Reid and Childress gone fishing
The two coaches head to Alaska.
Reid and Childress gone fishing
Rich Hofmann, Daily News Sports Columnist
In the Twin Cities, they are on all-Favre, all-the-time duty. As rumors continue to swirl, there is the belief that if something is going to be announced, it won't be this week -- because Vikings coach Brad Childress and Eagles coach Andy Reid have headed to Alaska for a week-long fishing trip.
The two have been close forever, since before Childress was Reid's offensive coordinator with the Eagles. They've been close, their families have been close, they have gotten together in the off-season before. But it's funny. Say you're an accountant. Do you really, really want to spend a week of vacation with another accountant? But these guys do it.
It is such a different world, being a professional football coach. The hours, the pressures -- when you talk to them about it, they all say the same thing. That is, that nobody else really understands what they go through except for people who have gone through it. So they find comfort in each others' miseries, or something.
These two guys are good enough friends that they have other things to talk about than football, like their families. Still, it is hard to believe that football -- old stories, funny stories and current predicaments -- won't be a part of the conversational menu. So they travel four or five time zones away to have the same conversations that they have every week during the season on the telephone.
The point being, NFL coaches never seem to get away sometimes, even when they travel to Alaska.
And they would tell you that you have to be a football coach to understand.
Dumb artical, dumb comments. I guess nothing to talk about until camp opens.— craig123- do you hang out with other reporters? I don't see the difference.— palmyra21
- Sewell, you're an idiot. AR has brought nothing but reg season wins, playoff wins, and a chance every year. I bet you love Buddy Ryan and his um...one playoff win?— palmyra21
Buddy has 0 (zero!) (the NULL set) playoff wins. Buddy has the same number of playoff wins as I do. It's so unbelievable, people think he must have 1. But he has absolutely ZEEERO - just like the kind of person he is.— COskier- Andy should eat a little more fish— Reggie92
- buddy ryan might not have any playoff wins but he is still the man, we never and will never get a coach that fit this city so well, he built an all time top 5 defense, we miss you buddy— jbettner
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- Everyone is missing the point, these two good guys have to go to freakin Alaska to get a little peace n quiet, I would pay money to see a pic of big Red tossin a line in with Brad and a corncob pipe next to him. I honestly feel sad for them, they cant go the shore, they cant go to Lake Michigan, they have to go hang out with Rob Morrow and the Palin's, I can hear some of their conversation "Jeez, Bradford, why in the world would Tavares throw that duck with Asante just sitting on that" "I dont know Red but I'm still more upset that I'm screaming screen, screen, screen and Allen was the only one of the 11 that didnt get suckered" Favre will announce his comeback the monday after Federer wins to steal his spotlight— Onlineps2beast
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- You got six whole paragraphs out of "Reid and Childress went fishing." That's amazing.— dviljoen
- palmyra21 amen to your comment to sewell guy all the way from MA. He's an idiot. I was a palmyra guy myself til 1997......— The Manager
- Reggie Brown for Chester Taylor plus a draft pick?— dansdigs
- who cares....— nuggett
- rich, quess you no NOTHING about fishing and/or hunting
- i would go to Alaska and stay there if i had to spend 7 months with some of these idiots (aka football players)— oldBird
- i would go to Alaska and stay there if i had to spend 7 months with some of these idiots (aka football players)— oldBird
- Two old friends going fishing together. Alert the media.— TBear
- so these 2 buddys are going on a fishing trip. so freaking what? i'm sure u all have a buddy u'd like to do things with.but because they are nfl coaches, u all make something outta nothing.....GET A LIFE,will ya?— teephilly76
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- I'm an Eagles fan......maybe I shouldn't hang out with other Eagles fans?— Kecker
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- Dandigs I'd take that deal in a heartbeat..— MJPD345
- Dandigs I'd take that deal in a heartbeat..— MJPD345
- All hail the great socialist state of Alaska! Where you get a check just for being a resident. I guess that's why Palin brought up socialism so much being that she knew so much more about it than everyone else. As big as Andy Reid is I bet he claims residency in both PA and AK. Why is he on vacation anyway? Shouldn't he be at home taking care of his 30 year old kids.— I would have taken another name but lonewolf beat me to it
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- I cannot for the life of me figure out why i continue to read this blog. How about posting only when you actually have something meaningful? Check out Sheil's blog with the DeSean Jackson vid he posted from you tube. Sheil wrote three sentences and gave us a great find of a video. We don't need six paragraphs on Andy went fishing.— djack10
- Talk about squeezing blood from a turnip.— stingo
- No SB this year AR and DM are gone. Where to Minn of course. Andy can be DMc s QB coach.— FrankJ
- Fishing is good, writing about Red going to go do it, well, who cares! Want to write about big red fishing, then let us know what he's fishing for and what tackle he'll be using, at least it would be a little interesting. Guess we'll be seeing another one, "Big Red stops at the Fish Spawn reststop to relieve himself on his way to the fishing camp! Phewwwwwwwwwwww!!!— FireChief
- don't be stupid. this is a blog not an article. it doesn't stand up to the same journalistic scrutiny that an article does. There's not much here, but that's the nature of a blog, not everyone will find it interesting. Oh well. I hope it didn't take you all that wrong to read 6 paragraphs, move on and shut up.— TheChairman04
- Guess the powers that be didn't like my post here yesterday, don't get it sometimes, compaired to some of the ones you see on here it was an award winner, ahh well, keep on typing folks!!!— FireChief
