The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced recently that it will include Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid’s now-iconic face shield that he wore throughout much of the 2020 NFL season.
The mask will be included in the Hall’s Pro Football Today Gallery. It will be paired with a game-worn hat of Reid’s.
New to arrive at the Hall: the game-worn hat and face shield of @Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. He wore both of these items much of the 2020 season as a part of the @NFL's COVID-19 protocols.
More on these items: https://t.co/eoPrNNLMWP#ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/zdy1tNGRF7
— Pro Football Hall of Fame (@ProFootballHOF) February 22, 2021
Here’s a short blurb from the press release from the Hall:
“New to arrive in Canton and to be put on display in the Hall’s Pro Football Today Gallery are the game-worn hat and face shield of Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. He wore both of these items much of the 2020 season as a part of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols.
“In Week 9 (Nov. 8, 2020), the Chiefs defeated the Carolina Panthers 33-31. The victory was the 230th of Reid’s career. He surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Curly Lambeau for most wins in NFL history, moving into fifth place.
Indeed, Andy Reid’s mask fogging up in Week 1 of the season was one of the more amusing moments of the year for the NFL and the Chiefs. However, while this might make for an amusing anecdote at the gallery, the inclusion of this protective facial barrier in the Pro Football Hall of Fame should never take away from the fact that a deadly pandemic continues to run roughshod across the United States with no end in sight.
On a day in which the COVID-19 death toll hit 500,000–matching the number of Americans killed in WWII, Korea and Vietnam–let’s never forget that having any sports during a pandemic was likely a bad idea.
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