Jason La Canfora
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Favorite English football side
Leeds United
Favorite NFL coach to interview
Sean McVay
Favorite assignment
30-plus days in Nagano, Japan for the 1998 Winter Olympics
Favorite Super Bowl
Watching Tom Brady overcome a 28-3 deficit in Super Bowl LI in 2017 in Houston (I kind of predicted it in real time in the press box)
Favorite band
The Clash
La Canfora has covered over 20 Super Bowls and League Meetings and NFL drafts, building a wide network of sources throughout all aspects of the game. He was an award winning print journalist as well, working at The Detroit Free Press and The Baltimore Sun prior to his first stint at The Washington Post. He has covered sporting events around the world, including two Winter Olympics and all of the 2006 World Cup. He attended his first NFL game in 1978, and would soon kindle what has become a lifelong love and appreciation of the sport. La Canfora is also a professional handicapper, specializing in the NFL, creating a daily sports wagering game show - "Wanna Bet?" He also hosts nationally broadcast NFL radio shows in the US, as well as a daily sports radio show in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.
Motto
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"Enjoy yourself ... it's later than ya think."
Jason La Canfora
Jason La Canfora has covered the NFL for some of the premier media outlets in the United States and is one of the more recognizable names in American sports journalism. He has reported exclusively on American football since 2004, first for The Washington Post, then serving as the NFL Insider for The NFL Network (three years) and then CBS Sports (10 years) before returning to The Post in 2022 and remaining there until the paper began to shutter its sports department. La Canfora spent a decade on CBS's The NFL TODAY pregame show, broadcast nationwide in the US, breaking news and reporting on all aspects of the game and providing written and broadcast reports on every aspect of the NFL including Super Bowls. work stoppages, expansion into Europe, player and coach transactions and rule changes. He was a key member of Super Bowl pre-game shows heling direct all of CBS Sports NFL coverage.