(Liberty Bell) – Popular NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya has made the decision to leave her position as a top NFL sideline reporter to take on a political job. Her last game was Super Bowl LVI on Sunday during which the Los Angeles Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20.
Tafoya is leaving her successful career in sports behind to join Kendall Qualls as he works to become the next governor of Minnesota, where Tafoya has lived for over two decades. Tafoya will serve as the co-chairwoman of Qualls’ campaign.
Qualls, an army veteran and businessman, announced the move on Monday in a news release, saying that he has been “fortunate to get to know Michele on a deeper level and appreciate her taking time from her busy schedule to help our campaign lead Minnesota in the right direction.”
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.”
The pre-game report by Michele Tafoya – Aaron Donald may consider retiring if the #Rams win the Super Bowl. pic.twitter.com/zS1TGGrkUu
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) February 13, 2022
🚨 BIG Announcement 🚨 Sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya will be joining my campaign as co-chairwoman! I’m excited to work with Michele & hope you’ll join us as we focus on saving Minnesota https://t.co/3gBUoJF9yv
— Kendall for Governor (@KQforMN) February 14, 2022
As she exits NFL sideline reporting, veteran NBC broadcaster Michele Tafoya is jumping deeper into Minnesota politics. #mngov candidate @KQforMN announced her this morning as his campaign co-chair.
Already rumblings she'll run for something in coming years. pic.twitter.com/MWIPBIbv0j
— Brian Bakst (@Stowydad) February 14, 2022
Qualls unsuccessfully ran as the Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 3rd District in 2020.
Tafoya discussed the timing of her decision to join the campaign and leave the sports world with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly in an interview on The Megyn Kelly Show posted to YouTube 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.
“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.’”
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.”
Unlike unhinged liberals, Tafoya stuck to doing her job as a reporter on the sidelines and refrained from giving political commentary. No one would have ever known her political affiliation because she’s a good reporter.
Now that she is no longer working with NBC, Tafoya is also set to appear at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, later this month. During her interview with Kelly she explained that she felt a physical “tugging” to get more involved and do more that she could no longer ignore.
Thank you, Michele Tafoya, for being the gold standard in our industry, man or woman.
You may be stepping away from the sideline, but you have opened the door for so many, and shown all of us how to do it right. No gimmicks. Sheer intellect, passion and integrity. Always. 🙏
— Bonnie Bernstein (@BonnieBernstein) February 14, 2022
She was given a touching goodbye after the conclusion of the Super Bowl on Sunday from legendary announcer Al Michaels, who is also likely to be leaving NBC Sports, according to the New York Post.
“We love you,” Michaels told her. “You’ve been so much fun.”
Tafoya then blew a kiss to the camera.
The next chapter has been in the works for some time, according to Tafoya. She told Richard Deitsch of 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.
“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.”
Weird, no one seems to have told the NFL that. They’ve been inviting controversy since 2020 now. Tafoya is right though. Sports and politics should be kept separate.
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I am begining to see some of the Pentagon’s recent “accounting errors”, because Patriot missile systems deployed around Russia when Trump was first elected are being reported to have been requested by those countries after it was reported that they were already deployed.
That really should not come as a surprise since there were $21 trillion in Pentagon “accounting errors” between 1998 and 2016!
Internet searches regarding the issue do not even reveal what I am searching for in most cases, for example, blankets and pillows being sent are revealed, so unless they plan on havng a slumber party and a pillow fight, it just looks like the algo controllers are trying to intentionally conceal these things!
Andrea Iravani
The Ugly Pacifism that Destroyed Humanity
Michel Chossudovsky’s pacifism, and others in the survellance/gestapo/kleptoquack organized crime ring have destroyed humanity entirely.
Michel Chossudovsky is a pacifist and has refused to publicly hold accountable anyone other than an extremely small group of individuals over the fake pandemic brought on by the fake virus.
Michel Chossudovsky’s mission is self-evident, to continue to save the guilty murderous, narcissistic megalomaniacs that are directly responsible for the world’s worst crimes against humanity by giving them narcissistic supply on his website in a super-man complex scam that continue to put forth blatant lies and continue to let this murderous rampage to take place.
This should not really be all that surprising considering that Chossudovsky was an economic consultant to the WEF, the UN, and the W.H.O. and several nation states that are in lock step with the fake pandemic narrative.
It appears that Chossudovsky is the ring leader in all of this, to be perfectly honest, the same way that the FBI and police illeagally entrap people to commit acts of terrorism.
Michel Chossudovsky has never criticized the Chinese government on a single occasion because of Omerta apparently. It is certainly not for a lack of things to criticize the Chinese government over!
Michel Chossudovsky wants people to believe that he opposes all of this, yet it was China that started this. That cannot be denied.
Covid-19 does not exist any more than Puff the Magic Dragon exists, but China was the first country to sound alarms and lock down Wuhan over protests from real estate market collapses, waste incinerators, and human rights abuses that they did not want to spill over into the highly televised Chinese New Year parade, and also because of declining exports coinciding with the Chinese real estate market collapse.
Chossudovsky is a typical Brit. Rabidly and venomously anti-American. Chossudovsky keeps blaming America for this. America played a large role in this. To ignore the role that China played in this would be the equivalent of ignoring the role that Adolf Hitler played in the holocaust. China still has a zero tolerance covid policy. This ludicrous psy-op is a Marxist tactic employing an ends justify the means mentality by any means necessary, and Chossudovsky has not publicly denounced China over this policy on a single occasion on his website. Chossudovsky has demonstrated through both his actions and inactions to be of the same mind, that the ends justify the means by any means necessary, which is the same tactic used by Bill Gates and those that continue to push forth this murderous rampage of innocents, and those that refuse to demand that those responsible are prosecuted. The universities around the world played an immense role in all of this. Chossudovsky wants to pacify the scumbags that have insisted on students being injected with poisonous shots. Chossudovsky thinks that these evil, monstrous, narcissistic, megalomaniacal scumbags should not be prosecuted for this policy of forcing students to be injected with these poisonous shots.
All of the teachers and professors in schools should have just quit their jobs when these evil policies were put in place, including masking, testing, and distancing.
The fact that they did not do that shows that they believe that they are more important and valuable to society than the children and students that they teach. They are the foxes guarding the hen house. There is no longer any doubt about that after the fake pandemic. We recall the safe spaces at schools and universities after Trump won the election, as another example of the way that these monsters are using children and students to do their bidding for them. It is obviously a hostage situation. There is obviously not any safe space with these monsters on the loose.
Just yet another reason to oppose unions! The teachers unions and nurses unions are among the most powerful unions in America, and also the AFLCIO. It was the union bosses that were promising a Marxist Utopia to union members, which carried out the bloodiest genocide in world history! The targeted genocide?! Humanity!
The teachers and nurses could have and should have demanded that unions strike when this first started, way before the vaccine roll out ever statrted!
The teachers unions and the nurses unions did the opposite, and demanded lock downs, forced testing, forced masking, and forced social distancing for everyone except BLM, Anti-fa, and Extinction Rebellion.
Andrea Iravani