Sanders. The football coach
at the University of Colorado.
I mean,
we go way back. We got this has taken it first and foremost.
Okay, we go way back. Way back long long, I mean, way, way
back, I go back with you to the point pre cell phones. Yeah.
Okay. And one time you said, if you ever really need me
call the road Hotel, the night before a game and asked for red
fox, it was my trouble name and that was fantastic. Big
trouble. Yeah.
My favorite comedian. Yeah. Red fox and his day.
Right? Fox is pretty good. Yeah.
Saudi on
your life
is a movie most different chapters,
your life is a movie chapter, but I always will think
that if you really wanted to, if you really wanted to
you could have played 20 years in Major League Baseball.
I think I want it to.
Yeah I think I wanted to but
the timing the If I had to do it all over, I probably would
focus on baseball
if I had to do it all over.
That's the truth. Would you feel better today? If he
focused on baseball or how do you feel physically today Glee?
I'm
it's a new normal.
Of course I had blood clots and I had nine surgeries and got
two toes amputated and
the whole left side is not.
It would never be like, it was. So I'm walking with a limp.
Yeah,
it's not swag As a real impact,
but it's a new normal. But I'm happy. I'm here. Yeah. Here.
You know, there's so many interesting things to talk to
you about, but I think the most interesting thing,
I could not figure out why
you went to coach at Jackson State for three years.
And when you chose to try to improve your lot in life that
you got criticized by a lot of people are people
and and but, but I would ask you.
what really appealed to you about coaching football
that now you've made it like your next life
because I've always been somewhat of a coach
When I play the game, I've always taken the younger
players up under my wing, and tried to
cultivate their game, and their skills and their Lifestyles and
to allow them. No no. These are the steps you take to be this.
These are the steps.
So when I got totally out of the game,
I remember before Chan was changed Ochocinco for Champ,
Bailey was Champ Bailey.
They all flew down to Texas and I had like a mini camp a pro
players. They really teach them Life, the game and all that. So
I've always been sort of coaching then I got into
coaching my kids by mistake. I'm just sitting there watching
and they were just being coached the most ignorant stuff
I've ever seen in my life and everybody would had
a concussion if I wanted to do it in
and I just started from there it's okay. If I'm gonna do it
I'm gonna do it right. And I went and got several guys from
the NFL former players Kevin math is and George Hageman and
so forth and we started the Youth Organization
in Texas called Truth and we had 1500 kids. Our first child
and it's them.
So I've been coaching for probably
well over 15 to 20 years.
The country is just getting no coach Prime, but I've been good
friends for a long time. And I adore it. It's not a job. It's
is
it's not a path. It's real, it's genuine and it's something
I love
it's more than coaching. You know, because when you coach
you, you coach, I'm passionate about legit, a Katja to college
football. You also have to recruit. Yes. Yes. So I would
think that
that gives you a pretty good Advantage if you walk in and
you're Deion Sanders and you say to an 18 year old kid,
I want you to come to Jackson State or I want you to come to
Colorado. There's other the help
it helps tremendously based on situation, some people could
coach at each against that they would bring up all your your
left instead of focusing on your rights.
I've did a lot of things have done a lot of things, right?
Maybe a couple things wrong that God has shown me the way
to recant that, but
I I absolutely adore. These young men,
adore, sitting down with the families and understanding that
nameks of the family, then understanding. How can I assist
that kid into getting to his destination?
Really, we're navigational system. Trying to help these
kids be professionals, not just professional football players,
but professional Spirit.
What did you love about Saturday afternoon at one
o'clock? When the games actually retarded, I like to
compete.
But the competition does not stop.
Every time you walk outside your hotel room in your home,
somebody's competing with you, they're
competing with what you have on your shoes, your clothes,
the car. You drive up in the home that you just walked out of
your credit cards or whatever. You deem to have a, you called
worth.
It's always a competition
is not fair, but that's the reality of our country. Is
always the competition. This is my son right here.
Yeah. See what he's going to call me.
What you? What
We I mean this is this is like a son to me for real. Yeah,
like safe really. Wow.
Tell you that we just talked about
we're just talking about that.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah. I met him in a
week.
We met in a hotel in Atlanta. He was going through it and we
haven't departed since then
and I love him to life and if I keep talking about me, talking
about how people make
Cry because you know
when it comes to himself,
wow, this is my God. I love him to look at him.
This is a, he would be the best coach. The best recruiter that
college football ever sing. And I'm not saying this just
because it's my man
like
Like I can go through story. After story, he's going to get
the job done at Colorado. Get the job
look.
I gotta go. All right, I'll just come over here. The
family. Yeah.
Okay. I gotta see him.
Oh Lord,
that was authentic. That was real. You couldn't know. You're
going to plan that better me on your show. Yeah, a de.
So
I'm really curious like you want to be at the top level of
college football, you made him, use me. I want to be, I'm going
to be. Yeah, yeah,
this is not a want. This is
what we gonna do, right? And so, I wonder
when you look at people like Nick Saban,
yes. Is part of your is part of your dream.
I want to be in a national championship game against Nick
Saban and Alabama. I don't pick the opponent. I don't give
a damn who's on the other side of the field, I just know where
I'm going to be. Not what I want to be,
where I'm going to be in due time. It's going to be
we're going to make it there.
I'm a sure that
that's not that's not a fantasy, that's the reality we
coming.
When you interviewed for the job at Colorado, okay,
what did they want to know about Deion Sanders? It did
only homework before the game. You gotta understand that they
don't, they don't come and do your homework there. Yeah, they
do the homework and come. It was different because now,
you're not
interviewing with the sense of I got to prove myself, right
because I have. So now you're interviewing with the sense of
does this fit for us
right? Is there a fit
and
our a Dirac George is a Unbelievable human being and we
click and it had to be a connection and had to be
a click. And it was,
can you tell me?
What is it?
Why did you choose this for your next life? When you could
have chosen quite a few other walks of life? This shows me.
I didn't choose it.
It chose me. It's an extension of who I am is just a path that
I had to keep going.
I couldn't deviate from that.
I've always been in.
People's business
of trying to help someone elevate.
It just happens to be a football involves.
It happens to be life and lives involved and happened to be
timing involves. It happened to be
cultures involved and I love all of it and I'm involved in
every aspect of everything that's involved.
I want to ask you to other questions before we get to
the real business of why you're here
or ecos. Well, it goes, oh he could.
But I want to ask you,
I'm a hall-of-fame voter and you've been pretty outspoken
about what has happened to the Hall of Fame in your eyes in
recent years, we've gotten stuck a
all right, where's open house? Well
I'm here,
isn't it
look what are you going to Hall of Fame?
A guy? Who what?
A guy who was so great when you watched him play, you knew he
was a Hall of Fame. He changed the game,
he changed it. That's what I was told when I was a shorty
coming up. Yeah but but, but wait a second
guards, don't change the game. Excuse me
guards? Yes they do
know. They know they change the way the game is played. Yes,
they do. If you have a garden is dominant, that changes
the way you call your game. That changes the game. All right
well Larry Allen
wrecked. Larry Allen
changed the game. Yeah.
Alan change the game. That was a guard. Take whatever you want
to call it. So yes. Yes, it is the occasion game. All right.
So how would you
sort of separate
if you had your choice
in the Hall of Fame? Would you really want to have a wing of
the Hall of Fame, Upper Room, an upper room, get em up.
And so, how do you decide who's in it
shoot? They decided it was in the game decided to,
you know, who changed the game.
Like, if you just say, okay,
so you're going to put alt besides some of the guys, Y'all
been putting in the last few years you just don't have them.
Sit beside else LT like his cool.
And that night
the lights are still on and somebody got to turn off
the lights in LTS a man get your butt over there and turn on
the light. Turn off the dirt lights because he's at that level.
Yeah. In some are not
it's just you know
you can't you guys can't feel good about this stuff but you
have a quota, you shouldn't have to meet a quarter every
year, the same guys in if they ain't that, they ain't, that
that's not right. Yeah, because that's what y'all told. Old me
Hall of Fame award
and secondly, how can Devin Hester not be in the Hall of
Fame.
I'm a Devin Hester. Dev 010. Has to change the game. Yeah.
When you think about returners, anything Devon has to you kick
you. He's changed the game.
How can he
the second year straight? You you
that stuff makes me mad man because now is this like hate
is involved hates and be involved in this stuff. I don't
think hate is involved. How can that be? Has not been there?
Listen, you're talking to somebody,
I voted for Devin Hester so how do not
give me anything I say? Can I say
This is my opinion. Nobody says
I'm not voting for Devin Hester, because of X. Here's my
opinion. The number of snaps that Devin Hester played.
I think that's in fact, I understand what you want to
moan out there every play. No, you don't want him out there.
Every play. I understand exactly what you're saying. You
got to look at the situation. Uniquely is unique, right? And
he did something that has never been done. Before he changed,
you can even get up to go pee. You
would hold it on fourth down because the Devin Hester,
you would Hold it because the Devin Hester
nobody wanted to kill other words, you wait for
the quarterback to get on the field. Yeah, exactly. Devin
Hester.
Okay. But but here's the biggest issue,
how in the world would you decide who goes in the upper room?
You say, well, don't you
the you know, what do you know who should decide? We should
decide that
y'all need to get out the way and let us decide Up Room.
Y'all have done your thing and I appreciate that.
I appreciate it immensely
as you earn the right to be on that committee to vote.
the upper room that should be us
because when we are together,
we know who ain't got no business in that,
but we together with me.
Like, when you get your taken from,
what would you do
for instance with like, Don Hudson,
who in 1935, to 1945 caught three times as many passes as
anybody did in the first 25 years? And he had Farrah, was
he totally dominant? And
he should be enough room. All right,
you can't don't compare errors because air is a different,
right? Right, right. Like, you got quite a big storm for four
and five thousand throwing every turn down. You can test
the receivers
and Some Den back in the day that does not
eliminate their work. Who do you think is the greatest
quarterback of all time?
Brady,
Longevity nut, nut or greatness. Just
the wheel that the way, the will, the way.
What? He brought to the game in his aspiring his passion. I've
never heard anybody.
A player say anything. Negative about how he attacked the game,
and he's a winner.
He's a dirndl winner.
It once upon a time, for me, it was Montana.
It was joke because shoot, it was joke, but Brady with
the Super Bowl wins Eclipse that I love Troy
three, Super Bowl. You know who I think is going to be Brady?
Hmm
Mahomes,
let me tell you why not.
He may get opportunities to get there but sooner or later
it takes a left.
All this stuff that you think is going to be consistently.
Going, it takes a left, your coaching staff. Now gets
assembled sooner or later,
it starts to get picked or later. They're open to
coordinated, everybody. Keep overlooking every year. He's
gonna go somewhere. Yeah, and you're gonna see the difference
now, and he's a great call. I love God. I love any reading.
It's a great play called,
but Brady had so many opportunities because he was
a team guy. Came to the salary when it came to
him, taking the backseat and let another guys get
get in there. That day is gone, man. These quarterbacks wanted
a bank, they won't take back, they take it done for the team
that's over.
It's not gonna help. The will of Mahomes is special love it.
I
just think, especially what he proved after that, Jacksonville
game, but you talking about his will, and I love him because
you've seen it. Consistently
in the playoffs,
right? That's why he's Is on the tip of your tongue. Now,
some of these other guys, if you consistently see him,
you'll be talking about a man
shoot, the will of this guy had a passion that he plays with
but you got to consistently seem right right? Okay. We
talked about LeBron. The brother brother brother, right,
but he's not in the playoffs,
we build somebody else to be a giant because it's not LeBron.
Do you think by the way, LeBron
easily could have been a tight end in the NFL?
I think he would have been receiving,
you think he would have been a wide receiver and he would have
been various body would have been different, then he'd been
buried. What? BDK Metcalf type,
the rug and then whatever he wanted to be.
That's a dog in the dog recognizes the dark.
Or he coasts or Coast? Tell me why you're here. Why do you
love Oikos? First of all, is not something that I just
endorses something that I really enjoy.
And not only when I enjoyed I introduced it because it is in
the Durham refrigerators on the family, he sits as well. So now
we have a family affair. This is the second year straight
that Oikos and I have partnered
in for Super Bowl spot now.
Now when I say Mom and them but sister
my daughter and both of my sons and his spot and we're
competing and I love it, let me get the tag lines or it goes
strives to support all strength. That make you
unstoppable. That's who we are.
Everybody has a strength, you have a strength. You ain't no
joke with the pin in your mind. That's your strength. It has
made you consistently over. How many years?
39 Unstoppable,
I have a strength and I'm hitting another chapter of it
and it continues to make me Unstoppable. So that's what. Oh
Echoes is a part of and I'm thankful that I partner with
a company that thinks like that
and I love it. Deion Sanders, the head football, coach of
the Colorado, Buffaloes, become a baby.
It's been great having you,
thank you for my guess.
Adam Pacman Jones. Ha ha ha. We my son packages, right. Thank
you so much. Thank you.