Deion Sanders' MLB teammates say he was a 'great' for the clubhouse: 'He wasn’t Prime Time all the time'

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Pro Football Hall of Famer and current Colorado Buffaloes football coach Deion Sanders has been and continues to be a lightning rod in the sports world.

In the '90s, Sanders excelled in pro baseball and football. 

He became known as "Prime Time" and developed a reputation for his supreme self-confidence and bravado. 

But Sanders' larger-than-life personality did not always overshadow his teammates when he was in MLB clubhouses. Some of his former teammates detailed how supportive Sanders was and spoke about how much they enjoyed playing with him.

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Deion Sanders of the Atlanta Braves during batting practice before a game against the Philadelphia Phillies June 1, 1994, at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.  (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Rick Reed recalled a time when Sanders stood up for him after he had been shunned for breaking ranks during the mid-90s players' strike.

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"You know what? You have no idea what that man went through, what he’s going through. So, how can you sit here and judge him?" Sanders said in a team meeting in the version of the story that got back to Reed. Jim Bowden, the Reds' general manager at the time, called a team meeting and later corroborated that version of events.

"I never had a player in any clubhouse that cared more about winning and his teammates than Deion," according to The Athletic's Bowden. "He did more to help other players both on and off the field more than anyone else I’d ever had."

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