Open the season with TCU, Nebraska, USC and Oregon with Shedeur at QB1. Wowzers. Good luck.
Deion at Colorado
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They'll be lucky to win 1 of those.
He ain't in the "minor leagues" anymore. He's gonna need a cpl more years of pulling these recruits in to be competitive.
He ain't in the "minor leagues" anymore. He's gonna need a cpl more years of pulling these recruits in to be competitive.
Everyone just might see how fast one can turn a historically dumpster fire of a program around. I’m curious and will be watching.
The good news for Deion is it’s year one. No one in Colorado expects more than about 2-3 wins next year if that. Expectations are low and there’s a good chance he exceeds them. If that happens, it only makes it more likely Colorado gains momentum and recruits even better. Not to mention USC and UCLA leaving the conference should help.
OT: I was at the old Tiger Stadium for a Tigers/Yankees game when Deion was with Detroit. I was sitting near the Left Field Foul Pole when he bangs a 2 run homer into a second deck, metal, billboard.
I'll never forget that sound. Exactly how you remember it from old movies. Just another thing professional sports has lost over the years.
Agree the old Tiger Stadium and the stadiums of the 60s, 70s and 80s were pretty cool.
Deion probably didn’t get enough credit as a baseball player. Pretty amazing to play professional baseball and football for as long as he did. Few were good enough to do both and I’m not sure anyone outside of Bo Jackson did it for as long as Deion.
As a Falcons and Braves fan I love Brian Jordan. He made a smart decision to focus on baseball to extend his career as long as possible.
It’s impressive to play both at all, but Deion played 17 years and was a Hall of Fame football player and still was able to churn out 9 years of MLB. Jordan may be the closest we will ever see, but he did not play that long in the NFL.
It’s impressive that Deion could take the pounding of an NFL season and then come back and play pro baseball for as long as he did. We may never see that again.
I don’t think Deion took much of a pounding. He usually stayed away as much as possible from contact. Said that himself. His thing was speed. He could “go from 0 to 60” in two steps. Great closing speed.
I’ll follow a little bit but have no interest in West Coast football.
It all started in October of 1992, when Deion Sanders, a two-sport star, announced that he was going to play in an NFL contest that Sunday with the Atlanta Falcons. But, why was that such a big deal?
Because Sanders also played for the Atlanta Braves at the time, and the Braves were in the midst of the National League Championship Series versus the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Braves had a game scheduled for that same day.
A lot of hullabaloo ensued. A helicopter was rented. The whole world, it seemed, was in the loop on exactly how Deion Sanders was going to play in two major sports at the highest level in the world in the same day.
Well, CBS broadcaster Tim McCarver thought this was grandstanding and didn’t like it one little bit. And he let a national television audience know he didn’t like it. Here’s what McCarver said on air, live during the telecast:
“How can he leave in the playoffs and go play in a football game? . . . The way I look at that . . . that is just flat wrong, and I guess could be construed as a breach of contract.”
When Sanders got word of the criticism, it didn’t sit well with him. So when the Braves won the LCS, he used the celebration as an excuse to douse water on McCarver. Not a glass, not a bucket. . . but a water cooler. According to reports, Sanders tried to drench McCarver three (3) different times, and succeeded twice.
On TNT’s NFL postgame show a few night’s later, Ernie Johnson sat down with Deion Sanders and discussed the situation. Sanders made light of it, much to McCarver’s chagrin:
“How can you be a coward for throwing water on someone? The guy just didn't want us to win and we did. He just got a little wetter than anybody else. . . He's flat-out ignorant. He's more of a coward. I never met the man, and I never spoke to him in my life. We were just having a good time.”
Only one of them (Sanders) appeared to be having a good time.
The National League fined Sanders $1,000 for the incident. Sanders has never apologized.
In the nearly 30 years that have passed since the confrontation, Deion has only commented about it once, the above-listed quote on TNT. He has been asked multiple times about the fracas with McCarver but has declined to comment. The silence only tends to fan the flames.
