Kelly Stafford Reveals the Toughest Part of Watching Quarterback Husband Matthew Stafford Play Football

Kelly Stafford has always been husband Matthew Stafford’s top cheerleader. But, The Morning After podcast cohost admitted to E! News, it can be tough to watch the L.A. Rams’ quarterback on the turf.

For Kelly Stafford, watching husband Matthew Stafford lead the Los Angeles Rams isn’t exactly fun and games.

While she loves cheering on her quarterback (and, she acknowledges, “They get paid ridiculously—we all know this”), every time the 36-year-old athlete gets sacked, her heart sinks.

“It’s not the easiest watching this sport,” The Morning After podcast host admitted in an exclusive interview with E! News. “Especially when you have a loved one on the field.”

She’s accepted that, say, a shoulder separation or a tailbone fracture are all part of the game. “I’m like, ‘Okay, you broke something, whatever. We’ll figure it out,'” she said. However, continued the 35-year-old, “I worry about the head because it’s the one [injury] people push through and they shouldn’t.”

And while she recognizes the league is trying to come up with a game plan to prevent such head injuries, she still worries.

“You take more hits the longer you play,” she noted. “And he’s on year 16. So that is very heavy on my heart every time I go to the game. It’s part of the reason why I get so nervous.” And she’s not the only one on her squad who winces each time No. 9 takes a dive.

With 7-year-old twins Sawyer and Chandler at most games, along with younger sisters Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4, “My two older ones have really started to notice when Daddy’s slow to get up after getting hit,” Kelly revealed. “One of my oldest asked last year if he had to play again because he’d gotten hit a bunch one game. And I think that really sat with him.”