Chiefs’ Andy Reid says advice from his parents will guide him when it comes to retirement
We all may have missed a big good-luck charm that was absent for the Chiefs ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
It seems like in their past Super Bowl appearances under coach Andy Reid, there was always some rumor about how he was ready to retire. That wasn’t the case this year, and the Chiefs fell short of a Super Bowl threepeat.
OK, that didn’t really have anything to do with the Chiefs losing to the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, but Reid was asked about his future a few weeks later.
At the NFL Combine, CBS Sports’ Pete Prisco wanted to know if Reid has an eye on the all-time coaching record or if he has pondered retirement.
Including the playoffs, Reid’s teams have won 301 games. Don Shula (347) is the NFL’s all-time leader in coaching victories, followed by Bill Belichick (333), and George Halas (324).
Catching Shula is not on Reid’s mind at all.
“Pete, I’m not big on all the record stuff. Matter of fact, if you asked me how many wins I had right now, I couldn’t tell you. I mean, or that I’ve been involved with with these two teams,” Reid said of the Chiefs and Eagles. “So I don’t know all that. I don’t care about all that. I’m in this to teach young guys.
“I love the game, but I love teaching, so I’m in it to do that and trying to help them become even better at what they have a chance to do on the football field, but also off the field. And so that’s kind of where all my energy goes. The records and all that, eh.”
Reid then relayed a conversation he once had with his parents. It will guide his decision on when to step down from football.
“My mom and dad said this once,” Reid said. “I said: Why did you retire when they got to that, like, around that 65 age range? And they said, you’ll just know. You’ll know when the time is. And I go, ‘Oh, OK.’ So I know it’s not now, so that’s not today. And when it is, I’m gonna call you, and then we’ll walk out together.”
This story was originally published March 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM.
