Even the wives of soccer superstars can’t assist however feed into the NFL rumor mill.
When phrase started circulating final month that Matthew Stafford was in talks to be traded from the Los Angeles Rams to the Minnesota Vikings, it got here throughout his spouse Kelly Stafford’s social media feed.
“I open up Instagram in the future and I’m like, ‘Oh, do I would like to start out on the lookout for a house in Minnesota?’” Kelly recalled on “The Morning After” podcast Tuesday, November 5. “Like, what’s taking place? And that’s one factor you don’t need to textual content your husband. ‘Hey, have you ever heard you’re getting traded?’”
Kelly didn’t textual content Matthew, 36, within the second, saying it will have been “inappropriate” to take action.
Kelly Stafford unabashedly let unfastened whereas watching the Los Angeles Rams safe an important victory on their house area. The spouse of Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford responded after a video of her dancing inside her suite at SoFi Stadium from final week’s recreation hit social media. “Welp…my dance strikes are embarrassing,” Stafford wrote through Instagram […]
“He’s seeing it, too,” she stated. “It’s not like he’s not seeing these rumors.”
Kelly admitted the discuss had her “spiraling just a little bit,” particularly when it got here to her and Matthew’s 4 daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 7, Hunter, 6 and Tyler, 4.
So, given the circumstances, Kelly couldn’t assist however take into consideration what the Stafford household would do if the rumors changed into actuality.
“I’ve at all times instructed myself I’ll by no means separate our household,” Kelly stated. “As a result of it’s not honest to anybody. It’s not honest to him to not be capable of see his women; it’s not honest to the women to not see their Dad. I’d lose my thoughts with out him.”
The plan, in that case, was non-negotiable.
“I’d decide up, go, lease a spot for six months, put the youngsters in a public college for the remainder of the autumn and are available again within the winter,” Kelly defined.
Kelly acknowledged her women can be “devastated” a few potential relocation, particularly after the household moved throughout the nation in 2021 after Matthew was traded to the Rams from the Detroit Lions.
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Alas, the commerce to Minnesota by no means occurred, which Kelly credited partially to the Rams’ latest successful methods.
“I do consider the truth that we received the final two video games and are within the hunt now for our division goes to imply that we aren’t buying and selling anybody away,” she boasted. “As a result of, what? We might really make a run now.”
After three consecutive victories in opposition to the Las Vegas Raiders, the aforementioned Vikings and Seattle Seahawks, the Rams have improved their report to 4-4, only a half recreation behind the Arizona Cardinals for first place within the NFC West.
The Rams return to motion on Monday, November 11, in opposition to the Miami Dolphins.