Matthew Stafford and his family's trip to Arizona for the NFL wild card playoff weekend took a turn for the worse Saturday night.
Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams are scheduled to face the Minnesota Vikings at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, after the wildfires that devastated the City of Angels this week forced the NFL to move the matchup from SoFi Stadium .
However, Kelly Stafford, the quarterback's wife, revealed that their weekend suffered another terrifying turn of events.
Kelly, who shares 7-year-old twins Sawyer and Chandler, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4, with the former Super Bowl winner, revealed that she and her daughters had to be taken to the hospital.
The mother of four shared a photo on her Instagram Story showing two of her daughters lying in a hospital bed.
“Last night was long,” he wrote alongside the photo. 'Back in bed and sleeping, everyone except Hunter. It feels like I've drunk a degree Celsius.
Matthew Stafford's daughters were hospitalized after making the trip to Arizona this weekend.
The quarterback's wife, Kelly, shared a photo of two of their daughters in a hospital bed.
“Though before that,” she later noted in a follow-up post, “they were all smiles accompanying Dad on his work trip.”
While the former college cheerleader did not share more details about her daughters' hospitalization, she did suggest that the need for medical attention was due to an illness the family had been suffering from for the past week.
'I found our happy place in AZ. I promise we are happy, just still (sick),' Kelly said in another post, shared on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier this week, Kelly had suggested that she and her daughters might move out of the family home to protect her husband from illness ahead of the playoffs.
“I can't think straight, I currently think I have the flu,” he said on the Jan. 7 episode of his Morning After podcast. “Two of my daughters have the flu.”
He also revealed that he felt like he couldn't move while attending the Rams' game against the Seattle Seahawks last weekend.
“I passed out on a small bench in the suite,” he explained. 'We had all our friends in town and I was a real disappointment. The body pains are serious.
“If all my children have the flu, I don't think we should be in this house with him,” he added, referring to the interlocutor.
The mother of four later suggested that she and her children had been battling an illness.
The Rams' playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings was moved to State Farm Stadium.
Wildfires in Los Angeles forced league to relocate Monday's wild-card game
The Rams' playoff game was moved from Los Angeles to Arizona after the league was forced into action amid the tragedy unfolding in the Californian city.
Deadly fires tore through the luxurious enclave of Pacific Palisades and quickly spread through the City of Angels, killing five people and displacing thousands this week.
As heroic firefighters battle hellish conditions in a fight to contain at least five different fires (the two largest cover 27,000 acres), neighborhoods have been reduced to ashes and rubble.
Kelly, who resides in Hidden Hills with Stafford and their daughters, took to social media to share a heartbreaking message.
'These fires are really scary. Praying for all firefighters and their loved ones,” the mother of four posted on her Instagram Story. 'Yes, homes and structures are important, but never more important than a life. Please stay safe.'
In another post, she shared a video showing the devastation the fires have left in their wake, writing, “I watch this over and over again because it doesn't seem real.”