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Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs appears dejected after his team’s loss in the Super Bowl.
Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid said his “heart bleeds” from those injured in a car accident involving his son, assistant coach Britt Reid, which left two children with injuries and one of them hospitalized in critical condition.
The accident happened Thursday night, two days before the Chiefs departed for the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida. A vehicle had run out of gas on a freeway entrance ramp and another vehicle had parked nearby to help when young Reid’s pickup truck struck the left front of the first car before hitting the rear of the second car.
The two boys, ages five and four, were in the second car and were taken to the hospital. The five-year-old was still in critical condition Monday (NZT), and a GoFundMe account established for her family had already raised more than $ 275,000 when the Chiefs lost 31-9 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the championship game.
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“My heart goes out to everyone involved in the accident, particularly the girl who is fighting for her life,” said Andy Reid. “I cannot comment on more than I am here, so any questions you have, I will have to reject at this time. But only from a human point of view, man, my heart bleeds for everyone involved in it. “
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Britt Reid, 35, who coaches outside linebackers, did not travel to the Super Bowl.
The young Reid told police he had had “two or three drinks” and had a prescription for Adderall when the accident occurred, according to a search warrant filed Thursday night. A police spokeswoman said an investigation into whether Reid was incapacitated before the accident could take several days to complete.
“I mean, it was a tragic situation in every way,” said Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who had one of the worst games of his NFL career in the Super Bowl. “You are praying for everyone who was involved.”
Britt Reid has been in legal trouble multiple times.
He was arrested in January 2007 in Pennsylvania for an incident of highway violence in which he pointed a gun at another driver, and was sentenced to up to 23 months in jail and five years probation after pleading guilty to the charges of carrying a firearm without a license, simple assault, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of a criminal instrument.
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Seven months later, Reid was arrested and charged with driving under the influence, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug-related paraphernalia. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to up to six months in jail.
Reid seemed to get his life on track, beginning his coaching career as his father’s intern with the Eagles in 2009. He spent the next two years as a graduate assistant at Temple, his alma mater, before joining the staff in Kansas City.
After two seasons as a defensive quality control coach, Reid was promoted to assistant defensive line coach. He then spent three seasons as a defensive line coach before switching to outside linebackers for the past two seasons.
His father declined to say that the car accident near Arrowhead Stadium last week had something to do with the Super Bowl result, although Mahomes acknowledged that the whole situation left the team a bit deflated.
“It’s difficult to put it into words,” Mahomes said. “The boys were still ready to go. It’s still a very tragic situation and you want to keep that in the back of your mind, and you give prayers to the family involved. I don’t mean to say that it affected us in the field. They beat us. There is no excuse for that. But you are definitely praying for those families. “
