. That is the company Reid occupies as he sits fourth in all-time victories as a head coach.

Reid, who got the nickname “Big Red” because of his red hair and mustache in his younger years, has gone from a graduate assistant at BYU to one of the most successful coaches in NFL history and the leader in his field among active coaches.

At Super Bowl Opening Night, Reid spoke about his youth growing up in Los Angeles, California, and how it grounded him moving forward.

“I had a chance to be around everybody, all different kinds of people,” Reid told reporters. “That was the great thing about growing up, I grew up right below Dodgers Stadium. Every ethnic group you could imagine, every religion you could imagine and we all got along.”

But it might never have ever gone that way. Back when he was studying English at BYU, Reid was considering a career to become a doctor or a writer, penning a weekly column for the Provo Daily Herald in Utah as he explored his childhood dream of writing for Sports Illustrated.

It was only when the college’s football head coach at the time, LaVell Edwards, had a conversation with Reid to turn his mind to coaching.

“We’d be out there practicing and working, and there’d be questions coming up on how to pick up a certain blitz,” Edwards said of Reid, who was an offensive lineman on BYU’s team, per the Chiefs website. “I noticed a lot of times (Reid) was helping the guard, the tackle or the center next to him, to make sure they understood what to do if there was some kind of stunt or whatever they did.

A historic three-peat is on the line for Andy Reid and the Chiefs. Standing in the way is his former team: The Eagles

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