Often wearing his signature sunglasses and gold chain, Deion Sanders directed one of the hottest winter dramas in college football this year despite his previous concern about a strange substance that sometimes falls from the sky in Colorado.
Snow.
He wasn’t accustomed to it. He’s from Florida, with recent residences in Texas and Mississippi. He also said he never played in it during his 14 years in the NFL. “God has blessed me that much,” Sanders said last month.
But then he got hired as the new head coach of the Colorado football team in early December, setting up a winter unlike any other for him and his new employer.