LAS VEGAS � When Andy Reid and Tom Melvin united on the Northern Arizona University football coaching staff for one season in the 1980s, they hardly imagined they would be preparing for Super Bowl 58 together nearly four decades later.
Reid was hired as the Lumberjacks offensive line coach for the 1986 season and immediately encouraged Melvin to join him in Flagstaff as a graduate assistant tight ends coach.
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