LA Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford’s daughters hospitalized before NFL playoff game
Matthew Stafford and his family’s trip to Arizona for the NFL’s Wild Card playoff weekend took a turn for the worse Saturday night.
Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams will face the Minnesota Vikings at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, after the wildfires that devastated the City of Angels this week forced the NFL to move the showdown from SoFi Stadium.
However, Kelly Stafford, the quarterback’s wife, revealed that their weekend took another terrifying turn.
Kelly, who shares seven-year-old twins Sawyer and Chandler, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4, with the former Super Bowl winner, revealed she and her daughters had to be taken to hospital.
The mother of four shared a photo to her Instagram Story of two of their daughters lying in a hospital bed.
“Last night was long,” she captioned the photo. “Back in bed and asleep, everyone except Hunter. It feels like she’s had a Celsius drink.’
Matthew Stafford’s daughters were hospitalized after making the trip to Arizona this weekend
The quarterback’s wife, Kelly, shared a photo of two of their daughters in a hospital bed
“Before that,” she later noted in a follow-up post, “it was all smiles joining Dad on his work trip.”
While the former college cheerleader did not share more details about her daughters’ hospitalization, she did suggest that the need for medical care stemmed from an illness the family had suffered over the past week.
‘Found our nice place in AZ. I promise we’re happy, but still [ill]Kelly assured in another post, shared on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier this week, Kelly had suggested that she and her daughters might move out of their family home to protect her husband from the disease as the playoffs approach.
“I can’t think straight, I think I have the flu right now,” she said on the Jan. 7 episode of her Morning After podcast. “Two of my daughters have the flu.”
She also revealed that she felt like she couldn’t move while attending the Rams game against the Seattle Seahawks last weekend.
“I passed out on a couch in the suite,” she explained. “We had all our friends in town and I was a real downer. Body pain is serious.”
“If all my kids have the flu, I don’t think we should be in this house with him,” she added, speaking of the signal caller.
The mother of four later suggested she and her children had been battling an illness
The Rams’ playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings was moved to State Farm Stadium
Wildfires in Los Angeles forced the league to move Monday’s Wild Card game
The Rams’ playoff game was moved from Los Angeles to Arizona after the league took action amid the tragedy that unfolded in the California city.
Deadly fires ripped through the upscale enclave of Pacific Palisades and quickly spread through the City of Angels, killing five and displacing thousands this week.
As heroic firefighters battle hellish conditions in a battle to contain at least five separate fires – the largest two of which span 27,000 hectares – neighborhoods have been reduced to ash and rubble.
Kelly, who lives with Stafford and their daughters in Hidden Hills, shared a heartbreaking message on social media.
“These fires are truly terrifying. Praying for all the firefighters and their loved ones,” the mother of four posted on her Instagram Story. ‘Yes, houses and structures are important, but never more important than a life. Please stay safe.”
In another post, she shared a video showing the devastation the fires have left in their wake, writing, “I watch this over and over because it doesn’t seem real.”