The Kansas City Chiefs’ training complex is not far from Interstate 435. On February 4, 2021, Britt Reid could have
driven from the facility, where he had been drinking, to the highway’s on-ramp in a matter of seconds. That’s when
his pickup truck reached 83.9 miles per hour and collided with two stopped cars, critically injuring a five-year-old
girl.
Andy Reid, Reid’s father and previous employer, the coach for Kansas City, was present when his son was sentenced
to three years in jail on Tuesday for a single felony offence of driving while drunk with serious bodily damage didn’t
appear in the courthouse. Britt Reid was taken into custody right away despite her request to be placed on probation.
The punishment was just one more chapter in the turbulent life of Britt Reid, 37, a former assistant coach in the NFL
who has struggled with drug abuse, much like his older brother Garrett, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 29.
Football has been more than just a job for the Reid family. Since they were very little, Andy Reid’s kids have attended
his training camps, and three of his sons and a son-in-law have held various jobs with him.
Hall of Fame coach and friend of the Reid family Dick Vermeil stated Andy Reid did for his kids what any parent
would do, problematic or not: he loved them and gave them a chance to thrive.
Vermeil stated, “I believe he was sincerely attempting to provide his son with a coaching opportunity.” “Any parent
would want to see their son succeed and be safe, in my opinion.”
There are questions about whether Andy Reid’s football connections and good intentions shielded his son at the
expense of others, particularly 5-year-old Ariel Young and her family, in light of Britt Reid’s collision, the case’s
treatment, and an assault that was previously undisclosed.
Britt Reid developed a painkiller addiction at the age of 14, went to jail twice in his early 20s, and served five months.
A couple of months before his crash in 2021, according to a police record, he got into a road rage incident with an
off-duty law enforcement officer, punched the officer’s driver side window but wasn’t charged – an instance that
hasn’t been previously disclosed.
The married father of three, Britt Reid, lost his coaching position and is currently without freedom. Felicia Miller,
the mother of Ariel Young, the girl who suffered terrible injuries in the collision, however, thought that her son’s
three-year sentence—which was based on an agreement with prosecutors that limited his prison term to four years
rather than the maximum seven—was better than nothing.
“He was once a D.U.I. He served time in jail. And he’s requesting probation? What planet is this behaviour worthy of
probation? Miller enquired in a statement that prosecutors read out.
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