Kelly Stafford almost didn’t make it to the end zone with Matthew Stafford.
The wife of the Los Angeles Rams quarterback detailed the couple’s road to romance after meeting at the University of Georgia—and as she explained, their love story “started out horrible.”
“Long story short,” she explained on the Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe podcast June 11, “wasn’t that cute of a relationship at first.”
The 35-year-old said that she and the NFL star met before school started, as he was the quarterback and she was a cheerleader. And while she was ready to jump into a relationship, he was more interested in “casual dating.” But as Kelly joked, “I didn’t know what that was.”
Instead, they were very much off and on, with her saying, “I hated him. I loved him. I dated the backup to piss him off.”
Kelly noted that his teammate—whom she described as a “bad boy” to the footballer’s “Southern gentleman”—lived in the same dorm as Matthew, so he most certainly noticed her extracurricular activities.
