Can there be anything more painful for parents than to see their children struggle so desperately with life? There is no joy in reporting the difficult struggles Philadelphia Eagles' coach Andy Reid faces with his adult sons. What happened that things went so wrong with the lives of the two sons of the successful NFL coach?
A Pennsylvania judge says that Reid's house in PA was a warehouse for drugs including steroids. From Fox News:
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there, given their drug problems.
"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing Reid's son Britt to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
When arrested last year, the Reid boys harbored significant amounts of drugs and weapons:
Police found a shotgun and hollow-point bullets along with cocaine, marijuana and OxyContin, a painkiller, in the vehicle Britt Reid was driving during a Jan. 30 road-rage encounter, and later found a handgun at the house that they believe he had brandished at the other driver.
They found vials of heroin and steroids, more than 200 pills and a drug scale in Garrett Reid's car the same day, when he injured another motorist.
Are NFL coaches that busy, that dedicated, and that single minded in the pursuit of voctories, that they ignore what's up with the family? If so, that horse is long gone out of the barn.
The judge noted that Andy and Tammy Reid love their sons and have supported them through repeated attempts at drug rehabilitation. But he wondered aloud how the parents could be blind to the long list of drugs, guns and ammunition that police found in the Reids' home and vehicles.
"These are highly addictive medications that are just around the house with two addicts in it," O'Neill said. "It sounds more or less like a drug emporium."
As the LA Times reports, Garrett Reid sold drugs down in the hood. He is so 'addicted' to drugs he smuggled RX pills into his jail cell.
It was Garrett who told the court he enjoyed being the rich kid who dealt drugs in "the hood," but that, "I don't want to be that kid who was the son of the head coach of the Eagles, who was spoiled and on drugs and OD'd and just faded into oblivion."
Yet he is apparently still addicted. Earlier in the day, authorities found 89 prescription drug pills in his jail cell. They believe he smuggled them in his rectum when he was jailed earlier this week.
Pathetic. Perhaps when the parents cut them loose without an allowance and a place to stash their dope, they might straighten up...then again, it's probably too late. They haven't learned how to be real men. The time to curb this destructive behavior has long passed. They are a danger to society and Andy and his wife at this point, not to mention the community. Cut them loose, Andy.
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