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BYU football coach Kalani Sitake, left, talks with Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid, a BYU alumni, during BYU’s Coaches Clinic on Thursday, March 24, 2022. | Jaren Wilkey/BYU
Why is Andy Reid here? And why is he rocking a blue and white jacket with a BYU logo on it?
Those questions swept through T-Mobile Center in Kansas City last March as Reid, a month after guiding the beloved hometown Chiefs to their second-straight Super Bowl title, appeared courtside before the Big 12 basketball tournament quarterfinals and chatted up BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe and Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark.
“We love having BYU in the conference,” Yormark told Reid, according to KSLsports.com. “Thanks for all you do for Kansas City.”
Meanwhile, dozens of BYU fans, and some Kansas City locals sporting Chiefs attire, got as close as they could to Reid to chat and get a selfie with the local legend. And the BYU fans gladly told their neighbors about Reid’s ties to BYU, and how the former BYU football player and graduate assistant continues to support his alma mater in not just football, but every other sport in which the Provo school competes.
Right up until the BYU basketball team tipped off against Texas Tech — alma mater of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes — Reid patiently took pictures and signed autographs.
“I love BYU,” Reid told the Deseret News in March of 2022 after participating in head football coach Kalani Sitake’s high school coaches clinic. “I bleed blue. I have a (BYU) football helmet in my office and I am all-in.”
But Reid isn’t thinking about the Cougars’ football program as much this week. The 66-year-old coach is trying to lead the Chiefs to their third-straight Super Bowl championship, which has never been done before in the history of the NFL.
