Kelly Stafford Claims She And Her Children Were Booed By Lions Fans Throughout The Rams Wild Card Loss In Detroit
Kelly Stafford has a special place in her heart for the Detroit Lions — but not for the fans who heckled her children.
“It’s sports. The city wants to win. Everything is fair game … excerpt the fans who booed my children,” Kelly, 34, wrote via her Instagram Story on Monday, January 15, in response to a fan who didn’t understand why she was being so positive towards the Lions following the game. “Other than that I loved the atmosphere and the booing gave my husband more fire. The more you love, the more you hate. I consider it all love going both ways.”
Is it fair to boo the families of the opposing team? That's been a hot topic at Barstool before. You might recall when Barstool Smitty personally threw batteries at Willie Colon's sick mother. That's clearly unacceptable behavior. Although to be fair to Smitty, it's not like his mom was wearing a sign that said "I have lupus" or anything like that. But still, not the best look for him.
To me you have to take every situation on a case by case basis. If you're throwing batteries at an opposing fan, if you're throwing anything for that matter, you've probably taken it too far. If you're angrily screaming the word 'cunt' in the face of a bench warmers younger sister, that's probably not cool either. But if the wife of the opposing team's starting quarterback is walking along the sideline. A wife who actively wants to be in the spotlight (has a podcast, 430k Instagram followers, etc.) and you give her a casual boo-ing, I feel like that's fair game. To me that's all in good fun. Just a little bit of gamesmenship between opposing fans. The video of Kelly Stafford with her children appears to be closer to the latter.
Obviously you can't hear everything that was said to Kelly and her kids as they walked along the sidelines, but that didn't seem too bad right? The "rivalry" between the Detroit Lions and Matthew Stafford is up there with the most wholesome no-bad-blood rivalry in the history of sports. Nobody in Detroit dislikes Matthew Stafford, and Stafford has no bad blood with Detroit. But you're playing each other in a playoff game, especially considering the Lions hadn't won a playoff game in 32 years, the fans are going to be passionate. If you're walking across the field in a Rams jersey, and you're a public figure like Kelliy Stafford, of course you're gonna get some boos. Whether you have your kids with you or not. So the headlines and tweets that read like this one seem a little excessive.
Maybe it was a bit worse than just a few boos. Nobody knows except the people who were there. Maybe Detroit Don did let a 'cunt' fly. But any situation where you're surrounded by tens of thousands of football fans, there will probably be a few people who take things a little too far. You have to know that's coming though. It's not an indictment on Lions fans. That's football fans everywhere. Can you imagine what Eagles fans would have been like? Smitty would have put a D-Battery through her skull.
I don't want to just say something like, "She got exactly what she was looking for, now she's got something to talk about for her podcast". But like…. it is something for her to talk about for her podcast. She is in the headlines now. Considering nobody got hurt, and her kids are perfectly fine, that's kind of the best case scenario for her. Now she gets to be the one to take the moral high ground and cheer for the Lions moving forward.
And she even kind of walked back her claim since her orginal quote got out.
Overall not a bad week for Kelly if you ask me. She even gets the John Rich bump as a nice little cherry on top.