This is not happening…but have fun with me for a moment.

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I wish Harvard offered more degrees like “football theoretics,” because I would be the first name on the sign-up sheet. I would sit in the front row and take the Ivy League’s most intense notes. I would never leave the study hall or tape library because I would be seeking answers to the gridiron’s most ridiculous questions.

My professors would grow aggravated with my questions and inquisitions into why the game is the way it is. Even in that circumstance with teachers catered for my particular educational pursuits, my personal dives (and melodramatic perception) into headlines would drive the best in the business crazy.

With that being said, bear with me.

After the 1996 season, the Green Bay Packers defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI. The game was played at the then-christened Lousiana Superdome in the state’s largest city of New Orleans. The pre-Belichick Patriots were led by Bill Parcells, who overachieved with a team recently bought by Robert Kraft. The gold standard of coaching at the time, Parcells was bested by Mike Holmgren and his staff of young geniuses. In 1992, there wasn’t just one Dream Team as Holmgren assembled NFL history’s best coaching staff.

The group featured five future NFL head coaches including Jon Gruden and one Andy Reid. When Steve Mariucci left to take over the California Golden Bears football program ahead of 1997, Holmgren shifted Reid’s coaching responsibilities from tight ends to quarterbacks. The former BYU offensive lineman coached Brett Favre to the last of his three consecutive Most Valuable Player Awards through the mid-1990s. Reid mentored Favre, Doug Pederson, and Matt Hasselbeck for another season before the Green Bay brain trust broke apart. Holmgren headed for Seattle while Reid began his tenure in Philadelphia.

I spend too much time watching movies and television. Working in football media (from home), I like to break up my sports consumption with non-athletic material when possible (I watched The Cable Guy when writing this article). Sometimes, the lines cross a bit too much and I try to fit storylines from film into football, God’s most irregular creation, but my mind can’t help but go to this scenario.

Could Andy Reid write the ending to one of football’s greatest stories ever told?

This year’s Big Game is held in the same city as Reid’s first career Super Bowl win. If screenwriters were to have enough wherewithal (and patience) to script a story over the course of a career, there would be no more perfect setting for Andy Reid to coach his final game than the Caesars Superdome, previously known as the Louisiana Superdome and the site of Super Bowl LIX.

Now, I know Andy Reid recently signed a massive contract extension and has swatted retirement rumors away more often than not, but this warms the heart a bit. If Travis Kelce were to match the move, their moment of controversy from Super Bowl LVIII could conclude with even more narrative closure.

Andy Reid’s jolly nature is only a recent memory for NFL fans. His press conference composure in Philadelphia matched Bill Belichick rather than everyone’s favorite grandpa who we have come to know and love. Reid probably won’t win any awards for his acting in commercials alongside his quarterback but he never fails to evoke a chuckle from me when the camera cuts to him. I’m not sure why Patrick will never share “those noogies” with Coach.

Far be it from me to incur the spirit of Mike Florio and create unfound retirement claims, I just like how some stories begin and end in the same place. Andy Reid probably isn’t retiring as long as Patrick Mahomes is playing, the Chiefs are in championship contention, and unforeseen circumstances are avoided, but he’s clearly shown the propensity to go along with a story if his heart is in it.