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Now a Super Bowl Champion, Andy Reid’s hunger must have subsided (some)

There are only 13 people in history who have won more than one Super Bowl as a head coach. That is an incredibly small number when you consider that 500 people have held the position in the league’s 100-year history. So, why is it that only two percent of the head coaches in NFL history have won the game’s biggest prize? The answer is clear – it is really hard to do.

The energy level required to lead your team to the Lombardi trophy, and win, is outstanding.  Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh logged his work week for ESPN in 2013 and put in nearly 120 hours(there are only 168 hours in a seven day stretch). Reid’s work week may be even longer, famously chronicled by Philadelphia Eagles’ head coach Doug Pederson and ESPN Staff Writer Tim McManus:

"Reid’s work ethic is the stuff of legend. He made a habit of sleeping on his office floor while an assistant with the Green Bay Packers — that was about the only way he could beat Jon Gruden into the building — and continued that practice when he became head coach of the Eagles. Work days could last up to 22 hours, according to assistant coach Juan Castillo. Pederson, 49, is 10 years Reid’s junior but he has to concede to Reid when it comes to hours logged. “I’m more 5:30 [a.m.] to 10:30, 11 o’clock at night, where he might be an hour sooner — 4:30, 5 o’clock range,” Pederson told ESPN. “He can go til 11, 12, 1 — he can just go. I think you also can get to a certain point in the night where you start [makes a delirious face]. It’s counterproductive. He cranks on it pretty hard."

At some point it is human nature for that hunger to subside. And, when you’ve been at it for 30+ years, and you finally get over that one final hurdle that you’ve always dreamed of – maybe it is about that time.