From NFL to Congress…?
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jay Feely helped Michigan win a football National Championship in 1997. He’s played over a decade in the NFL. He carved out a broadcasting career with CBS. Now he’s running for Congress. Why? He explains all to Michele. 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 | You know, I was a kicker coming off the field, thinking about broadcasting. They gave me the chance to be up in the booth, which I was only the second kicker ever after Pat Summerall to do that. So incredibly grateful for that opportunity. A lot of people there that I had great friendships with. But at the same time, I always knew I had to be kind of muted. And, you know, my wife could see that in me on a daily |
| 0:21.1 | basis, the struggle, like, I'd want to comment on political issues, but knowing that I was conservative and I was going to have a conservative bet. And when I did do that, or I posted a picture with Donald Trump, especially when I had to do with Trump, I'd get called into the principal's office, you know, and they call and talk to me. |
| 0:38.4 | And, you know, my feeling'd call and talk to me. |
| 0:38.6 | And, you know, my feeling always was, hey, if you look over here, you look at this person's Twitter, or you look at this person's interview, if they're advocating for liberal policies, you don't have any issue with that. So don't come to me and tell me that I can't do it in a very respectful way and advocate for conservative issues. So I think that kind of, that just permeates all the media |
| 0:57.9 | right now. me that I can't do it in a very respectful way and advocate for conservative issues. |
| 0:54.8 | So I think that kind of, that just permeates all the media right now. |
| 0:59.2 | And that's why you see such a different message when it comes to Trump. |
| 1:03.2 | It's not an equal, hey, let's look at what he's doing, let's look at his policies and |
| 1:08.1 | tell the American people about them. |
| 1:10.0 | No, it's a slant where we need to present him |
| 1:12.4 | in a negative life. Jay Feeley, former NFL kicker, former NFL broadcaster, took a leap |
| 1:24.0 | tinned into politics. We're going to talk to them all about it. |
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| 1:43.3 | So Jay Feeley is running for Arizona's fifth congressional district, currently held by Andy Biggs, |
| 1:50.8 | who is leaving that seat to run for governor of Arizona. |
| 1:53.6 | So this is a very interesting time. |
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