Michele Tafoya, who worked her final game for NBC on the sidelines of Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI, is leaving sports journalism altogether to join the campaign of Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls
that she would appear on shows that discuss politics, cultural and social issues, as well as attend CPAC later this month, adding that it was her decision to exit NBC. “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 told the website. She said that in herrole she was “not as free to be as vocal about world events that I’m concerned about. It’s not because I was told to shut up.
Tafoya, who lives in the Twin Cities suburb of Edina after growing up in Manhattan Beach, CA, officially announced her exit from NBC and her role on its flagshipshow in January, had been with the network since 2011.
At the end of Sunday’s broadcast, Tafoya blew a kiss at the camera after short back and forth with NBC play-by-play announcer Al Michaels, who told her “We love you – you’ve been so much fun.”
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