Kelly Stafford, Taylor Swift. Courtesy of Kelly Stafford/Instagram ; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photos
Kelly Stafford credit Taylor Swift’s connection to soccer for serving to her develop her podcasting empire.
Throughout a dialogue with singer and actress Jana Kramer on the Sunday, November 17, episode of her “Whine Down” podcast, Stafford mentioned the football-themed episodes of her personal present, referred to as “Timeout,” blossomed on account of Swift’s relationship with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star Travis Kelce.
“The ‘Timeout’ is actually because of Taylor Swift as a result of she’s gotten a variety of ladies into soccer,” Stafford defined.
Stafford releases two episodes of her podcast “The Morning After” weekly, with the Tuesday “Timeout” episodes targeted on soccer and instructing listeners the fundamentals of the sport.
Kelly Stafford has loved watching Christen Harper bond with the Detroit Lions wives and girlfriends ever since their respective husbands swapped groups. “I truthfully love that if you got here in there … the crew ladies have actually gotten shut, which I really like watching,” Stafford, 35, advised Harper, 31, throughout the Friday, September 6, episode of […]
“As I’m doing this, I’m realizing how a lot I don’t know,” mentioned Stafford, who’s married to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford.
She added, “It’s rather a lot more durable than I assumed to know the ins and outs. I do know the fundamentals, which helps me watch it. However that’s what ‘Timeout’ is. It’s mainly studying the fundamentals so folks can get pleasure from it extra after they’re watching it with their important others.”
Kelly launched “The Morning After” in 2021, shortly after her husband was traded to the Rams after spending the primary 12 seasons of his NFL profession with the Detroit Lions. The couple, who bought married in April 2015, share 4 daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 7, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4.
“I used to be actually drained and actually down on myself on a variety of issues — as a guardian, as a spouse, with my seems,” Stafford mentioned about that interval in her life.
Kelly defined how she noticed the podcast as a automobile to embrace the chaos of modern-day motherhood and relationships.
“I simply wished to create an area the place we speak about not all of our greatest issues,” she advised Kramer, 40. “Possibly we combine it up and speak about a few of our failures in order that we don’t really feel so alone after we do fail.”
On the subject of Swift, 34, Stafford lately bought trustworthy about how she struggled with the overwhelming quantity of consideration the pop star’s relationship with Kelce, 35, obtained in its early days.
“I’ll say, I sort of bought uninterested in the Chiefs’ protection of it, really the NFL’s protection, of this budding relationship final 12 months,” Kelly mentioned on the October 30 episode of “The Morning After.”
She added, “It was a very good enterprise determination for the NFL, however I virtually felt prefer it was outshining the video games. That’s what bothered me. I used to be a little bit jealous of the truth that they had been getting all this consideration and swiftly the soccer sport was the sideshow. So yeah, possibly I let jealousy get the perfect of me.”
No matter sophisticated emotions Kelly as soon as had about Swift went out the window this Halloween when she dressed up because the singer for the vacation simply days after shocking her daughters with a visit to see the Eras Tour in New Orleans.