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Speaker 1: We have to talk about what's going on in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: You've got Michelle Tafoya announcing that she is running for

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Speaker 1: US Senate. Now, explain to everybody who Michelle Tafoya is. Well.

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Speaker 2: Football fans certainly a recognized her. She was an NFL

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Speaker 2: sideline reporter for decades and really one of the top

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Speaker 2: sideline reporters in the NFL. She retired in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: Her last game that she worked, she was the sideline

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Speaker 2: reporter for Super Bowl fifty six. So somebody that was

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Speaker 2: literally at the top of her profession.

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Speaker 1: And she did a mic drop and set them out.

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Speaker 2: And she set them out. I'm done. She immediately started

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Speaker 2: expressing her views that she's been a conservative her whole life. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: she was very vocal during the twenty twenty four presidential election,

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Speaker 2: and now she's made her announcement that she is going

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Speaker 2: to be running for Senate from the state of Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: She said that Minnesota is facing a leadership crisis, no kidding,

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Speaker 1: and that career politicians have caused all the current problems

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Speaker 1: and won't fix them. And she framed it that this

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Speaker 1: isn't left versus right, this is right versus wrong, and

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Speaker 1: that her campaign is about putting people first, not politics

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Speaker 1: as usual. Interesting to have somebody from the media side

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Speaker 1: of things go into office, yeah.

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Speaker 2: And really interesting to have somebody from the sports media

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Speaker 2: side of things, because when we think about people from

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Speaker 2: the sports world moving into politics, you think about former

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Speaker 2: coaches and athletes, whether it's Tommy Tubberville or Herschel Walker

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Speaker 2: who ran for senate from the state of Georgia in

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Speaker 2: the last election cycle. But rarely have we seen somebody

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Speaker 2: from the sports media world attempt to make that shift

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Speaker 2: into politics. And it might be happening more often going

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Speaker 2: forward here because famed college football analyst Paul Feinbaum has

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Speaker 2: come out and said now he hasn't officially filed, but

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Speaker 2: he's come out and said he plans on running for

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Speaker 2: senate as well from the state of Alabama.

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Speaker 1: Well, and Stephen A. Smith as well has been getting

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Speaker 1: more vocal about his views.

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Speaker 2: And it's interesting because Stephen A. Smith was a huge

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Speaker 2: analyst in the sports world. Now he hasn't talking, you know,

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Speaker 2: expressed serious interest about running for public office, but in

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Speaker 2: his podcast and his show appearances, he has definitely made

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Speaker 2: a conscious shift away from sports and into politics.

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Speaker 1: So Michelle Tafoya. She recently met with the National Republican

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Speaker 1: Senatorial Committee, who actually recruited her, and we'll see how

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Speaker 1: that goes. But you've got former sports or entertainment figure

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Speaker 1: running for Congress or Senate this election cycle, and she

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Speaker 1: already has I guess in Minnesota some built in name recognition,

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Speaker 1: also some communication experience.

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Speaker 2: And that's why we see people that come from the

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Speaker 2: sports world and from the media world, they have that

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Speaker 2: instant leg up when they do decide to run for

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Speaker 2: politics because people know their name, and that can be

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Speaker 2: so difficult just to get that name recognition. That's you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you've never heard of the person before,

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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about him, I don't even know

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Speaker 2: their name. You're starting at zero. Somebody like Michelle Tafoya,

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Speaker 2: who certainly is well known in this da Minnesota and

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Speaker 2: beyond that, she announces that she's running for Senate. Instantly

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Speaker 2: she's got that name recognition and people are like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Michelle Tafoy. I always see her on the sidelines from

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Speaker 2: the Eagles game or the Vikings game.

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Speaker 1: Well, it worked for Donald Trump.

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Speaker 2: Worked for Donald Trump. Coming from the media, and again

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Speaker 2: that world.

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Speaker 3: Didn't think it was going to work for him, but

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Speaker 3: it certainly did, and it works for certain sports figures

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Speaker 3: as well, like Tommy Tupperville who was a longtime college

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Speaker 3: football coach, and when he decided that he was going

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Speaker 3: to start, you know, running for Congress, people

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Speaker 2: Already know your name and that you know, usually it

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Speaker 2: takes you know, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of

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Speaker 2: dollars just to get your name out there and get

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Speaker 2: that kind of name recognition that these people are jumping

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Speaker 2: into the game and from day one, they've already got

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Speaker 2: that name recognition.