Why I Left Sunday Night Football
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Michele voluntarily left her high profile job covering the NFL. Why? Well, for many reasons. But if she said one of those reasons was China, would you believe her?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to sideline sanity with me, Michelle Tafoya, sponsored by Legacy Precious |
| 0:05.3 | metals. There has never been a better time to invest in precious metals. Go to LegacyPMinvestments.com, |
| 0:12.7 | legacy pminvestments.com. Coming up, if I told you that one of the reasons I left a really amazing job |
| 0:20.5 | in sportscasting was China. |
| 0:24.0 | Would you believe me? |
| 0:27.4 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 0:32.1 | She started very young. |
| 0:33.4 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 0:39.3 | And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose of sanity. |
| 0:48.7 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet earth Michelle to foyer. |
| 1:00.5 | All right, glad you joined us on sideline sanity today. Yes, I teased you there by saying one of the reasons I left my job. |
| 1:07.6 | For those of you that don't know, I was the sideline reporter on Sunday night football |
| 1:11.6 | for many, many years, and before that, Monday night football, and before that, the NBA on ABC |
| 1:16.6 | and many other things. The Olympics, swimming, college sports, I did a lot over three decades |
| 1:23.2 | in sports television. And for many years, after 9-11 especially, I started thinking, |
| 1:30.2 | there's got to be something I can do to help. Help what? Anything. The world felt like it was |
| 1:38.9 | falling apart around me. And I happen to love my country very much and appreciate what it's done for my family, |
| 1:45.6 | my ancestors, and me, and what I want it to be for my kids. And so I got myself to the position |
| 1:54.2 | where I finally said, you know what, I'm going to, I'm going to leave this amazing job and |
| 1:58.1 | everyone shook their head at me and thought I was crazy. And yes, I left |
| 2:01.8 | voluntarily, for those of you who still think that this was by NBC's design. It was not. It was my |
| 2:08.2 | design. And I just teased you by saying, if I told you one of the reasons was China, would you |
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