A small sample from the 30 or so memories from Detroit she posted on her instagram today.
Once you let the cynicism die, this family truly bought into Detroit. We’ve had big time players here who feigned interest but rented and never bought. And remember, they just donated a few million a couple weeks ago, with more on the way.
The Stafford’s love and miss Detroit.
Bittersweet week for them, I’m sure.
This whole thing is a mess for me.
Not because I don’t want a Lions win and For Goff to get revenge, but because if the Lions can’t win it, I naturally want Stafford to win.
But not this way!!!
I will always be a stafford fan but I’m 100% lions when we play him. But nothing fake about the Staffords and the love for the D.
Say it with me folks
I am a Lions Fan
We are in the playoffs
Must win
■■■■ Matt Stafford
I didn’t say I want Stafford to win. I want him to lose. But if he wins, I want him to do well after that, I just didn’t want it to be like that.
I could never say ■■■■ Matt Stafford, but he definitely understands why so many who loved him in Detroit want him to lose this game.
You gotta say it man
■■■■ Matt Stafford
You can apologize on Monday to him as he is sitting on his couch
Is that first one Rams Stafford after the Super Bowl win hugging Lions Stafford. Yikes, that one does bring the feelsies.
Time for Goff payback
Right on JMAN
For the next 6 days…
■■■■ that guy
The medical care Kelly got here and the way the city rallied around her and embraced the Staffords will forever outweigh the gravity of football and it will never be close. Everything you said in the OP is spot on.
I don’t think this is hard.
I appreciate what Matt Stafford was here in Detroit. He’ll forever be a Lion.
I also appreciate Kelly, her spirit and what she’s overcome.
But the day for really embracing them as “Forever Detroit” is not upon us. That relationship is on hiatus for as long as he wears another uniform.
It’s not complicated. Stafford is the last best QB from a 60 year legacy of failure. The same legacy that claimed the spirit of Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson.
This is a new day. This is a new legacy. This is the team we support and cheer on.
I’d been called a wife (among other things) and I still have his jersey hanging in the man-cave. But the fondness for the QB he was here is as easily boxed away as this year’s Christmas decorations.
No one is saying we don’t want to win,
But you cannot appreciate an incredible storyline without acknowledging reality.
They raised their kids here.
She battled brain cancer here.
They continue to invest in a city most either laugh at or mock openly.
Stafford is always welcome back in Detroit, unless he knocks the Lions out of the playoffs next week. Fans won’t feel the same. It has been too long since a playoff victory.
Well, the Lions are gonna win. I’m sure there’s no other team Matt would want to lose to
It used to be FTP, but we exorcised that demon this year.
For the past couple weeks, its been:
FTC
FBA
Now, I hate to say it, but this week its:
FMS, FSM
and FTR
disclaimer: Matt is a good guy. But McVay is not…
I will cheer hard when they decide to bench Matt because the lions are up.
I understand you just want us to win and be done with it-but F Matt Stafford? no. No matter what I can not hate him -nor do I feel some sort of way about him, I wish Matt great success. no matter where he is or what he does-and if and when we do beat him? I’m sure he would be happy and excited for The Lions as well then go on focusing on his life and responsibilities both on and off the field.
You are 100% correct
God bless them
I love Matt and his family
But I will boo him when he runs on the field.
I hope the rest of the stadium does too
And I hope Matt appreciates that
It’s the love and passion the city has for its own
For the next week
■■■■ Matt Stafford
