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Kelly Stafford couldn’t help but tease husband Matthew Stafford about his alleged wandering eye on the football field.
It all went down on the Tuesday, October 15 episode of “The Morning After” podcast, when Kelly welcomed Matthew as a guest. During a rapid-fire round of questions, Kelly asked the Los Angeles Rams quarterback which NFL team has the “hottest cheerleaders.”
Matthew, 36, attempted to dodge the question by asking, “You in the suite, what are you talking about?”
But Kelly wasn’t letting her husband off the hook.
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“How do you not say Dallas?” Kelly posited about the iconic Cowboys’ cheerleaders.
A noticeably uncomfortable Matthew responded, “Dallas is up there. Yep. Sure. This is such a lose-lose.”
While laughing at her husband’s uneasiness, Kelly said, “Matthew and I actually do talk about this.”
After regaining some of his composure, Matthew argued that he and other players in the league aren’t exactly concerned with the spectacle surrounding the game.
“I think you guys are way more into the stuff going on around the stadium than we are,” he said.
Kelly admitted to being “so intrigued” by every stadium’s gameday entertainment, which she acknowledged doesn’t quite impress her husband in the same way.
“I’m going, what were [the cheerleaders] like?” Kelly recalled asking Matthew. “He’s like, ‘I don’t know.’ You had to have some kind of look!”
Kelly added, “You sneak a peek, don’t lie.”
Matthew, clearly ready to move on from the subject, didn’t say a word.
Elsewhere in the episode, Matthew discussed appearing on Fox Sports’ NFL coverage on Sunday, October 13 during the Rams’ bye week.
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“I had a lot of fun,” Matthew gushed. “That group makes it really easy, too. It’s not a stuffy environment from the moment I walked in there. I obviously have a great relationship with Charissa [Thompson] and some of the guys that are on the earlier show.”
When Kelly asked Matthew if he could “see himself” transitioning to a career in television once his football days are behind him, Matthew responded enthusiastically.
“Yeah, I would love to,” he said. “Talking about the game, being in some version of that, is an appealing thing to me. Wherever it is, it is. But I do think staying involved in the game of football is something I want to do.”
Matthew will have two years remaining on his contract following the 2024-’25 season. He and the Rams return to action on Sunday, October 20 when they host the Las Vegas Raiders.
