Record-Setting Tafoya to End NBC Run at the Super Bowl

Last week, NBC announced that Michele Tafoya will work her final Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13th. With a record four Sports Emmys for Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Reporter and the only person to be a finalist every year since the award’s inception in 2011, Tafoya will have done 327 games as an NFL sideline reporter, the most national primetime TV games (regular and postseason) for someone in that role. As the one doing the interviews, Tafoya isn’t used to being the interviewee as she was on an NBC Sports conference call. Executive producer Fred Gaudelli explains why he thinks she’s the best sideline reporter the NFL has had. Tafoya talks about her connection to Minnesota, some of her favorite moments, her stint on “The View,” and the importance of working a Super Bowl less than 10 miles from where she was raised by her mom, who asks her daughter when she plans to visit.

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