All this right before the big Dallas game on Sunday night:
excerpts from articles)
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/20071102_Judge__Jail_for_Reids__a_family_in_crisis.htmlJudge: Jail for Reid sons; a family 'in crisis'
By Mari A. Schaefer
Inquirer Staff Writer
A Montgomery County judge who sentenced two sons of Eagles coach Andy Reid to jail yesterday described the Reid house as a "drug emporium" and directly rebuked both parents, saying, "I have some real difficulty with the structure in which these two boys live."
Reid and his wife, Tammy, showed little emotion as Judge Steven T. O'Neill sentenced Garrett and Britt Reid to jail - for up to 23 months - in a six-hour session and capped months of drama for the family and, by extension, the Eagles organization.
O'Neill was unsparing in his comments as he called the Reid brothers "drug addicts" and said the doctors the family hired to treat their sons prescribed drugs that helped create the addictions.
"It sounds like a drug emporium there with drugs all around and you're an addict," O'Neill said to Garrett Reid. "This is a family in crisis," he added.
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O'Neill read excerpts from a presentencing report that said Garrett Reid started using drugs and alcohol when he was 18, and started selling cocaine in 2000.
"I liked being the rich kid in that area," the report quoted Reid as saying, apparently in reference to North Philadelphia. "I could go anyplace in the 'hood. They all knew who I was. I liked being a drug dealer. . . . These kids were scared of me. I was even selling to their parents."
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