The Friday night car accident in Kansas City was not the first time that Chiefs coach Andy Reid’s son has faced problems off the field.
Britt Reid – the Chiefs’ linebacker trainer – is under investigation for driving problems after being involved in a multi-vehicle accident that left a 5-year-old child with fatal injuries, according to police.
Reid told an officer that he drank 2-3 drinks and was on prescription for Adderall, according to KSHB.
The 35-year-old will remain at home and reportedly hospitalized in Kansas City, while Andy Reid is due to fly to Tampa Bay on Saturday and train against the Buccaneers in the Super Bowl 2021.
No charges were filed until Saturday afternoon. The youngest Reid has “several previous DUI contacts,” according to a search warrant obtained and published by Fox4 in Missouri.
Reid and his late brother Garrett Reid had legal problems for the first time in January 2007. Later that year, while distributing the sentence, a Pennsylvania judge described a “family in crisis” who lived in a house that was an “emporium of drugs ”.
Reid was sentenced to 8-23 months in prison plus five months probation for possession of a gun and drugs, including pleading guilty to a crime for possession of an unlicensed firearm. He pointed a gun at another driver after a dispute.
While in prison on charges of traffic violence, Reid was accused of driving under the influence of a controlled substance and carrying drugs in a separate incident in which he crashed into a shopping cart in a parking lot while on bail. He ended up serving six months on both counts and was released on parole after being accepted into a drug treatment program, according to reports at the time.
Shortly after his release, Reid began a coaching career that included an internship with his father on the Eagles’ team and two years at Temple. When Andy Reid was fired by the Eagles and hired by the Chiefs in 2013, Reid accompanied his father and worked his way into the coach of outside linebackers.
Now, with the Chiefs having spent the week before the Super Bowl LV training in Kansas City, Reid told the police that he had had two or three drinks and was drinking Adderall before the accident near the team’s training facilities. One officer noted Reid’s “smell of a moderate amount of alcoholic beverages”, whose “eyes were bloodshot and red.” The two injured children – one with minor injuries – were in the back seat of a car parked along a highway ramp to assist another disabled car, according to reports.
Reid is one of four surviving sons – two sons and two daughters – in the Reid family.
Garrett Reid, who was arrested on the same day as his younger brother in 2007, died at 29 from an accidental drug overdose during the Eagles’ training camp at Lehigh University in 2012.
Garrett first entered drug rehab in 2003, according to ESPN. Four years later, he was involved in a high-speed car accident that led the police to discover heroin and more than 200 pills in his car. Authorities said Garrett tried to smuggle drugs into prison while serving his sentence.
As of June 2010, Reid was living clean and free, reported Philly.com. At the time of his death, Garrett was assisting the Eagles’ fitness and strength program in an unofficial capacity.
After the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year, Andy Reid said of his son: “You can’t help but think about him. Absolutely.”
Reid’s youngest son, Spencer, worked as a Chiefs conditioning and strength intern in 2018 and now holds a full-time position in the Colorado State athletics department.