Deion Sanders received ‘multiple threats’ during Colorado football season, bodyguard says

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders received a “very credible threat” that two people were going to try to assault him last September, among other threats he faced throughout the year, his bodyguard said in the new season of the “Coach Prime” documentary series.

Sanders’ bodyguard, Michael Rhodes, also revealed he uses nitrile gloves to handle Sanders’ mail and runs the mail through a machine to detect hazardous materials.

Before the Colorado State game Sept. 14, Rhodes even said multiple law enforcement agencies got involved to monitor his safety after receiving “multiple threats concerning people trying to do harm to Coach,” including a threat that two people “were trying to possibly tackle Coach, either before, during or after the game.”

Rhodes said he makes a practice of sending death threats to police and the FBI.

“I have to keep my head on a swivel” Rhodes said. “I have to keep my eyes open. I really have to watch the crowd, pay attention to everybody’s body language, facial expressions, hands, because everybody doesn’t love Coach. … With all of the death threats, I don’t know who is who. I’ve got one job, and that’s to make sure that Coach is good, to make sure he’s safe, so he can go out and coach the team to a victory.”

Rhodes provided these details in Season 3 of “Coach Prime,” which debuted Tuesday on Amazon Prime Video. The new series covers the 2024 Colorado football season under Sanders and runs five episodes, all of which became available to stream on Tuesday.

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders watches warmups before a November game at Arrowhead Stadium.

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Publish date : 2025-01-08 00:38:00

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