Taylor Swift's Super Bowl Lix Lix probably does not resonate with the wives and girlfriends of those who play in New Orleans.
While Travis Kelce's pop-stars came on Saturday aboard his private jet, Kansas City spouses and the spouses of the Philadelphia Eagles have spent a chaotic week sailing the biggest sports stage of sports. Ticket requests, promotional events, the demands of family and friends, not to mention the needs of her husband or boyfriend are just some of the duties they imply.
Women are reduced by 'Wags' do not play on Sunday of the Super Bowl, but that does not make the week prior to the game easier for them.
For the winner of the Super Bowl and the three -time NFC Champion Ndamukong Suh, the stress is the same for players and their loved ones, since he remembers his three trips to the great game.
“I think it depends on family dynamics and those different pieces, because people with large families, 90 percent of that, the boys leave their spouses to treat,” said Sky Sports NFL analyst NFL to Dailymail.com. 'Then, their wives and other significant people run with their heads cut with the deal with 50 tickets, 60 tickets, 30 tickets, whatever. '' I have to get you passes. I have to do this. I have to do that. '' '
His wife Katya remembers many more stressors, such as being pregnant with twins during the Super Bowl of the Covid era of 2021 and having young children Kingston and Khari to worry at the Super Bowl LVII a few years later. And then there is the social pressure of being as glamorous as the other support spouses, a very real consideration, according to Katya.
Ndamukong Suh and his wife Katya are seen during their time with the Los Angeles Rams
Suhs are seen with the Lombardi trophy while she was pregnant with the couple's twins
Taylor Swift's Super Bowl experience will be atypical for NFL's wives and girlfriends
“You must make sure you are presenting your spouse in the right light,” he told Dailymail.com. 'I feel quite safe in myself. So I feel quite well with that, but I think there are stressful factors, such as, “what is the outfit?”, Want to make sure you don't use the same as other wives. “
And in case the two Super Bowl teams have similar color schemes, the attire duplication potential instantly doubles.
'Who do we play?' She asked Ndamukong before remembering her Super Bowl LV victory over Chiefs as a Buccaneers member: “Kansas City, right?”
Their bucs and rival bosses had red as their main color, which led to some nervous moments among the love interests of the players before the game in February 2021.
Then there is the footwear, which is an area of force for Katya, a former university basketball star who met Ndamukong at the University of Nebraska.
“I was not competing in the area of the boots and heels,” Katya laughed. “But you are not hitting me and the heat I have in my feet.”
Ndamukong then revealed the source of his family's shoes.
“Especially because we are sponsored by Jordan,” he added to his twins, who were dressed in brand team.
Despite the pressure to look better, Katya says that the families of the players tend to get along, even when the athletes are not necessarily teammates. Ndamukong played with characters like Darius Slay of Philadelphia, Vita Vea de Tampa Bay and the future Free Agent Jameis Winston, and Katya says she is always excited to see their respective wives Jennifer, Alexus and Breeon, regardless of interests.
“I want to say, you want to be moody today, I surely have no energy for that,” Katya said about the possibility of uncomfortable interactions with rival wives. “Honestly, everyone has been really great.”
Katya was pregnant with twins when Ndamukong's burs won the Super Bowl Lv in Tampa
Ndamukong Suh is seen during another exhausting media session before Super Bowl Liii
Ndamukong and Katya Suh ar viewed with the family after the Rams won the NFC six years ago
The biggest trap, he explained, was to administer family expectations around Ndamukong.
Unlike his younger and single teammates, Ndamukong was allowed to stay away from the team's hotel as a member of Los Angeles Rams in the Super Bowl Liii in Atlanta and with the Philadelphia Eagles in Arizona two years ago. In each of those cases, Katya was able to rent an isolated and quiet house for the family away from the emotion of the Super Bowl.
As for 2021, when their Bucs beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Suh was allowed to stay in their own home.
“I do not understand with the NFL, especially in the games at home, why do we stay places where we will not be comfortable and in our area?” Ndamukong asked, referring to the tendency of the teams to house the players in the hotels before the games at home and away. 'I get it on the way …
“But I was very lucky, because I was a veteran and I was close to my coaches and security in my boss, so they never had to worry about me,” he added. “So I was lucky and I had to stay at home.”
Suh (center) spent most of his time with his teammates before his three appearances at the Super Bowl, but nevertheless he was allowed to keep his wife and family instead of being at the hotel
Being in the comfort zone of one is good for players, but it also comes with some inconveniences.
“It's a double -edged sword,” said Ndamukong. 'In a hotel, I can control everything. No one will come to my room, but (at home) these little ones can appear and the family can enter and other things.
Katya instinctively understood how to protect Ndamukong's routines before Super Bowl while handling the expectations of friends and family who simply wanted to spend time with him.
'Find a rent or a situation in which it is super isolated with the main bedroom in a wing, so that everyone else can still enjoy.
“Then I can go to the wing and not have to worry about anything and go to sleep when I want to sleep, because I am very anal about my schedule,” said Ndamukong, who admitted to being stressed before Super Bowls, particularly the first in February 2019.
The owner of a cocktail bar, Kaya, near the house of the Portland family, Katya's organizational and management skills are perfect for the situation.
“I know he likes to have family, food, he likes that routine to be able to take a nap,” he said. 'And I just communicated with the people we come with:' 'This is when our house is available for everyone to come … but we want to let it rest. These are the moments in which he will be here, and let's spend everything and make a good dinner that does such things' ''.
Perhaps the most demanding in the players are all the obligations of the media, starting with the opening night of the Super Bowl.
'Media Day,' Katya recalled, 'That was wild to see that in Atlanta for the first time … I saw it on television … They are exhausted at the end. “
“We are all tired,” Ndamukong agreed.
Ndamukong Suh persecutes Patrick Mahomes during the super bowl's LV in Tampa in 2021
On the morning of the great game, Katya and Ndamukong liked to have a great family breakfast with visiting relatives, but that almost became a catastrophe one year.
The person hired by Katya to cook the food apparently had a night late before the Super Bowl, and with less than an hour for the game of Ndamukong, that chef had not yet arrived.
“I had to call sometimes,” Katya recalls of the nerve moments before the arrival of the chef's arrival. “They apologized a lot and all that.”
The game and its consequences are no less nervous.
In Atlanta in 2019, when Ndamukong's Rams were falling to New England's patriots, he was temptingly close to Katya, who was sitting in a low -level suite.
“He felt as if you could touch it,” he said.
But the euphoria of the moment was tarnished by the result of the game.
'He was devastating,' said Ndamukong about losing in 2019. 'I didn't sleep at all that night. People said: “How do we comfort it?”
Two years later it was a completely different experience. With the 31-9 victory of the Buccaneers over the Chiefs, and Katya eight months pregnant, Ndamukong broke into a crazy race to find his wife before the final weapon.
“I ran towards her because she moved a bit slow,” he said. 'I ran to the elevator and went and got it when the game ended, and then we went out to the field and had the confetti. So that was incredible.
Katya and Ndamukong Suh are seen celebrating the victory of the Bowl LV of the Bucs in 2021
When he lost to the Chiefs as a member of the Eagles in Arizona two years ago, the presence of Kingston and Khari softened the blow considerably.
“We have images of our children in a Super Bowl watching Dad play,” Katya said about 2023. “That's really great.”
Of course, Ndamukong's eagles were dropping a pink, 38-35, so the cheerful image of their children comes with the painful memory of an overwhelming defeat.
“It was not as traumatic as the first (loss of the Super Bowl),” he reluctantly agreed.
Reflecting now in his three experiences of the Super Bowl, Ndamukong is obviously still worried about his two losses.
But by painful such as those memories, they also serve as a reminder of Katya's unwavering support to help him navigate the week to focus his focus on the game itself.
“I think the best of having the wife I have, and it is always uncomfortable to talk about your partner when they are sitting next to you, but she is super, super special and rolls with the blows,” he said.