Sky York Journal
When the Matthew Stafford Trade Rumors Look Legit
In November 2024, Kelly Stafford admitted she started “spiraling” after seeing on Instagram that her husband Matthew Stafford was being traded from the Los Angeles Rams to the Minnesota Vikings.
Her first instinct was to text Matt right away, “like, ‘What’s happening?'” she shared on an episode of her podcast The Morning After With Kelly & Hank. “And that’s one thing you don’t want to text your husband. ‘Hey, have you heard you’re getting traded?’”
She ultimately deemed such a message “inappropriate” unless he brought it up, figuring the athlete would have seen the rumors himself.
Having already packed up their life to move to L.A. in 2021 after spending the first 12 seasons of Matt’s career in Detroit, their daughters would be “devastated” if they had to relocate, Kelly said. But, she added, “I’ve always told myself I will never separate our family, because it’s not fair to anyone. It’s not fair to him to not be able to see his girls; it’s not fair to the girls to not see their Dad. I would lose my mind without him.”
