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From gridiron to journalist to pulpit ... Vai Sikahema accepts another big challenge

Rick Loomis, For the Deseret News

Vai Sikahema with is wife Keala in front of the new temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that opened in 2016 after four years of construction. Sikahema works as a midday anchor for NBC's channel 10 news in Philadelphia. He was born in Tonga, played on Brigham Young University's national champion winning football team in 1984 and went on to spend a decade in the NFL. Shortly after his NFL career ended, he was picked up to cover sports and has now been with the station for 25 years.