Kelly Stafford isn’t ready to start talking about Christmas yet, so she’s turned into the Scrooge of her own household.
“I’m getting so many questions about Santa already,” Kelly, 35, said on the Tuesday, November 26 episode of her “The Morning After” podcast. “You’re only seven! It’s pissing me off.”
Kelly and her husband, Matthew Stafford, quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams, share four daughters: twins Chandler and Sawyer, 7, Hunter, 6 and Tyler, 4.
“Why can’t you ask about Thanksgiving?” Kelly continued. “Ask about the pilgrims!”
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Though Kelly noted with a laugh, “Let’s not get into that.”
Kelly has a very specific history with Thanksgiving given the fact that her husband played on the holiday every year he was quarterback for the Detroit Lions from 2009 to 2020. The Lions have hosted a home game on Thanksgiving every year since 1934, except for a stretch when games were paused from 1939 to 1944 during World War II.
The Lions play the Chicago Bears on Thanksgiving this year – with the Dallas Cowboys hosting the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins traveling to face the Green Bay Packers later in the day.
“We would wake up, go to the game, watch the game and then come home and eat Thanksgiving dinner,” Kelly recalled of her time in Detroit.
Kelly has fond memories of those years, many of which came before she and Matthew had any kids. But she acknowledged it wasn’t always a walk in the park.
“Honestly, I loved it,” Kelly said. “The only thing I didn’t love — man, hosting Thanksgiving for 12 years straight was exhausting.”
She continued, “We always had family in for it, but sometimes I would love just to go to someone else’s house and to not have to clean up.”
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While the holidays are stressful no matter what, Kelly acknowledged that she leans on the family’s personal chef, Chris Donaldson, to actually prepare the Thanksgiving meal.
“Y’all know I’m not a chef,” she said. “I don’t cook.”
Although Kelly did note she makes an “Oreo-like dessert” every year passed down from her grandmother, Winnie.
“It’s very, very easy,” Kelly said with a laugh. “It’s got, like, four ingredients. But we crush it. Everyone loves it. The kids love it. The adults love it. It’s good. That is my Thanksgiving tradition.”
The Stafford family gets Thanksgiving off this year, as the Rams return to action Sunday, December 1 against the New Orleans Saints.