Sunday, September 2, 2007

Trade Places with Andy Reid?

Would you want to trade places with Andy Reid?
Sure, the Eagles head coach makes like a million bucks a year.
Yes, McNabb looks ready.
And the pre-season? Well, that doesn’t really mean anything (knock wood).
But then there are Garrett and Britt Reid, Andy’s sons.
In case you were shipwrecked on Champagne Island the last six months, Garrett, 24, awaits sentencing on Jan. 30 drug and traffic charges to which he pled guilty July 26.
And Britt, 22, apparently is trying to do his brother one better. Already out on bail for a Jan. 30 road-rage incident that included illegal drugs and waving a hand gun, he was arrested Aug. 24 after a shop keeper called police to report Britt looked unable to drive,
He was trying to navigate out of a shopping center when the police got to him, possibly saving others who could have been in his path.
The charges were driving under the influence and possession of drugs.
Leaving his arraignment Aug. 29, Britt Reid had a comment for the news media — TV, radio and print — as he exited court.
“Hi Mom and Dad,” he said, reportedly with a half-smile.
Hi Mom and Dad.
Most of us spend our lives trying to make our parents proud. Britt Reid apparently prefers to hurt the parents who raised him.
We will never know what problems — real and imagined — the Reid boys have had with their parents. Good upbringing, bad upbringing, why speculate?
Many young people like to see how bad they can be and still get away with it.
But this sounds like more. These privileged young men are to be pitied, especially if either, or both, are addicts.
But not as much as the parent who raised a child only to see and him saying into the camera after his arraignment, “Hi Mom and Dad.”

1 Comments:

At September 10, 2007 at 7:53 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

After watching his team’s obvious unpreparedness in the season opener, it’s apparent Reid is more distracted than he would care to admit, so for benefit of his family...and Eagles’ fans, he must step down. In answer to your question: I wish someone would trade places with Andy Reid.

 

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