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Matthew Stafford’s wife, Kelly, outraged Detroit Lions fans following her comments ahead of their Sunday Night Football showdown in Week 1. Before the matchup between the Lions and Rams, she said she would skip\u00a0her husband’s game<\/a>\u00a0against his former team.<\/p>\n When the Rams faced the Lions in last season’s Wild Card, Kelly and her kids attended the game, but the reception they received was less than hospitable.<\/p>\n \u201cI think, you always hear the worst ones. You don\u2019t hear people that are like, thank you for you all you do,” Kelly Stafford said at the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “You hear the ones that are like, \u2018F**k you, Kelly! Obviously, there are a ton of people in a stadium, but that\u2019s what you hear, and that\u2019s what you hold on to and I don\u2019t want to hold onto that. I\u2019d rather watch it at home and remember all the incredible times I had there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To protect her kids from irate fans, Kelly decided to watch the game from home. After hearing her complaint, former ESPN host Jonathan Coachman had this to say about her comments:<\/p>\n “Fans can be brutal…. She said, ‘I don’t feel comfortable going back to Detroit. The fans were not nice to me.’ Are we supposed to care about a quarterback’s wife and whether or not she feels welcome back? This is the NFL!” (11:17 – 11:44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to Coachman, Kelly was making a mountain out of a molehill.<\/p>\n Eventually, Kelly turned up to watch her husband play. She was at the stadium to watch the Rams get humbled by the Lions in a repeat of last season’s Wild Card round.<\/p>\n
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