{"id":944050,"date":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944050\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:46:08","slug":"michele-tafoyas-pivot-from-sunday-night-football-to-minnesota-senate-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944050\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Tafoya&#8217;s pivot from &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; to Minnesota Senate candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PCSEYG7DRVHOVIB6TKW4S6D3DQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When Michele Tafoya left the NFL sidelines and launched a podcast in the spring of 2022, it was not yet clear where her new path would lead. Her first guest was Bob Costas, and near the end of a sprawling conversation, her longtime NBC colleague wondered aloud about the sort of political figure the country seemed to be missing \u2014 someone who could bridge the country\u2019s divides and take sensible positions on contentious issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Michele Tafoya left the NFL sidelines and launched a podcast in the spring of 2022, it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-944050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}