Three's a crowd, but nobody told Kelly
Stafford. Fans think she was out of bounds after dishing about giving up the cakes to a backup
quarterback. What is Matthew supposed to think? Los Angeles Rams star Matthew Stafford's wife,
Kelly Stafford, has given NFL fans a new reason to dislike her. Kelly, who first hooked Matthew
during their undergrad years at the University of Georgia, shared a new, unflattering tidbit
about their early romance while speaking on the "Off The Vine" podcast. After admitting that her
relationship with Matthew wasn't always ideal in the beginning, Kelly revealed that she pursued
Matthew's backup quarterback for a short period. "I dated the backup to piss
him off, which worked." "Oh, yes. That'll do it." "He was the bad boy, too." Kelly's efforts worked Matthew up into
a jealous frenzy and put them on the path to their eventual marriage, but fans
don't think the story is all that cute. Social media wasted no time sharing their thoughts
on Kelly Stafford's former hookup. One said: "She does not even seem concerned or worried
about how her actions made her husband feel." Another replied: "She thinks she's the main character and doesn't realize her husband is the
only reason she is relevant." "I think if you asked anyone who knew us
at Georgia if they thought we would have ended up together with four kids, they
would have laughed their asses off." Meanwhile, another fan wrote, "Kelly Stafford just needs to stop talking about it already. I didn't even know
the guy's name until this post." Yup, fans also took it upon themselves to
do some amateur sleuthing into the identity of this "bad boy" backup. While Kelly
heavily guarded the player's identity, fans eventually zeroed in on Joe Cox, a former
Georgia Bulldog and who is now married to one of the school's former cheerleaders.
Apparently, once the name was out, fans descended on Cox's social media profiles
to call him out for the supposed fling. The thing is, Kelly has adamantly
denied that Cox was the man from her story. She rushed to set the record
straight, writing on Instagram: "I am so sorry for the media storm that
happened last week that made its way into your lives. You have ZERO involvement
in what I spoke about, and in fact it was y'alls relationship in college that I
looked up to and wanted for me and Matthew." Suffice it to say, fans weren't
moved by Kelly's apology, which made zero mention of her own family.
One fan tweeted alongside five crying emojis: "She should be apologizing to her husband." Another fan wrote: "She really must not like Matthew, how do you
apologize to a guy and it NOT be your husband." One more fan agreed, suggesting that Kelly should
go one step further to rectify things, saying: "She needs to apologize to
her husband on camera first and foremost for shredding
him in the public sphere." "Was it love at first sight?" "I mean, we liked each other." NFL fans aren't her only haters. Commenter
Stephen A. Smith also criticized Kelly for blasting her relationship with Matthew
in public, wondering out loud how she could go home to Matthew with her
head high after saying all of that. "What possible, possible advantage could
you peel from that with a husband of yours." Former NFL pro Channing Crowder
also expressed his annoyance at Kelly during an episode of
the "Pivot" podcast, saying: "It just makes Matt look bad. Don't say
things that make your spouse look bad." After admitting that he'd probably shared
things in the past to upset his wife, Crowder claimed that Kelly's sin of, quote,
"giving the cakes up to a backup" was far worse. "And then you come back around. So, now you done
knocked it down and your buddy done knocked it down, and you done came back around and jumped
in the car. Man, that was unacceptable for me."