Tafoya Will Report on 45th Cowboys Game in 19th Trip to AT&T Stadium – Both Regular-Season Highs
STAMFORD, Conn. – December 22, 2021 – When NBC’s Sunday Night Football kicks off this Sunday, December 26, with the Washington Football Team visiting the Dallas Cowboys (8:20 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock), Michele Tafoya will serve as the sideline reporter for her 300th NFL regular-season game – a primetime NFL record.
Sunday marks the 45th Cowboys regular-season game that Tafoya will work, ranking Dallas as the team she has covered most in her 18 seasons on the NFL sidelines (2011-present with NBC, 2006-10 with ESPN, 2004-05 with ABC). This weekend also marks her 16th regular-season game featuring the Washington Football Team, and her fifth Dallas-Washington matchup.
In all, Tafoya’s NFL regular season sideline reporting has taken her to 42 stadiums, with Sunday’s trip to AT&T Stadium her personal-high 19th at the venue.
Following is a report on Tafoya’s time on the NFL sidelines in the regular-season:
MOST GAMES BY STADIUM
Stadium, Location | # of Games |
AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX | 19* |
Heinz Field, Pittsburgh | 18 |
Empower Field at Mile High, Denver | 16 |
Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA | 15 |
Lambeau Field, Green Bay | 15 |
Lincoln Financial Field, Philadelphia | 15 |
Lumen Field, Seattle | 15 |
*includes Sunday’s game |
MOST GAMES, TEAM
NFL club | # of Games |
Dallas Cowboys | 45* |
Green Bay Packers | 42 |
New England Patriots | 37 |
Philadelphia Eagles | 34 |
Pittsburgh Steelers | 34 |
*includes Sunday’s game |
MOST MATCHUPS
NFL club | # of Games |
Cowboys-Eagles | 12 |
Cowboys-Giants | 11 |
Ravens-Steelers | 9 |
Bears-Packers | 7 |
Packers-Vikings | 7 |
A record four-time Emmy Award-winner for Outstanding Sports Personality – Sports Reporter, Tafoya is the only person nominated for the award in all 10 years of its existence. In 2014, she won the Gracie Award for Outstanding On-Air Talent in a Sports Program for her work on NBC’s Sunday Night Football.
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