Last week, Hall of Fame cornerback and Colorado coach Deion Sanders was caught in a controversial social media with a former Buffalo who transferred to Austin Peay.
Coach Prime, Sanders made two remarks last week on social media gaining more than 37 million views combined on X. Inviting commentaries of ESPN’s “Sports Center” and “Undisputed” on Fox Sports to raise whether his conduct was appropriate.
Deion Sanders recently punched down against a critic on X. His explanation: (1) I was bored; and (2) I didn't do it. https://t.co/TqK0Umhf70
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The controversy sparked off after former Colorado safety Xavier Smith told The Athletic that coach Sanders “was destroying guys’ confidence and belief in themselves.” Sanders responded that he didn’t remember Smith, who must have been “mid at best.”
Following the episode, Sanders said in a recent interview, with Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today, later published over the weekend on Thee Pregame Show,
“I gotta do better on that and not ride with it, but I was bored. I was bored, and I didn’t say nothing hurtful. I don’t attack people.”
Sanders also wrote on Wednesday, “Lawd Jesus.” He wrote the comment after Austin Peay DB Jaheim Ward pointed out that Colorado wide receiver Kaleb Mathis had just 38 receiving yards.
During the interview, he cleared up that he didn’t mean to ridicule Ward, and claimed he was misinterpreted, he explained this in the recent interview.
“I try my best to refrain, but like when you posted like stats, I said, Lawd Jesus, like dang, he really went at him, like he really shot him. That’s really what I meant, and I think that was taken wrong. I think that was taken sideways or something else.”
