"On TV, I can just tell by the expression on his face on the sideline how he's faring," she said.
She said she was not surprised that the former neighbor became a football coach.
"Andy was always a football guy," she said. "It was either football or he was going to be a sports writer. Jim Murray, he loved."
Reid, who briefly penned a sports column for the student paper at BYU, has said he tried to copy the distinctive style of Murray, the late, legendary Los Angeles Times columnist.
Poor recalled when Reid returned a few years ago to give the John Marshall High commencement address. (Apparently, he did not begin by listing injuries suffered by the senior class.) She and Reid agreed that Poor is the only neighbor remaining from his days living in the neighborhood. When he visits, she said, they don't talk about football.
"Old times, family, things like that," she said. "I guess he's not having a great year right now. I was really relieved they won in San Francisco."
That Sunday Eagles victory and the Phils' postseason success have taken a little of the heat off Reid (though seeing the Cowboys trade for Detroit wideout Roy Williams yesterday certainly did not mellow the citizenry).
Lopes is eager to share a little of the winning mojo, should the Eagles' coach find time to make his way across Broad Street when the baseball team returns home, hopefully with a World Series berth in its pocket.
"Maybe he can come over for a practice or something," Lopes said. "That'd be great." *
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