Just days after she tearfully left her lucrative and high-profile job as sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football, Michele Tafoya appeared on right-wing media networks to show her true colors. There’s a feeling of repugnance, seeing Tafoya’s recent comments contrasted with the fact that for years she was smiling in the faces of Black coaches and players to mine them for nuggets of information to make sure she looked good in her job, but we’ll set that aside for now. There’s also a familiar… Source link
Read More »Michele Tafoya entering politics after Super Bowl exit
Michele Tafoya wrapped up her career as an NFL sideline reporter with Sunday’s Super Bowl, saying goodbye after 327 games. We’ve known for a month that Tafoya was leaving, but we didn’t know what she’d be doing next. The only hint she’d given is that she was leaving sports altogether for a totally different gig. On Monday we found out what that gig would be. In an interview with The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch, Tafoya announced that she’s entering politics, and will be co-charing the campaign… Source link
Read More »Michele Tafoya leaving NBC, sidelines after Super Bowl LVI
Michele Tafoya’s time on the sidelines is coming to an end. The longtime “Sunday Night Football” sideline reporter is stepping away from NBC following the Super Bowl next month, the network announced on Tuesday. “My time with NBC Sports has been the most satisfying of my career,” Tafoya said in a statement. “I’ve had the good fortune of collaborating with a team that is amongst the best at what they do, and the support I’ve received in this position has been unparalleled …… Source link
Read More »Michele Tafoya reportedly off sideline after 2021
The NBC “Sunday Night Football” broadcast is reportedly heading for another big change next season. Michele Tafoya reportedly is in her final season as a sideline reporter, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. It is reportedly Tafoya’s decision to walk away. She has served as a sideline reporter on “Sunday Night Football” for 11 seasons. Tafoya has not appeared on the “Sunday Night Football” broadcast in recent weeks, though that has nothing to do with her decision to leave the… Source link
Read More »If it takes a miracle for Trump to stay in office, evangelicals like Michele Bachmann are fine with that
As the inevitability of President Trump’s loss became apparent even to his acolyte Kellyanne Conway in recent days, his supporters increasingly pinned their hopes for a second term on a last-ditch appeal, not to the Supreme Court, but to the one power that can outvote it: God. It has long been an article of faith among right-wing evangelicals that Republicans were the party of God, while Democrats were on, well, the other side, succinctly identified by Franklin Graham as “almost a demonic… Source link
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