Andy Reid put together a terrific second-half game plan en route to his second Super Bowl victory, this time against his former team. However, instead of the Chiefs head coach being celebrated after the game, he was subjected to some odd comments from Terry Bradshaw.
Bradshaw asked Reid to “waddle over here” to begin the interview and it didn’t get much better from there.
Andrew Fillipponi and Danny Parkins of the Audacy Original Podcast “1st & Pod” called out Bradshaw for the “completely inappropriate” comments during his interview with Reid after the Super Bowl.
“I have a soft spot for Terry Bradshaw because he won four Super Bowls in Pittsburgh and he’s obviously been battling a lot of health issues this year, which I do think has affected his work. And I know he’s going to say that he’s just being classic Terry and he wanted to loosen the mood and he’s always a funny guy,” Fillipponi said (1:08 in player above). “I thought him with Andy Reid after the game was completely inappropriate and just in poor taste. ‘Waddle over here,’ basically like ‘you’re old like me,’ and like ‘eat a cheeseburger.’
“The last group of people that it’s OK to do that with in that setting are people that are overweight. And I actually watched that and I’m like why is it acceptable right after this is a crowning, shining moment for Andy Reid, a coaching Picasso here, that he’s got to be ribbed for being overweight? I don’t know. That just didn’t sit well with me, man.”
Parkins agreed with most of what Fillipponi was saying, but brought up the fact that Reid does it to himself. “You’re using his material back to him. It’s like quoting a bit to the stand-up comic.”
While Parkins thinks that it’s tacky, he doesn’t think it’s offensive.
“I’m with you on like 90% of this take,” Parkins said. “Terry Bradshaw is not a master of ceremonies. You employ hundreds of people. I mean the pregame show had 11 people on it at one point. You have Tom Rinaldi; the guy’s got room for all of his Emmys. Erin Andrews would do a fine job and has done it before.”
Bradshaw was a bit of an odd choice to conduct the interview, but even still he should’ve handled himself better in that situation.
“I just think playing to the Reid stereotype in that moment – I wanted better for him in that moment,” Fillipponi said. “Instead of joking around about his eating habits – look, I don’t need him to go to the drawing board and tell us about the intricacies of a play that worked, but just like celebrate the fact that the guy just won his second Super Bowl. Reid had to work in something about the Eagles. Ask him about what it was like to beat his old team.”
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