Matthew Stafford ’s mother, Margaret , reflected on the moment she met her future daughter-in-law, Kelly , for the first time. “I remember it was after the awards banquet, I think,” Margaret said on the Thursday, November 7 episode of Kelly Stafford’s “The Morning After” podcast. “You were at the bar.
She was adorable.” The big introduction was made while Kelly and Matthew were both students at the University of Georgia — Matthew was a star quarterback and Kelly was on the cheerleading squad. Margaret recalled Kelly being “tomboyish, but fun,” and knew meeting Matthew’s girlfriend was a big deal.
“I knew you all had been dating and it was like, ‘I want you to meet Kelly,’” Margaret remembered her son telling her. “I knew that he was interested in her and liked her a lot. I just hadn’t met her.
” Margaret was cool, calm and collected about the meeting, but the same couldn’t be said about Kelly. “I was terrified,” Kelly told her. “You are such a presence when you walk in the room.
You’ve got this big, Texas hair. Here I am, I was like, ‘Oh, man.’” Kelly acknowledged that the state of her relationship with Matthew at the time made things a bit unpredictable.
“In this moment, yes we were dating,” she said, “but I didn’t know what our future held.” She added, “I told my parents, ‘I just don’t know, I don’t know if she liked me.’” Luckily, Margaret did, which came in handy when Kelly and Matthew got married .
