Andy Reid, not who we thought?

People who know Reid best understand his duplicity far better than a fawning local and national media, who continue to reinforce the myth of his honorable nature, ignoring his insufferable attitude after Brian Dawkins’ abrupt departure or his unforgivable public criticism of David Akers just days after the kicker learned that his six-year-old daughter had cancer.

In Andy Reid’s warped world, the words investigation and cover-up are interchangeable. For example, the Chiefs planned no sanctions against Kareem Hunt last year until a videotape surfaced showing him assaulting a woman in a Cleveland hotel. The victim revealed, after Reid had no choice but to release Hunt, that the Chiefs had never bothered to interview her during what they said was an “extensive” probe.

Even after the prosecutor’s office in Kansas City had publicly acknowledged that a crime had been committed in the assault on Hill’s three-year-old son, Reid planned no recourse against Hill until an audiotape surfaced last Thursday in which the child’s mother documented Hill’s repeated verbal and physical abuse. This is a good guy?

Enabling two miscreants like Hunt and Hill should be more than enough cause for scrutiny – if not suspension from the NFL – but between those two scandals, the veteran coach had one more domestic-abuse insult to offer from his media-secured cocoon. It was time for “Frank’s day.”