While the Rams Super Bowl parade was a celebratory occasion, an unfortunate incident shadowed the day.
NFL photographer Kelly Smiley fell off the stage at the event, fracturing her spine, right in front of Matthew and Kelly Stafford. Matthew walked away immediately instead of helping Smiley, something Kelly Stafford said he regrets doing.
“We didn’t know any of that until way past it. I know Matthew wishes he could take that reaction back, but if he tried to help…if anyone saw or heard hum that day, he probably wasn’t in the right state of mind to do anything, and could’ve made it worse,” she told Craig Carton and Evan Roberts on WFAN 660 in New York. “It wasn’t the best reaction, but when we got in the car after, he asked me to text the Rams people and make sure she was okay, and the next day was when we tried to figure out a solution.”
