“I’m not talking to you. I don’t talk to minor league media, and you are minor league,” Deion Sanders once told a reporter.
The most interesting part of the 2025 NFL draft so far has proven to be that the ‘suits’ have said they don’t need Shedeur Sanders. And your guess, and mine, is as good as anyone not doing the calling.
Short and sweet. I don’t watch a lot of NFL football. Haven’t since Kaepernick.
And of course, last year the same 49ers had a player that refused to play when he was called into the game – De’Vondre Campbell.
I’m sorry, but there’s a values and character disconnect with it that I live peaceably without.
But I did grow interested Thursday night when sometime near the end of the first round I saw a trailer on TV that said Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders – son of Deion – had not been drafted in the first round. Two other quarterbacks had, but he had not!
And by this time you know that through rounds two and three, which concluded on Friday night, Sanders had still not been drafted, and the question being asked throughout every medium of television – even National Public Radio – was why had he not?
Stephen A…..
Greeny….
Cowherd….
Herbstreit….
Everyone had an opinion, professionally, and unprofessionally, and someone probably blamed it on racism, of course. But how can that be when 75% of the other other players being drafted ARE black?
But how about this. How many of you are simply tired of hearing about Deion and Shedeur Sanders?
How many will never pay attention to Colorado football again, as long as Sanders is the coach, because you’re simply tired of the constant marketing of Deion – those commercials with the ‘Coach Prime’ pigeon wearing the white hat pitching Direct TV?
“Don’t question ‘Coach Prime’.”
How many of you who know football question that baggage – the name, the legacy, and the expense?
And how many NFL owners are thinking the same thing? It’s just football, for sure, but they’re all good business men.
Or, how many of you simply don’t care? Or believe that sometimes you can talk yourself, or your offspring, right out of an opportunity by just being too much of what you are?
Presidents of the United States can do it…or maybe they can’t. But it’s not necessarily the case with football coaches, and football players.
You can ask yourself if it’s bias with the name. Or is it, in fact, not bias. Just fatigue.
Publisher Sonny Fulks writes OHSAA sports and the Buckeyes for Press Pros Magazine.
You can question if it’s fair, because God knows that ‘fair’ is the measuring stick of everything in America. You can never be tired of not being fair.
You can try and convince yourself that none of it matters in football because what does matter is if you produce on the field.
Or, you can recall how you once finally decided on the girl you wanted to take to the prom – the one who believed she was too good for you, or the one who genuinely appreciated being asked?
I know that eventually Sanders will be drafted, but his status may forever be impacted because of his and his father’s arrogance over not being asked first. They say humility is life’s greatest motivator, but you still have to have some – humility, that is.
Some now question if he was that good to begin with; and Mel Kiper, another football blowhard with an ego bigger than the federal debt doesn’t know what to say, because…he said he was his #1 overall pick!
Your dad probably told you at one point of growing up that it never hurts to get knocked down a peg or two. He was usually right.
And we’re about to see for ourselves, when Shedeur Sanders finally gets his call…if, and how he answers it.
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