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Las Vegas Raiders punter AJ Cole and his spouse, professional volleyball participant Kylie Cole, have been collectively for seven years — simply don’t name her a “WAG.”
“I do know it’s meant to only shorten ‘wives and girlfriends’ as a result of it’s quite a lot of syllables [and] I get it,” Kylie, 28, mentioned on the Sunday, October 6, episode of the “Sunday Sports activities Membership” podcast. “However, I can’t take it critically, like, I’m not going to [say], like, ‘I’m a WAG.’ Simply know if I’m ever utilizing the phrase ‘WAG’ in any respect, I’m not being severe.”
Kylie was talking about life within the NFL with podcast host Allison Kuch, whose husband Isaac Rochell performed for the Raiders final season earlier than being launched in late 2023. The 2 ladies additional revealed that almost all NFL companions all through the league don’t ever introduce themselves as a “WAG.”
“[It] doesn’t seek advice from the group of women, like, we’re like, ‘We’re the wives and the girlfriends,’” Kylie defined, “Or, ‘We’re the ladies of the Raiders,’ that’s often what I say. Yesterday we had the Raiders ladies’s brunch, and in order that’s what I’m going to name it — not the ‘WAGs brunch.’ I simply can’t. It’s simply so tacky.”
AJ, 28, and Kylie, an expert athlete herself, received married in March 2023. They’ve been collectively since 2017, initially assembly as college students at North Carolina State College.
AJ has performed his total profession with the Raiders, first signing with the previously Oakland, California-based group in 2019. The following yr, the group relocated to Las Vegas. Throughout that point and past, Kylie turned tight with the opposite athletes’ members of the family.
“We now have a bit group proper now that’s making an attempt to get collectively and determine [a time] to look at Gilmore Ladies collectively because it’s fall,” Kylie gushed. “Ladies will go take exercise courses, do dinners [and] we simply went to the Pink live performance altogether. The Raiders really set that up. They put us all in a field and we went to the live performance collectively. There’s quite a lot of enjoyable stuff, and this yr particularly, I don’t know what about it’s totally different however women are consistently, like, taking pictures stuff out within the group chat.”
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As probably the most skilled Raiders’ wives, Kylie usually fields quite a lot of “questions” from newer members. Moreover, group dynamics are sometimes altering as soccer rosters evolve all through the season. With varied cuts and strikes, meaning the NFL companions have to depart their pals behind.
“It’s by no means enjoyable as a result of on the ladies’s aspect of it, you make these pals, you meet their children, you watch their children develop up after which, impulsively, they’re gone for contractual causes,” Kylie mentioned. “Regardless of the case could also be, it sucks as a result of it feels such as you’ve received to begin over and the older I get — which is humorous, I’m solely 28, however in soccer years I’m, like, the previous lady on the group.”