No one wanted to talk about this too much while Andy Reid was still coaching the Eagles, but it was always out there. His son Britt had some serious problems, and so did his brother Garrett. (Garrett died of a heroin overdose in 2012.) Via WIkipedia:
In 2007, Britt was sentenced to 8 to 23 months in jail alongside his brother Garrett for running what a Norristown, Pennsylvania, judge then called a “drug emporium” out of the Reid residence.[4]
The same year, in 2007, Reid was involved in a road rage incident in which he allegedly pointed a gun at another man’s face. A lawsuit was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2014.[5]
Reid crashed into two parked cars on February 4, 2021, injuring two young children near the Chiefs’ training complex, just a few days before Super Bowl LV. Reid admitted to officers he had consumed two to three drinks earlier in the evening and was on Adderall, a prescription medication used to treat attention deficit disorder. Two hours after the crash, according to a probable cause statement, Reid had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.113, above the legal limit of 0.08.[6] Reid, as well as a five-year-old passenger of another vehicle, were both hospitalized. The five-year-old passenger was in critical condition and spent ten days in a coma.[7] On April 2, 2021, roughly two months after the accident, the five-year-old girl was released from the hospital, still unable to walk or talk and being fed through a feeding tube.
Here’s what Britt said in 2019:
Ahead of the Chiefs Super Bowl championship against the San Francisco 49ers in 2019, Britt acknowledged his past behavior and the good fortune that came his way as the son of Andy.
“I just needed to grow up,” he said, per the NYT. “Some people make dumber decisions than others when young, and you’ve just got to learn from them. I believe there are positives to everything in life, but, no matter how bad it is, you can take something from it. I am sure I learned that from my father, and so that’s kind of what carries me through.”
Good old Dad.
Now, via the Daily Beast:
The family of the five-year-old girl who was severely injured by former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid in a drunk driving crash is “disgusted” by the governor’s decision to commute his sentence, the family’s lawyer said.
Reid, the son of Chiefs’ head coach Andy Reid, took a plea deal in 2022 and received three years in prison in connection with the crash that left 5-year-old Ariel Young temporarily in a coma.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parsons commuted Reid’s sentence Friday night, saying he had “completed his alcohol abuse treatment program and has served more prison time than most individuals convicted of similar offenses.” Reid will remain on house arrest until Oct. 31, 2025.
Tom Porto, the attorney for Ariel’s parents, said the family was “horrified” by the decision.
As well they should be. And I notice that Governor Mike Parson left some convenient breathing room between the Super Bowl victory and this travesty.
