Spencer Reid, Andy’s son and a Chiefs assistant, still tells people he’s from Philly
Reid grew up during Andy Reid's time as Eagles head coach. He went to St. Joseph's Prep, Harriton High, then Temple. He is now an assistant strength and conditioning coach for Kansas City.
NEW ORLEANS — Spencer Reid said he doesn’t think Andy Reid treats him any differently than others on the Chiefs’ staff. But he’s not sure his father spends close to the amount of time with him compared to certain players.
“I joke with some of the guys like he probably spends more time with Patrick [Mahomes] and some of the quarterbacks than he does his own son, just from the business side of it,” Reid said last week. “And he’s pretty businesslike.”
Reid has been an assistant strength and conditioning coach for Kansas City the last two years. But he had to prove his bona fides, he said, before his father considered hiring him. Reid worked at BYU, Colorado State, Boston College, and Utah before joining the Chiefs staff in 2023. (He did intern for the Chiefs from 2019-20.)
“I don’t think I anticipated him hiring me,” Reid said at the Super Bowl. “I figured I’d just do what I enjoyed, and then it just ended up that way. It wasn’t like something I aspired to do or a goal I had — even the NFL. I don’t think that was like an end goal.”
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Reid has been around the game a long time, of course. He was born in Green Bay when his father was the quarterbacks coach for the Packers and then moved to Philadelphia when the elder Reid got the Eagles head job in 1999.
Spencer Reid attended St. Joseph’s Prep for 2½ years before transferring to Harriton High. He then played football at Temple. He said when people ask him where he’s from, he tells them Philly. He was an Eagles fan, but said the Chiefs playing his father’s former team in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday has no additional meaning.
“It’s just another game,” Reid said.
Reid isn’t the first of his father’s sons to officially work for him. Britt Reid was a Chiefs assistant coach for eight seasons. In February 2021, he crashed into two parked cars, injuring two young children, near the training complex, just a few days before Super Bowl LV.
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Britt Reid told officers he had consumed two to three drinks earlier in the evening. Two hours after the crash, according to a probable cause, Reid had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.113%, above the legal limit of 0.08.
A 5-year-old passenger in one of the parked cars was in critical condition and spent 10 days in a coma. The Chiefs didn’t renew Reid’s contract that offseason. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison.
On March 1, 2024, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson commuted Britt Reid’s sentence. He’s serving the remainder of his term under house arrest until October 2025.
Andy Reid kept his eldest son, Garrett, and Britt around the Eagles following highly publicized road rage incidents that revealed both were drug users. The former struggled with addiction and died at Eagles training camp in Lehigh, Pa., in August 2012.
The Reid family dedicated Reid’s first Super Bowl victory in 2020 to Garrett’s memory. Reid has since won two more championships and is one win from becoming just the third coach in NFL history to win four or more Lombardi Trophies. Bill Belichick won six with the Patriots and Chuck Noll won four with the Steelers.
Spencer, a married father of three, said his father is unlike any coach he has worked for and that he doesn’t cast him in a certain light because of his accomplishments.
“It’s all I know,” Reid said. “It’s like anyone else who grows up with a parent — like a doctor’s son — that’s just how they view them. I don’t put him on a pedestal or anything like that.”