NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan will join ABC’s Good Morning America full time in September, ending his four-year run hosing the daily talk show Live with Kelly Ripa.
In recent years, former New York Giants star and Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan has made the transition from the field to television look effortless. In addition to being a member of FOX’s NFL coverage as a studio analyst, Strahan has spent the last four years as the co-host of the syndicated daily talk show Live.
In the last year, Michael Strahan has also appeared several days a week on the ABC morning show Good Morning America. Now, the NFL’s all time leader in sacks for a single season (22.5 in 2001) will be coming into the homes of GMA viewers more often — and leaving his seat next to Live co-host Kelly Ripa, according to Variety:
"“Michael has been a stellar addition to the broadcast. Over the past two years on ‘GMA,’ he’s proven to be a tireless and versatile broadcaster with an incredible ability to connect with people, from veterans to American pop culture icons and newsmakers,” said James Goldston, president of ABC News, in a memo to staff sent this morning.“At ‘GMA,’ he’ll now have even more opportunities to tell stories that inspire, inform and empower people."
Strahan will still be able to work for both ABC and FOX with both contracts allowing for such an arrangement (as FOX does not have a morning show on their affiliates that directly competes with GMA, NBC’s Today or CBS This Morning).
Michael Strahan spent 15 seasons in the NFL, all of them with the Giants. He was named an All-Pro six times, named to the Pro Bowl seven times and twice appeared in the Super Bowl, helping to defeat the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII before announcing his retirement.
Strahan was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014.
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