Stephen A. Smith is baffled by Kelly Stafford saying on a podcast that she dated husband Matthew’s backup quarterback in college to make him jealous.
Kelly spoke about the early days of her and the Rams quarterback’s relationship at the University of Georgia during a recent appearance on the “Off the Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe” podcast. and revealed it wasn’t smooth sailing, which led her to getting together with Matthew’s backup to “piss him off.”
“How is it that y’all know that men have egos and males are ego dominant, but you forget that when it comes to your own man? What could possibly make you — if you are Mrs. Stafford, what could possibly make you think that it is OK for you to go home after revealing to the public, ‘I kicked it with his backup?’” Smith said on his podcast. “What possible, possible advantage could you peel from that with a husband of yours who you have four kids with?”
Smith, the ESPN star, said he met Kelly Stafford once before and called her “a nice lady.”
“I’m not casting any aspersions on her character or anything like that. I would never disrespect Matthew Stafford’s wife or anybody else’s wife,” Smith continued. “I’m just making the point, what would make you think that’s OK? Why would you do that?”
Kelly, who was a cheerleader at Georgia, said on the podcast that her relationship with Matthew, 36, “wasn’t that cute” at first, and she had an elaborate plan to try to strengthen their connection.
“I hated him, I loved him. I dated the backup to piss him off, which worked — he was the bad boy too. Matthew’s so sweet and a Southern gentleman and all that stuff,” Kelly said. “And the backup was the complete opposite, and it upset him.”
Matthew and the unnamed backup lived in the same dorm room, Kelly said, and he’d see her car outside.
“At one point he waited and followed me into the car. I was like, ‘This is amazing, it’s working,’ ” Kelly said on the podcast. “I was like, ‘Get out of my car.’ He was like, ‘He’s not right for you.’ I was like, ‘What? You can’t tell me that.’”
The couple got married in 2015 and have four daughters, 7-year-old twins Chandler and Sawyer, Hunter, 5, and Tyler, 3.
Kelly underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor in 2019.
