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Michele Tafoya Confirms Departure From NBC Sports, Sunday Night Football
Michele Tafoya declared Tuesday that her last Sunday Night Football broadcast will be Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 13. 메이저사이트

MINNEAPOLIS - Award-winning games correspondent Michele Tafoya says she's formally leaving NBC Sports in the wake of showing up uninvolved one final time for Super Bowl LVI.

Tafoya, who calls Minnesota home, said on a phone call with correspondents Tuesday that the choice to leave the organization and the sidelines was completely hers and has been underway for several years.

"My experience with NBC Sports has been the most fulfilling of my vocation. I've had the favorable luck of working together with a group that is among awesome at how they treat, the help I've gotten in this position has been unmatched," Tafoya said in an assertion.

Tayfoya started her games profession in 1993, and in 2011 took on a conspicuous sidelines presence with NBC Sports and Sunday Night Football. She's won four Emmy Awards for sports announcing and as of Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 13, will take care of 327 games - the most public early evening TV games, both normal and preseason - by a NFL sideline correspondent.

In 2020, Tafoya talked with KARE 11 with regards to her very long term vocation covering an expansive scope of sports for NBC, and offered a solid directive for ladies in the games broadcasting industry and then some.

"Try not to consider yourself a lady contending with men. Consider yourself a human contending with people. Since that is the thing you are," she said in 2020. "You're as qualified for any work, anyplace, as anybody."

Tafoya originally came to Minnesota via neighborhood sports live radio broadcast KFAN-AM, the place where she was a host and sideline columnist for the Minnesota Vikings from 1994-1998. She additionally worked Minnesota Timberwolves games and was an in depth pundit for Big Ten ladies' ball and volleyball.

In 1995, Tafoya advanced toward WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, where she functioned as sports correspondent and anchor.

Tafoya said in Tuesday's phone call that she will keep on living in Minnesota with her significant other and two youngsters, yet she isn't exactly certain what she'll do straightaway.

"Some might think of me as insane to leave one of the more pined for jobs in sports TV, and I don't question that I will miss numerous parts of the gig," an assertion from Tafoya said. "Be that as it may, for quite a while, I have been thinking about different regions I might want to investigate both actually and expertly. I was unable to overlook that little voice any longer after what we have all suffered throughout the most recent couple of years."

This will be Tafoya's fifth time announcing from the Super Bowl.

"There could be no more excellent method for leaving covering the NFL than with another Super Bowl!" she said.