When your due date doesn’t care about football season with guest Emma Kelly
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Emma Kelly, wife of Vikings center Ryan Kelly, opens up about the hardest parts of NFL life nobody talks about. Emma wanted to share her story about losing their daughter Mary Kate at 20 weeks and delivering two-pound twins in a different state. She's getting real about her birth trauma, NICU life, the loneliness of being an NFL wife, why people need to stop saying "just relax," and how her surprise third pregnancy brought healing. This one will make you cry and realize how much strength it takes behind the scenes.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club podcast, a podcast all about sports told by a woman. |
| 0:09.0 | And that woman is me. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Alison Cooch, as always. |
| 0:12.8 | And today I'm joined by a special guest, Emma Kelly. |
| 0:18.6 | So you are a maternal health advocate, mother and wife, of Vikings Center Ryan Kelly. |
| 0:25.6 | You're a boss-ass bitch. And I'm so excited to have you here. |
| 0:28.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:29.7 | We go kind of like back. |
| 0:32.2 | We're quite a few years. |
| 0:33.7 | We're like OG, girlies. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah. So actually I met Emma for the first time when Isaac was playing for the Colts because you guys were with the Colts for how long? |
| 0:43.0 | 100 years. |
| 0:44.5 | I feel like you age and dog years in the NFL. |
| 0:47.1 | So like that was so that he's in his 10th year right now, which literally feels like 100. |
| 0:52.6 | What was that four or five years for you? |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah. And look at how different our lives are as we sit here. |
| 0:59.1 | We both, you were pregnant at the time. We both now have, well, I have a child. You have multiple |
| 1:05.9 | children. And so I feel like life looks so different. And now he's not even with the Colts anymore. No. So how are you doing? Who would have thought? You moved your entire family, three kids, a dog, a husband, all to Minnesota. So how are you acclimating? By my damn self. Jesus God. By my damn self. I feel like these are the things that we don't get to talk to in the NFL. |
| 1:29.4 | And I'm like so exciting that you're highlighting it because like obviously there's so many opportunities, right? |
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