INGLEWOOD, Calif. -- IT made sense that Matthew Stafford's first party as a Super Bowl champion was at a private airport, considering that 13 months ago he left for a family vacation in Cabo as a Detroit Lion and flew on a private jet to L.A. a few days later as a Los Angeles Ram. It also made sense that he took a detour on his way there. After he left SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday night, Stafford and his family stopped first for dinner with Cooper Kupp and his family.
That's him: He will always pick a small private room at a restaurant with his wife and some friends and some beers and laughs over a big celebration, and this one filled not only an entire airplane hangar but also part of a runway, planes sometimes landing a little too close to the assembled crowd.