Andy Reid was just 40 when he became a head coach for the first time. Babies born that day are now in college. Reid was the second-youngest coach in the NFL, and had never been a head coach or even a coordinator at any level.
Fans in Philadelphia were less than impressed with his hire, perhaps best summed by a column in the local paper that called him a “large, lumbering, slightly rumpled man with a walrus mustache.”
Reid has been a constant in the NFL in the 19 years since, his hair graying, his offense innovative, his clock management cursed, his playoff losses ridiculed.