He was a fired coach strolling, he already knew that, however Andy Reid figured: If I’m going out anyway, I should remind all people I used to be within the room. It was grey and windy that Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, when he hopped off the Philadelphia Eagles crew bus at MetLife Stadium for one final skirmish with the Giants.
The Giants wanted a win and a few assist in Detroit to maintain their Tremendous Bowl protection alive. The Eagles had been merely keen to finish a season that had devolved right into a 4-11 mess, hoping to keep away from an eleventh loss within the ultimate 12 weeks. Reid introduced a little bit good friend with him — the Tremendous Bowl ring he’d earned as an assistant for the Packers again in 1996.
It was a curious alternative, a reminder each of his biggest day but additionally of the truth that he’d by no means fairly been in a position to duplicate that with the Eagles regardless of coming shut an terrible lot. Reid had already earned his repute as a man who can get you shut, simply not get you there. The ring appeared to represent all of that.
Then, first play of the sport, he ordered an onside kick. Alex Henery pulled it off fantastically. Brandon Hughes recovered. One ultimate trick from a coach who at all times appeared to have a bagful of them, and it solid a right away pall on 80,657 Giants followers in search of a closing-day parlay there and at Ford Subject.
