Tense postgame exchange between Deion Sanders, Colorado State coach revealed: ‘You was talking about my mama’
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Deion Sanders’ first season as head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes was filled with incredible highs and extreme lows.
Colorado won its first three games of the year before losing eight of its last nine matchups, including six straight to end the year.
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, center, exits the field following the Oregon game, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eugene, Oregon. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)
Before finishing at the bottom of the Pac-12, the Buffaloes and "Coach Prime" were the talk of college football, defeating TCU, Nebraska and Colorado State to start the year.
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Before the in-state rivalry game against the Rams, Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell took a jab at Sanders for wearing a hat and sunglasses during sessions with the media.
"We had to do a bunch of ESPN videos. And it’s great. I loved it. But our kids came out of those videos really with a chip on their shoulder," Norvell said on his weekly radio show. "They’re tired of all that stuff. They really are tired of it.
"I sat down with ESPN today. And I don’t care if they hear it in Boulder. I told them, ‘I took my hat off, and I took my glasses off.’ And I said, ‘When I talk to grownups, I take my hat and my glasses off.’ That’s what my mother taught me. They’re not going to like us no matter what we say or do. It doesn’t matter. So, let’s go up there and play."
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Sanders heard the comments and took them personally, believing that it insinuated that Sanders’ mother did not raise him right.
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