{"id":1294,"date":"2023-09-05T00:11:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/05\/deion-sanders-expresses-gratitude-to-god-following-colorado-buffaloes-victory-against-tcu\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T00:11:32","slug":"deion-sanders-expresses-gratitude-to-god-following-colorado-buffaloes-victory-against-tcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/05\/deion-sanders-expresses-gratitude-to-god-following-colorado-buffaloes-victory-against-tcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Deion Sanders Expresses Gratitude to God following Colorado Buffaloes’ Victory against TCU"},"content":{"rendered":"


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New University of Colorado head coach, Super Bowl winner and NFL Hall of Famer, Deion ‘Coach Prime’ Sanders, thanked Jesus and his supporters who believed in him Saturday after his underdog team, the Colorado Buffaloes, beat the No. 17 ranked TCU Horned Frogs 45-42 to secure an upset win in their debut game of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, Jesus. I’m so thankful right now,\u201d Sanders declared in a post-game interview with Fox Sports<\/a> during which his quarterback son, Shedeur Sanders, praised his father\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a blessing. Everybody, Buff Nation who supported us and all the hood that had my back. I thank y’all. God this is good,\u201d added Sanders before ripping into all his doubters who didn\u2019t believe he would have been able to turn the team around.<\/p>\n

The win over TCU is remarkable because it was the Horned Frogs’ first game since they made a College Football Playoff National Championship game appearance earlier this year. Colorado only won one game in their last season<\/a> and hadn\u2019t scored a top 20<\/a> win on the road since 2002.<\/p>\n

Sanders, a Christian who often sounded like a pastor or a motivational speaker during his post-match press conferences, pointed out how many sports journalists questioned what he was doing when he brought in 86 new players<\/a> to remodel the team after he was hired as Colorado\u2019s head coach.<\/p>\n

He said they questioned why he gave his son \u2014 who transferred from the historically black Jackson State<\/a> University to play for his father \u2014 the starting quarterback position.<\/p>\n

\u201cShedeur Sanders? From the HBCU?\u201d he asked a journalist. \u201cThe one that played at Jackson last year? The one that you asked me why I\u2019d give him the starting job? Wasn\u2019t that you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were supposed to be on the other side interviewing them [TCU]. Now what?\u201d Sanders asked. \u201cWe had some guys that singled themselves out with their play \u2014 a lot of guys you doubted, one of them from an HBCU. I think he had 510 yards passing in a Power 5 football game and he happens to be my son.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wide receiver Travis Hunter, who also transferred from Jackson State University, was a key member of the Colorado team that secured the win over TCU. Sanders referred to him as his \u201cother son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to tell you, but you ain\u2019t wanna believe me because I\u2019m just a lofty young coach,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cI don\u2019t know nothing about football. I just played in the NFL for 14 (years), played at a high level in college for four and have been coaching youth all the way up for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders said he wasn\u2019t rattled by the people who doubted him and his players because he had expected constant questioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to continuously be questioned because we do things that have never been done \u2026 and that makes people uncomfortable,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cWhen you sit up here and see a confident black man talking his talk, walking his walk, and coaching 75 percent African Americans in the locker room, that\u2019s kinda threatening. We\u2019re going to consistently do what we do. I\u2019m here and I ain\u2019t going nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders, who said in a 2018 interview with Andscape<\/a> that a suicide attempt led him to God, has been committed to living a faith-first lifestyle since.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe you can be at your optimum without your faith,\u201d he said. \u201cSports is sports, it\u2019s a game. My faith is everything. It\u2019s the gas that propels the courage, the truth, keeps me going. It\u2019s the wind, it\u2019s the wings, it\u2019s the air that pumps into my lungs that provokes me to live. Faith is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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