Deion Sanders addresses Colorado State trash talk ahead of Showdown: ‘That’s too easy’

Jul 10, 2024; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders speaks to the media during the Big 12 Media Days at Allegiant Stadium.

The Rocky Mountain Showdown is personal once again.

It was a relatively quiet lead up to Saturday’s rivalry game between Colorado and Colorado State, until it wasn’t.

A media day interview with CSU quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and star receiver Tory Horton recorded in August surfaced online Wednesday night. The duo shared their thoughts on last season’s double-overtime thriller won by the Buffs.

“We owe them one and that’s just something that’s been sitting on everybody’s mind since we came back from break,” Horton said in a video posted by Romi Bean of CBS. “I don’t feel like we left it all out on the field because we should have murdered them guys.”

“The hype, the media train, all of that, it only gets you so far,” Fowler-Nicolosi added. “At the end of the day, you have to line up 11 guys against our 11 guys, and we’ll find out who wants it more. We’ll see how far Instagram followers gets them.”

“We should have murdered them guys …we’re coming for revenge”

“We’ll see how far instagram followers gets them”

Here’s what CSU’s Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and Tory Horton had to say about last year’s Rocky Mountain Showdown and the upcoming game against CU: pic.twitter.com/51ZBPyigpf

— Romi Bean (@Romi_Bean) September 12, 2024

Inevitably, word quickly got back to Deion Sanders and the Colorado football team.

Sanders was asked about the CSU duo’s comments Thursday on the Colorado football coaches show.

“It makes it personal again,” Sanders said. “It makes you think like, ‘Oh, OK.’ Because you analyze it as an adult. Kids don’t. They just get mad. You analyze it as an adult and you say, ‘OK, I see why you said that.’ And you know what’s…

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Author : The Coloradoan

Publish date : 2024-09-13 01:34:17

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