Kansas City Chiefs, Andy Reid joined forces after an airport interview – Kansas City Chiefs Blog

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Andy Reid’s path to turning into the pinnacle coach of the Kansas City Chiefs started 10 years in the past at an airport in Philadelphia, the place Reid had simply been fired by the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Arizona Cardinals had despatched a airplane to carry Reid to Phoenix for a head teaching interview. The Chiefs, with a training emptiness of their very own, despatched an entourage of entrance workplace workers, together with chairman Clark Hunt, to interview Reid on the airport.

Hunt recounted that assembly because the Chiefs and Eagles put together to satisfy in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday (6:30 p.m. ET, Fox).

“We had whatever, three or four hours, laid out for it and he was supposed to get on this plane, which I wasn’t aware was the plane that was there,” Hunt stated Tuesday.

As the assembly went on and the airplane sat idly with its door open, Hunt started to marvel in regards to the airplane.

Finally Reid stated, “Yeah, I’m supposed to get on the plane, or was supposed to get on that plane.”

Hunt was stunned to be taught that this was the airplane that was alleged to take Reid to Arizona. He stated the nine-hour interview was by no means meant to derail Reid’s assembly with the Cardinals.

“It was really just that the interview was going so well and we had so much to talk about,” Hunt stated. “At some point in the interview it flipped around and he was interviewing me, trying to just figure out and understand not only who I am, but what the culture of the organization was, what our facilities were like, what it was like living in Kansas City, something that he hadn’t done, and so it ended up taking nine hours.

“Both Andy and I left that meeting thinking this was probably going to work out.”

And it did, for each side. The Chiefs have made the playoffs in 9 of Reid’s 10 seasons. They have seven straight AFC West championships and on Sunday will play of their third Super Bowl in 4 years.

If the interview hadn’t gone as properly, maybe Reid would have jumped on the airplane, interviewed with the Cardinals and be teaching in Arizona proper now.

But he by no means did fly to Arizona then or meet with the Cardinals.

“That was an extended day,’’ Reid stated. “The time flew by. I felt unhealthy in regards to the airplane, although. It was ready and I really feel unhealthy about that. But everyone concerned is aware of that’s a part of the enterprise.’’