Perhaps the urge started with Andy Reid’s mom getting him a subscription to Sports Illustrated when he was about 6 years old, soon compelling him to start reading an article if he liked the pictures that went with it and then coming to admire the work.
Perhaps it was because he grew up in the Los Angeles area, a mile or so from Hollywood Boulevard and able to see the lights of Dodger Stadium at night from his home. He was motivated by the sterling writing of sportswriter Jim Murray, whose eloquence and humor are compiled in The Jim Murray Collection that Murray’s widow sent Reid with a note that he keeps in his office.