Forget about it perhaps being an unlucky omen that the Chiefs wasted no time making Andy Reid the 13th head coach in the team’s 53-year history.

Look at it more as a positive sign that, in 2013, the team’s new head coach couldn’t be considered more tailor-made for a franchise starving for stability in the worst way.

The first new head-coaching hire of the new year after also being the 2012 campaign’s first reported “Black Monday” victim, Reid, who turns 55 on March 19, racked up seven division titles, one conference championship and 10 postseason victories in his 14-year run as the Eagles’ winningest coach in team history by a wide margin (130-93-1). He had one five-year stretch (2000-04) in which he won at least 11 games each season (including one trip to the Super Bowl).

In that same 14-year span, the Chiefs managed only 98 wins, three postseason appearances and zero postseason wins under five different coaches.

In addition to the Chiefs not winning a playoff game since 1993 and having five losing seasons in the past six years, the front-office failings of GM Scott Pioli, who “mutually parted ways” with the Chiefs before the Reid hiring became official, had taken a mighty toll, creating a tense, divisive atmosphere — both within the organization and with the team’s increasingly bitter fan base.