Andy Reid’s funniest on-field story
Andy Reid has probably forgotten more funny football moments than we’ll ever know. When he was asked about his funniest on-field story he immediately knew which story he was going to tell.
“It is pretty funny, I mean this just doesn’t happen,” Reid began. “Our equipment man in Philadelphia was a fellow named John Hatfield. Now listen, I’ve got a lot of funny experiences but this was a really funny one. So John Hatfield was our equipment man, and again he had just one of these personalities. If you’ve ever seen ‘Piggly Wiggly’ [supermarket chain], you know the trucks that drive by, his face kind of looked like that. But he was an all-time great guy. And so, we’re in the game and Brian Dawkins — who is a Hall of Famer and one of our players in Philadelphia — his facemask breaks. He comes off this field — this is ‘Monday Night Football’ — he comes off the field and his facemask is hanging there. John is like the pit crew at NASCAR. I mean he races up to him, he’s got his bag and he starts working on him and his pants fall down right to the ground. His pants fall down! I can’t even believe that this is happening and I’m standing right there. I can’t believe that my equipment man’s pants have fallen down on ‘Monday Night Football’ and he’s standing there in his boxer shorts and he just completely ignores. The most important thing in his life at that moment was getting that facemask on and getting Brian Dawkins back into that football game and he did it in record time. And then he pulled his pants up and walked away like nothing happened at all. An absolute classic.”
Reid just lit up when telling this story. You can tell that he really got a kick out of that moment and that it’s one of his cherished memories from his time with the Eagles.