Kelly Stafford made light of her husband, Matthew Stafford, taking a rough hit when his NFL team, the Los Angeles Rams, played against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, September 21.
“After the game, I asked [Matthew], ‘What was going on? Are you OK?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, I got my nuts crushed,’” Kelly, 36, told listeners on “The Morning After” podcast on Tuesday, September 23. “Listen, I don’t know what it feels like, obviously! Time out! He got his nuts crushed. As women, we don’t know what this feels like!”
Kelly made the shocking revelation while analyzing a tense moment during Sunday’s game at Lincoln Financial Field, where Matthew was slow to get back up after one hard-hitting play. Once Kelly confirmed her husband wasn’t seriously injured, she quickly saw the funny side.
“I looked at him, and I said, ‘Well, you know what? [This is] God’s way of taking care of your vasectomy since you haven’t done it in the last two years. So, thank you, Jesus,’” she quipped. “He just looked at me … I go, ‘Ice ‘em on the way back [home], honey. You’ll be OK!”
Matthew and Kelly’s four daughters were in attendance at Lincoln Financial Field, which made for a worrisome few seconds when the Rams quarterback first went down.
“Injuries around the league, they are hurtful,” she pointed out. “I had a little bit of a ‘deep breath moment’ when Matthew was slow to get up after a play. Being there is tough because you can’t tell [what happened]. On TV, they are replaying it so you can see what maybe [is] hurting him. I’m texting my friends, [asking,] ‘What are they thinking?’ … [They said], ‘It looks like it could be his knee, or is it his back? Or, he’s old, so what part of the body might be hurting?’”
Kelly later added, “I’m thinking knee. I’m thinking back. He’s like, ‘my nuts,’ and I’m like, ‘Wooohoo! Praise God! [Free] Vasectomy! He doesn’t even need it right now because God took care of it.’”
Unfortunately for Matthew and the Rams, Sunday’s game ended up in a 26-33 loss to the Eagles. While Matthew faced disappointment on the field, Kelly admitted it was “hell” getting their daughters from L.A. to Philadelphia for the game. (Matthew and Kelly share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 7, and Tyler, 5)
“We get to the airport and I have to shower all of them … [there’s] a lot of hair when you have four girls,” she recalled. “It clogs the drains. It does all the bad stuff. And it takes a f*** ton of time.”
The trouble continued when they arrived in Philly, as their driver was ill-equipped to handle all of the luggage that a family of six needed.
“[The driver] goes, ‘Wait, are these all yours?’ I go, ‘Yes, they all have matching Rams stuff on, of course they’re mine,’” Kelly relayed to her podcast listeners. “And he’s like, ‘Oh, I don’t have a big enough car.’ What? Not in a car service. That’s some s*** Uber says to you.”
The Staffords were eventually able to get to the game on time after numerous delays. Despite an ill-fated start of the trip, Kelly was thrilled that her daughters greeted former Eagles center Jason Kelce and his wife, Kylie Kelce, after Sunday’s game.
“We got to say hello to them,” Kelly said. “The whole experience was great. The ending sucked, but the whole experience, my girls loved it.”
Matthew and his L.A. Rams will be back on the gridiron at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Sunday, September 28, when they face off with the Indianapolis Colts.