Matthew Stafford and spouse Kelly appear to be simply positive after the “media storm” over latest feedback she made about relationship his former Georgia teammate to “piss him off” through the early days of their relationship.
Taking to her Instagram Story on Thursday, Stafford took a shot at “insecure males” and gushed over her marriage with the Rams quarterback.
“Realizing what number of insecure males there are on the market.. so grateful I married the exact opposite.
Beloved final evening,” Stafford wrote, together with a photograph that featured her and the Tremendous Bowl champ taking in a Chris Stapleton live performance with their arms wrapped round one another.
The live performance befell at The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Thursday.
It got here two weeks after she ruffled some feathers when she recalled relationship Stafford’s backup quarterback at Georgia throughout an look on the “Off the Vine” podcast with Kaitlyn Bristowe.
The couple met whereas enrolled at Georgia, the place she was a cheerleader and Stafford was the star quarterback.
They went on to tie the knot in 2015 and share 4 daughters.
“It wasn’t that cute of a relationship at first,” Stafford advised Bristowe of her relationship with Stafford. “I hated him, I beloved him. I dated the backup to piss him off, which labored — he was the dangerous boy too.
“Matthew’s so candy and a Southern gentleman and all that stuff. And the backup was the exact opposite, and it upset him.”
The now-viral clip wasn’t obtained effectively.
Some followers and sports activities media members, together with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, ripped Stafford for publicly sharing the story as a result of they believed it wasn’t favorable towards her husband.
Stafford later addressed the backlash and issued an apology to the household of Joe Cox, a former Georgia QB whom performed alongside Stafford for 3 years in Athens.
Many had assumed Cox, who backed up Stafford for 3 years, was the quarterback in query.
“To this stunning fam…,” she wrote in a publish on her Instagram Story, together with a photograph of Cox and his household. “I’m sorry for the media storm that occurred final week that made its manner into your lives. You had ZERO involvement in what I spoke about and in reality, it was y’alls relationship in school that I regarded as much as and wished for me and Matthew. You had been the couple that everybody thinks Matthew and I used to be.. y’all had been the UGA QB and cheerleader that met and by no means let go. I really like y’all.”