Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders explained his controversial remarks on social media last week, saying he needs to do better but was bored, didn’t mean any harm and was misinterpreted in one case.
Sanders made two remarks last week on social media that gained more than 37 million views combined on X, formerly Twitter, while also triggering commentaries on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and “Undisputed” on Fox Sports about whether his conduct was appropriate.
“I gotta do better on that and not ride with it, but I was bored,” Sanders said in an interview published over the weekend on Thee Pregame Show, one of Sanders’ favored YouTube channels. “I was bored, and I didn’t say nothing hurtful. I don’t attack people.”
What was Deion Sanders’ explanation?
In one case, Sanders said he was coming to the defense of his quarterback son Shedeur. A person on X with fewer than 300 followers had instructed Deion Sanders to “Tell yo son stop act like he the coldest out here then put up a 4-8 season.”
Sanders responded to that Wednesday in front of his 1.8 million followers.
“He will be a top 5 pick,” wrote Sanders, whose team finished with a 4-8 record in his first year last year. “Where yo son going ? Lololol I got time today. Lololol.”
Deion Sanders didn’t apologize for that remark, saying “that was real” in the interview published over the weekend. Shedeur Sanders is expected to be a first-round NFL draft pick in 2025.
