AVENTURA, Fla. — When the clock hit zero and the Chiefs clinched their first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years, the first ping into general manager Brett Veach’s phone came from the man in the NFL he’s known probably the longest: Bears coach Matt Nagy.
Veach caught passes from Nagy when the two played at Delaware. He later helped Nagy get his first NFL job: a three-week training camp internship with the Eagles in 2009. They were coworkers with the Eagles and Chiefs.
“He’s in Chicago now and I’m in K.C, but we spent so many years together — not just at Delaware, but going through the grind — and knowing how hard it is to get here,” Veach, the Chiefs’ general manager, told the Sun-Times on Thursday.