A Mike Wise Surprise
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Sports Journalist and Author Mike Wise and Michele prove you can accept people who strongly disagree with you. After a brief social media spat, the two share a sane conversation. Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator. Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter. Learn More about “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://linktr.ee/micheletafoya Subscribe to “The Michele Tafoya Podcast” here: https://apple.co/3nPW221 Follow Michele on twitter: https://twitter.com/Michele_Tafoya Follow Michele on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realmicheletafoya/ Learn more about the Salem Podcast network: https://salempodcastnetwork.com/
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| 0:00.0 | I came out about this about 10 years ago after Sandusky, and they were trying to honor Joe Pott, Penn State. |
| 0:06.8 | It was a great coach and, you know, deserved all the accolades. |
| 0:12.2 | But I'm of the opinion that if you, you know, you can't be called the leader of men if you can't protect kids. |
| 0:19.1 | And I felt that intrinsically, and I remember being at Sandusky's trial, I never |
| 0:24.7 | admitted, you know, I never came out about my own abuse. And I remember thinking how I just |
| 0:29.2 | wanted to, I just wanted to choke the guy to death. For me, it was, it was a matter of, |
| 0:33.7 | I don't, I didn't want anybody to see that I was destroyed by something that happened to me. |
| 0:39.8 | I didn't want to, I, I, I didn't want to give the person that did that to me the satisfaction that |
| 0:44.1 | they ruined my life. And that, and I think that was a big motivating factor in many ways. |
| 0:50.0 | And the other thing was, you know, the other thing was just the idea of when I came out about it was like, you know, you're always worried about it. You're going to be looked at differently. And of course, I got, I got a letter. I got a letter from a mother of one of the kids who was abused by Sandesky. And it just, I like, she wrote, I'll say this, Michelle, like she wrote in there, I know you wrote this in your article, and I know you believe this, but I just want you to know it's not your fault. |
| 1:19.4 | They didn't get the whole grooming thing. |
| 1:21.6 | Like you talk about nuance and subtleties, how someone talks you into something when, and you don't really know. |
| 1:27.5 | And I was 13. |
| 1:28.5 | I hadn't had an experience with girls. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm just one. |
| 1:31.7 | And all these curious things come into your head. |
| 1:34.5 | And the rest of your life, you're going, you just feel like crap. |
| 1:38.3 | You feel like shit because you think you did something. |
| 1:40.8 | And even though I had written that and I had been past all that, oh my God, |
| 1:44.8 | when she wrote that, I broke down. Like I broke down. I mean, there's tears, there's tears still |
| 1:50.4 | on, you know, on my computer screen from that. Welcome to a brand new episode of the |
| 1:58.2 | Michelle's of Boyd podcast. Please hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. |
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