Elizabeth Reid and Walter Reid are the parents of the 65-year-old American football coach who is the head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League named Andrew Walter Reid.
Meet Andy Reid’s smart parents Elizabeth Reid and Walter Reid
Elizabeth Reid and Walter Reid are the parents of Andy Reid the American coach. His parents have been a great impact on his life. His mother Elizabeth was a radiologist and his father was a scenic artist in Hollywood who designed backgrounds and props for television, film, and stage shows.
According to Britt Reid son of Andy Reid, the science, math and traditional book smarts came from Elizabeth Reid his grandmother, and the creativity and artistry came from Walter Reid his grandfather.
“That’s two drastically different people,” said Britt, who coaches Chiefs outside linebackers. “My dad is a great artist himself. He can do caricatures — I mean, a lot of stuff. Carvings, stuff like that. Of anybody. He’ll just whip them up. So he’s got that side, then he’s got that intellectual side that his mother passed along, the more refined, calculating side.
“I think that serves him well, in this business especially.”
Britt went ahead to say, his father will often doodle plays on 5-by-7 note cards in his spare time, then share them with the rest of the coaches and quarterbacks. If they like an idea, they’ll try the play design in practice. One or two a week usually make it from the practice field to the game plan. When they work, the Chiefs coach will usually smile and wink.
“When you think about it,” Britt said, “it all makes sense. These plays are art. It’s all about lines. You draw those route trees, you’re drawing art. It’s easy to see the connection.”
And that’s part of why the Chiefs play San Francisco on Sunday in the Super Bowl.
Source: nflfaqs.com
