This area has been talking about Andy Reid and his spoiled druggie sons since February! Haven't we hear enough? Empathy and sympathy are becoming fleeting emotions when all you hear is how one of these two druggie, yet good Morman sons has failed a drug test, been found with more drugs, etc. What are Andy and Tammy Reid doing? If they live in the same house with these boys, we can understand them not knowing initially what was up with their bad seeds, but now? How can you keep excusing the parents? Granted, these boys aren't boys any longer, but legal adults, but the question has to be asked: are the parents enablers?
Whatever the case may be, this ongoing drama is yet another black eye on this area. The saga over Baldwin School vs. fired teacher vs. spoiled parents is bad enough, but now this? And add to that all the murders in Philadelphia, and the horrible story of murdered Philadelphia police officer Chuck Cassidy, who left behind a wife and kids. Officer Cassidy isn't a multi millionaire like Andy Reid must be, and he lost HIS life doing one of the toughest jobs in the world: being a police officer.
So Andy Reid, Tammy Reid, we hope you get it together because at this point y'all need to decide what is more important: fame or family. Dealing with addictions is not easy we're told, nor is the path to a drug free life simplistic. But seriously? Maybe it is time to say sayonara to this area and concentrate on your family. The Philadelphia area deserves better. It's not our collective job to watch your sons, and every single time they are picked up for something new it costs the taxpayers more money for babysitting.
Your kids are addicts. Own it. Get used to it. Deal with it. And maybe, just maybe, you might want to publicly address this family issue taking up so much of our time. This stopped being a private family matter a long time ago.
....Britt Reid, 22, described his eight-year struggle with painkillers and other drugs at his sentencing in a road-rage case Thursday, the same day his older brother Garrett, 24, was sent to prison for a heroin-related car crash.
"This is a family in crisis," said Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill, who questioned whether the young men should return to their parents' home after they serve their jail terms. "There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon."
The judge noted that Andy and Tammy Reid love their sons...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.
And he said he thought that both defendants had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives. Britt Reid said he had been prescribed as many as five drugs at a time by some of his doctors, including Valium, Prozac, Adderall and some anti-addiction medicines.
"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 ... ."
Main Line Life: ONLINE EXTRA: Reid boys sentenced
By Margaret Gibbons
The family of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, is a “family in crisis,” according to a Montgomery County judge.
While the coach and his wife are “loving and caring” parents who used their financial resources in numerous unsuccessful efforts to wean their two oldest drug-addicted sons off drugs, they provided little control in the Lower Merion home they shared with their sons, said county Judge Steven T. O’Neill......“If they are going to live in your home, you better get to know what is there,” O’Neill told the stone-faced Reids sitting in the front row of the courtroom.
O’Neill’s comments came midway during the all-day sentencing hearings of the two Reid sons, 24-year-old Garrett Reid and 22-year-old Britt Reid.
This was the first time that Reid and his wife appeared in the courtroom in support of their sons.
Reid and his wife, offering no comment, were whisked from the courthouse at the conclusion of the hearings by two members of their security staff, courthouse security and sheriff deputies.
“Andy and Tammy are supportive of their sons but, as has been his position since this all began, Andy will not comment on it,” said defense attorney Ross Weiss....
Reids' home
The Reids are parents to a significantly learning disabled child too. The cards they have been dealt would be difficult for anyone. Don't judge others till you stand in their shoes.
reids as parents
even more reason that they should know what is going on with the rest of their kids.
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