Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie’s surprising hire of Andy Reid in 1999 led to 14 seasons of success but no Super Bowl wins, an agonizing parting and, now, a reunion of old friends in Super Bowl LVII.
Reid made a strong first impression on Lurie, and the two men got to know one another. So when Lurie fired Rhodes as his coach following a 3-13 season in 1998, his next move made perfect sense to him — although perhaps not to others. He would turn to Reid, then an obscure quarterbacks coach for the Packers who was a former offensive lineman at Brigham Young University and once aspired to be a sportswriter. In January 1999, Lurie hired Reid to coach the Eagles.
“It was surprising to me that other teams weren’t super interested in him because we tried to hire Andy as our offensive coordinator and [the Packers] wouldn’t allow him to come,” Lurie said. “So we knew he was their most treasured asset at the time. And then he was our first choice to be head coach, and nobody else was interviewing him. So it was kind of like, ‘Hmm. Why is that?’ I was a young owner. So you don’t always know why others have priorities in different directions.
“I thought they did a very thorough job of interviewing a bunch of guys,” Reid said. “I felt very honored to have been the one that got the job. I don’t know if I was their first choice. But I was sure happy to get the job.”
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