{"id":1539129,"date":"2022-11-20T16:16:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1539129"},"modified":"2022-11-20T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:16:23","slug":"how-tall-is-nbc-sunday-night-football-host-maria-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-tall-is-nbc-sunday-night-football-host-maria-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tall is NBC \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019 Host Maria Taylor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When NBC\u2019s\u00a0<em>Sunday Night Football<\/em>\u00a0studio host is sitting down, you notice her smooth transition, insightful questions, and depth of football knowledge. When she\u2019s standing up next to her\u00a0<em>Football Night in America\u00a0<\/em>co-hosts \u2014 former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/nfl-players\/\">NFL players<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/nfl-coaches\/\">coaches<\/a>\u00a0Jason Garrett and Tony Dungy \u2014 on Sunday nights, you notice how much taller Taylor looks next to them. So, just how tall is Maria Taylor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-tall-is-maria-taylor\"><strong>How tall is Maria Taylor?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaTaylor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MariaTaylor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rodney_Harrison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rodney_Harrison<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonGarrett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JasonGarrett<\/a> prep at the on-site Football Night in America set at Lincoln Financial Field, which gets underway at the top of the hour at 7pm ET on NBC and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peacock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@peacock<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/50F0spIIIn\">pic.twitter.com\/50F0spIIIn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NBC Sports PR (@NBCSportsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCSportsPR\/status\/1581770385879506945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Taylor is 6-foot-2, which makes it little surprise that she was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/espns-maria-taylor-was-a-standout-athlete-in-college\/\">volleyball star and basketball player<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Georgia from 2005 to 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After leaving UGA, Taylor went into broadcasting (more on that below) and joined ESPN. In 2021, she made a move to NBC and joined the <em>Sunday Night Football<\/em> studio show, <em>Football Night in America<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the 2022 NFL season, Taylor took over for Mike Tirico as the show\u2019s primary host, working with former NFL quarterback and Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett and former NFL defensive back and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tony-dungy-shoots-down-notion-all-nfl-coaches-ignore-their-families\/\">Colts head coach Tony Dungy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As former NFL players, neither Dungy nor Garrett are small people. Pro Football Reference lists Dungy as 6 feet tall and Garrett as 6-foot-2. However, Taylor appears to tower over both of them during their late second-quarter standup on <em>Sunday Night Football<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s possible both Dungy and Garrett aren\u2019t quite as big as their program height. It\u2019s also possible that in the heels she wears on game days, Taylor is 6-foot-5 or taller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, Taylor towering over Dungy and Garrett is the reason so many people are asking, how tall is Maria Taylor?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maria Taylor\u2019s broadcasting career<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Maria-Taylor.jpg?w=925&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=89\" alt=\"How tall is Maria Taylor?\" class=\"wp-image-1539131\" \/><figcaption>Maria Taylor | Nick Cammett\/Diamond Images via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RELATED:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/espn-lost-erin-andrews-because-network-wouldnt-give-her-prestigious-job\/\"><strong>ESPN Lost Erin Andrews Because the Network Wouldn\u2019t Give Her Prestigious Job<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a two-sport career at Georgia, where Maria Taylor was a basketball player and an All-SEC volleyball player, the Georgia native started her broadcast career where she went to school, appearing on several Bulldog- and SEC-centric sports shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That experience led to a job at ESPN, where she started as a college football sideline reporter and a studio analyst for Women\u2019s college basketball. Over the next few years, Taylor built her resume further, working on ESPN\u2019s college football studio coverage and sideline reporting for NFL games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Taylor transitioned to ESPN\u2019s NBA coverage, hosting the flagship pregame show,\u00a0<em>NBA Countdown<\/em>. In 2020, Countdown became the pregame show of the NBA Finals instead of\u00a0<em>The Jump<\/em>, hosted by Rachel Nichols. Controversy ensued as Nichols was recorded in her hotel room\u00a0complaining about the situation, saying ESPN chose Taylor over her because Taylor is Black.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this controversy, Taylor allowed her ESPN contract to run out after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/espn-maria-taylor-reportedly-turned-down-5-million-contract-seeks-stephen-a-smith-money\/\">turning down a $4 million raise<\/a>\u00a0from the network because she wanted \u201cStephen A. Smith money.\u201d Smith makes\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/stephen-a-smith-says-his-12-million-salary-makes-him-underpaid-compared-unnamed-white-colleagues\/\">$12 million per year<\/a>\u00a0from the sports network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor promptly signed with NBC Sports and joined the 2020 Olympics coverage. In addition to her NFL responsibilities, Taylor also hosted NBC\u2019s 2022 French Open coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When watching the &#8216;Football Night in America' studio show ahead of &#8216;Sunday Night Football' on NBC, many fans ask, how tall is Maria Taylor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1539131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9282,236608],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Tall is NBC \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019 Host Maria Taylor? - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When watching the &#039;Football Night in America&#039; studio show ahead of &#039;Sunday Night Football&#039; on NBC, many fans ask, how tall is Maria Taylor?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-tall-is-nbc-sunday-night-football-host-maria-taylor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Tall is NBC \u2018Sunday Night Football\u2019 Host Maria Taylor? 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