Before Super Bowl LVII, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid seemed to imply that he was considering whether or not to retire after the game.
“Look, I’m not getting any younger. I still have a young quarterback. I have a decision I have to make after this game,” Reid told Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer.
After the Chiefs defeated the Philadelphia Eagles to win the Super Bowl, Reid seemed to make it pretty clear that he actually wasn’t likely to retire, saying that he’d love to shoot for Super Bowl victory No. 3 and that “if they’ll have me, I’ll stick around.”
Given that Kansas City’s Super Bowl window appears to be open for quite a few years ahead, it stands to reason that Reid would want to take advantage of that.
Now, Reid is saying that he never meant to imply that he might consider retirement. His comment to Glazer came from being exhausted about answering the same question “50 times.”
“I was asked that about 50 times down there,” Reid said Tuesday. “I think by the time I got to Jay Glazer, I said, ‘Hey, listen I’ve been asked this about 100 times.’ That’s not the direction I am going. It wasn’t a yes or no answer I guess, so it came across maybe that way. That was not what I was thinking.”
All’s well that ends well for Reid, who now has two Super Bowl wins and will go looking for a third in 2023-2024.
