Kelly Stafford, the wife of Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has revealed what she texted Jared Goff’s fiancee following the booing brouhaha.
This comes after Christen Harper, who’s engaged to Lions quarterback Jared Goff got booed while on the sidelines with her four young daughters at Detroit’s 24-23 wild-card win against Los Angeles on Sunday.
“Actually, I was texting Christen Harper this morning,” Kelly said during the latest installment of her “The Morning After” podcast.
“And this is what I said, ‘You want your fans to be that passionate. That’s what you want. You don’t want to be on the other side of it, but if they are your fans, hell yeah! Let’s go!”
Kelly recalled being booed by some Lions fans while walking on the sidelines with her daughters — Tyler, 3, Hunter, 5, and 6-year-old twins Sawyer and Chandler — adding that Hunter started crying.
She also recalled Stafford being booed when he ran onto the field in Detroit, and when he took a hard hit in the third quarter, which resulted in him being taken to the medical tent.
“Listen, did I think we were gonna come in there and Matthew was gonna get a standing ovation?” Absolutely not,” Kelly said. “There’s no chance.
“I think in this scenario, you hear the boos. They’re louder than anything else. But this is a playoff football game. We’re coming in as the enemies… You were specifically booing my husband when he ran on that field, and that’s OK. I’m OK with that. I don’t want excuses being made.
“My girls and I are not playing the game,” she added. “My girls are not getting booed, I am, and I can handle it, but when I have my girls next to me there is something to be said, like, maybe not.”
Kelly explained that she was booed while visiting the Lions sideline to talk to team owner Martha Ford.
“Hunter was in tears,” she said. “I go, ‘guys they’re not booing you, they’re booing mommy… They want their Lions to win.’
“… Sawyer looked at me and goes “Well we’re not playing the sport” and I said, ‘That is very true Sawyer, but mommy’s been involved with a lot of things here and that’s what they’re booing.”
That was an unfortunate incident to have happened to Christen Harper and her daughters. Some fans can go to the extreme to do crazy things.
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