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NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya is leaving her position as a top NFL sideline
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Her last game with the network was Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, where the Los
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Tafoya is leaving sports behind to join Kendall Qualls as the co-chairwoman of
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appreciate her taking time from her busy schedule to help our campaign lead
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The 57-year-old Tafoya said in a statement that she was “taking a step back from
the sports broadcasting world” and was “honored that my next phase involves
supporting Kendall in his run for Governor of Minnesota.”

“Kendall has a clear message that resonates with the issues Minnesotans are
facing under the current administration,” she said. “He’s smart and with his
background and work ethic, I’m positive that he’s exactly what Minnesota needs
in its next governor.”

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Qualls is an Army veteran and businessman who ran unsuccessfully as the
Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 3rd District in 2020.

Tafoya talked about joining his campaign in an interview with former Fox News
host Megyn Kelly posted to YouTube on Monday.

“I am co-chair now of the Kendall Qualls for governor campaign in Minnesota,
where I’ve lived for 25-plus years,” she said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.”

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“I’ve been asked to run for governor, Megyn, but this is not the right time,”
Tafoya continued. “I have two kids that are in high school and junior high. I
want to see — I’ve missed so much. So I want to devote some time to my family,
certainly, my husband included.

“But I am willing to step up for this gentleman, Kendall Qualls, and say, ‘We
need a change in leadership. We need sensible, reasonable people.'”

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She said, “I wake up every single morning, every morning, and there is a tug at
my chest, and that tug is telling me, ‘Michelle, you have to help. Somehow,
you’ve got to help.’ And I can’t do that in this role as a sideline reporter.”




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Along with co-chairing Qualls’ gubernatorial campaign, Tafoya also is scheduled
to appear at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida,
later this month.

Tafoya has been on the sideline of more than 320 NFL games, including five Super
Bowls, The Hill reported.

She provided a glimpse of her political views last year when she talked about
former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick on ABC’s “The View.”

Tafoya clashed with “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin over comments that
Kaepernick made comparing the NFL’s draft and training camps to slavery.

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“I thought comparing it to the slave trade was a little rough. … These guys
enter willingly. They are the most well-cared-for people. Yes, they play a hard
sport, and every one of them — black, white, Latino, whoever’s playing the sport
— will tell you how much they love it and they’re willing to do it and they make
a damn good living,” she said.





Hostin countered that it was “not totally unreasonable” to compare the NFL draft
to slavery and said the league’s white team owners were keeping Kaepernick from
playing again.

Tafoya fired back, “If they believed he could win them a Super Bowl, he would be
on a team right now. I promise you that.”

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After her comments on “The View,” she was not on the sidelines of “Sunday Night
Football” for a few weeks, leaving some to wonder whether she had been
suspended.

NBC, however, said it was giving its announcers bye weeks and that any other
speculation about why she has several weeks away was “blatantly false,” Fox News
reported.

Tafoya was given a warm goodbye after the Super Bowl from legendary announcer Al
Michaels, who also is likely leaving NBC Sports, the New York Post reported.

“We love you,” Michaels told her. “You’ve been so much fun.”

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Tafoya then blew a kiss to the camera.

Her decision to leave sports reporting has been in the works for some time, she
told Richard Deitsch at The Athletic.

“This is absolutely my decision,” Tafoya said. “I gave [NBC] my notice three
years ago hoping to be done earlier.”

“I got to a point in my life where I wanted to try other things, and there are
some things that are really important to me,” she said. “This is not to say that
sports isn’t an important field, that my job isn’t an important job. But in my
position, I was not as free to be as vocal about world events that I’m concerned
about.

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“It’s not because I was told to shut up. I want to be very clear about that. But
look, if you’re on a show like ‘Sunday Night Football,’ which is the No. 1 show
in prime time for 11 straight years, unprecedented, the last thing they want to
do is invite controversy.”


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