Thirty minutes into the first game of his major college coaching career, Deion Sanders paused at midfield for an interview. This was in early September, when Colorado led 17th-ranked TCU by a field goal, and when the season’s possibilities were still infinite.
Those of us who are well versed in the tropes of college football know that the halftime interview is engineered for monotony: A coach hurriedly answers two anodyne questions, projects an air of authority, and trots to the locker room. But to Sanders—Coach Prime, to us mere mortals—this was something else. This was a live opportunity to show America that he was no ordinary football coach.
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