However, after doing long distance for a bit<\/a>, Stafford asked Kelly to come up to live with him in Detroit.<\/p>\n\u201cWe were dating. To be honest, when he got drafted, I didn\u2019t think we\u2019d last past \u2026 I don\u2019t know, I was hoping, I was hopeful obviously,\u201d Kelly said in an episode of Sunday Sports Club Podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were dating, did the long distance \u2026 He went up to Michigan, I stayed at Georgia, we did long distance, and then kind of got tired of that and he said, \u2018Do you wanna move up here?\u2019 Which was a big move\u2026 there was no ring involved, I was young, I had not finished school,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
However, that was not that. Kelly was a Southern belle. Her family (specifically, her father) didn\u2019t love the idea of her going up to Michigan to commiserate with godless Yanks. But she went anyway, and she found another reason to go to the Great Lake State: a nursing program. Another thing (on top of Stafford) that Georgia didn\u2019t have and Michigan did.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was raised in a Southern home, and my dad was like, \u2018Absolutely not.\u2019 And I kind of just went against what he said,\u201d Kelly said, laughing. \u201cI was like, \u2018Sorry, I\u2019m still gonna go.\u2019 One of the things that pulled me too was, Georgia didn\u2019t have a nursing school, I wanted to be a nurse, there was a school in Michigan, Oakland University, that had a great nursing program.\u201d<\/p>\n
They were together for four or five years before Stafford finally proposed to Kelly. She said that she and her dad had agreed if he hadn\u2019t done it by the summer of 2014, she would have returned to Georgia. As always, Matthew Stafford came in clutch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford had a great time during his three years at the University of Georgia from 2006 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,31,58,32,6,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-draft","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-kelly-stafford","10":"tag-los-angeles-rams","11":"tag-matthew-stafford","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115135992644040291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}