How Andy Reid became one of the NFL's best coaches ever

Andy Reid is set to win his fourth Super Bowl as coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.

In 1982, Mike Holmgren’s responsibilities as an assistant football coach at Brigham Young University included keeping the staff’s six young graduate assistants in line. 

He quickly grew to like one in particular: a 24-year-old former BYU offensive lineman from Southern California named Andy Reid. Reid took copious amounts of notes and was a good listener, and his mix of self-effacement and football curiosity made him someone Holmgren, who was a decade older, liked hanging around.

“We became friends,” Holmgren said. “He would come over for lunch in my house. He helped me install a playground in the backyard for my kids. They were little at the time, and it was really fun.”

More than four decades later, Holmgren laughed as he retold the story recently, because the qualities he quickly noticed in Reid during his first year in coaching have helped Reid build something far grander — a case to be considered among the greatest coaches in NFL history. 

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