Andy Reid and His Wife Have Been Married Over 40 Years
Andy Reid's Wife Has Been His Biggest Fan for 40 Years
By Melissa WilletsJan. 25 2024, Published 1:10 p.m. ET
In a shockingly lucky accident, Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid has multiple love to last a life-time. In addition to soccer, the perpetual purple jacket-wearing group leader has been wed to the same woman because the Eighties.
Who is Andy's wife who has been by way of his side in the course of the many ups and downs of his NFL coaching career — in addition to enduring an unthinkable non-public tragedy in combination? Does the couple have any kids? Here's what we know about Andy's wife and circle of relatives.
Andy Reid transformed to Mormonism for his wife ahead of they wed.
The one-day prolific Chiefs trainer met his long term wife Tammy whilst attending Brigham Young University in the early 1980s. Tammy had a crush on Andy first, saying, "I wanted him to ask me out but he wouldn't ask me out so I finally goaded him into asking me out and we played racquetball for our first date."
Andy soon fell onerous for Tammy. Before they said "I do" in 1981, he made up our minds to make his future in-laws satisfied and transformed to Mormonism, in line with People.
Now, a majority of these years later, reasonably adorably, Andy still considers Tammy to be his "girlfriend." In 2020, he mentioned, "I've been … with her for about 40 years now. Every day is a special day, I'm telling ya. I call her my girlfriend for that reason. You never lose interest if you do that, right, you guys out there? Call them your girlfriend and you always do special things for them."
Andy Reid and his wife Tammy had five kids together.
It wasn't just Andy and Tammy who had to readjust to a completely new the town and life when he would tackle a brand new coaching task (Andy notably up to now coached the Green Bay Packers and the Philadelphia Eagles).
As Tammy explained about raising their massive circle of relatives underneath ordinary circumstances, "I had no idea what our lives were going to be like. I was just a roll-with-the-punches kind of girl and I’m a bloom-where-you’re-planted kind of girl. So we’d move. I’d get everybody ready, I’d get the house ready, we’d sell the house, do whatever we needed to do, jump in the U-Haul, and we’d just move.”
Indeed, the couple had five kids together (according to Tammy, Andy was always super involved in raising them): Britt, Spencer, Crosby, Drew Ann, and Garrett.
Britt was an assistant coach under his father for the Chiefs. However, he was involved in a DWI car accident on Feb. 4, 2021, and sentenced to 3 years in prison. After the accident, the Chiefs suspended Britt and ultimately didn't renew his contract.
Meanwhile, tragically, Garrett passed away from a drug overdose in 2012. He was only 29 years old.
"It's a sad scenario. It's one my son has been combating for quite a few years. My circle of relatives has been struggling with,'' Andy said shortly after shedding his son.
As for Tammy, she supported her husband returning to coaching the Eagles just a day after Garrett's funeral. "She figured I'd be going. She encouraged that. As long as I used to be OK with it, she encouraged it,'' the coach additionally stated.
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