'Be Scared!' Deion Sanders - And Family - Keeps Colorado Undefeated

Atlanta Falcons legend Deion Sanders is college football's featured attraction right now as he's keeping it all in the family by pushing Colorado to an undefeated record.

Deion Sanders, the former Atlanta Falcons and Hall of Fame star, is college football's featured attraction right now, and on Saturday he kept it all in the family with two of his sons starring in No. 18 Colorado's rally to beat in-state rival Colorado State 43-35 in two OTs.

“(We've) got Lil Wayne over here, 'Coach Prime' doing his thing. ... a whole animal running around,” said Shilo Sanders of the pregame festivities that included a walk-in song from the rapper, a celebrity-filled Folsom Field in Boulder and of course Ralphie the (live) Buffalo. “I would’ve been so scared if I was the other team.”

Shilo recorded an 80-yard pick-6 early and his brother Shedeur won it late by engineering a 98-yard scoring drive, all part of Deion's quick turnaround of a Colorado program that a year ago won one game but is now 3-0.

“We showed that we have no surrender or give-up in us,” Deion said. “They never doubted themselves.”

The high-profile game, nationally televised in prime time, featured a handful of fights and dirty hits and high emotion, much of it stemming from CU's perceived insults from CSU coach Jay Norvell, Rams coach Jay Norvell, who took a poke at Deion's sunglasses-and-hat swag. Before the game, Sanders pondered why an opponent would "make it personal" - Norvell mentioned that his own mother taught him better manners than that - and the Buffs gleefully registered another win over the "doubters."

SHILO SANDERS! pick-6!!pic.twitter.com/o4IGNiCofe

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) September 17, 2023

After Shilo's defensive TD, he put on a pair of sunglasses. ... just as before the game, Deion gifted all his players with the same. And now, just as Deion was in the NFL, first with the Falcons and later notably with the Dallas Cowboys, he is center-stage, with the often-lowly Buffs the talk of college football.

“Those ticket prices," said Shilo of CU now boasting the most expensive seats in the sport, "were worth it today."