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Over 14 years, the marriage was often good. At times, it was even great. But it never reached the ultimate peak. So each spouse found a new partner, and alas, they learned of even greater heights. No, we’re not talking about your friend’s cousin’s brother-in-law.
We’re talking about Andy Reid and the Philadelphia Eagles — and the split that left each, then and now, better than they’d perhaps realized they could become.
Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs outlasted the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, on Sunday night to win the AFC championship. Three hours earlier, head coach Nick Sirianni and the Philadelphia Eagles had trounced the San Francisco 49ers, 31-7 in the NFC title game.
ounger NFL fans may associate Reid primarily as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach who won the 2019 season's Super Bowl, as the mastermind offensive schemer who has augmented rather than hindered the success of the best quarterback in the league, Patrick Mahomes.
The Reid-Mahomes duo (and the other 50-plus players, and dozens of coaches, and front-office staffers that compose the Chiefs organization) have advanced to five straight AFC championship game appearances and now three Super Bowl berths in the past four years. But as they look ahead to the opponent that awaits in Glendale, Arizona, they’ll also look back.
Because before there was Reid and Mahomes, before there was Mahomes the NFL player (much less Mahomes the NFL MVP), there was Andy Reid, 14-year head coach of the Eagles.
Reid to Eagles: ‘I wish you a big ring’
The ending was softer than NFL splits often are. Lurie called Reid “a gem of a person … not only an outstanding coach, but an outstanding person” as the team dismissed their more-than-decade leader.
“This man was amazing to work with, smart and dedicated himself,” Lurie said. “I look forward to the day when everyone welcomes him back into the Eagles Hall of Fame because that’s inevitable.”
Reid, too, called his Eagles tenure “the greatest 14 years of my life” as he exited while noting “sometimes change is good.”
Reid not first NFL coach to face former team in Super Bowl
Reid is not the first NFL head coach to coach a Super Bowl against a team for which he was formerly head coach.
Jon Gruden coached the then-Oakland Raiders from 1998-2001 before guiding the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl win over the Raiders the season immediately after departing.
Seattle Seahawks head man Pete Carroll coached the New England Patriots from 1997-99 before completing the 2013 season with a title game against the Patriots. Bill Belichick and Tom Brady’s team ultimately trumped Seattle.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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