Deion Sanders blasts 'idiotic' report he pressured Colorado band about fight song, demands 'accountability'

On Sept. 7, Denver Sports 104.3 reported that Colorado head coach Deion Sanders had told the school’s band not to play the program’s fight song when quarterback Shedeur Sanders scored touchdowns. Instead, Deion Sanders reportedly wanted his son’s song, “Perfect Timing,” to play over the stadium’s loudspeakers.

On Tuesday, the 57-year-old head coach addressed these reports head-on.

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“Whoever reported that I told the band not to play the fight song, that’s idiotic,” Sanders said. “Y’all know that. When you saw that, you know that was a lie. We got to start having some kind of accountability to this. I understand that this is a free and open world and that everybody is not a journalist, everybody’s not an analyst.

“Everybody really hasn’t put in a lot of the work to do what you all do. Thankful for many of you all to take your job and your craft serious, and consequently, you get facts before you run with false narratives. But please know that that stuff affects people [and] me. You’ve been attacking me my whole life, so I’m good. But other people that’s involved — band members, Buffs faithful and alumni and all that — sometimes they don’t know what to believe.”

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This isn’t the first time Sanders has taken issue with the media this season. In August, Colorado banned The Denver Post columnist Sean Keeler from asking questions at Colorado’s press conference due to his “personal attacks” on Sanders.

Earlier in the same month, Sanders shut down a journalist at a press conference due to his affiliation with CBS. On Tuesday, Sanders again pleaded with the media to check their facts before reporting unverified information.

“Oftentimes in life, we believe the first thing we hear, in which we shouldn’t,” Sanders said. “I just would challenge you to be more responsible with your reporting. I never want to get personal. So when it gets personal, you got to really think about that. You got to understand I have a huge platform. I could really get personal if I wanted to, but I choose not to do that, because that’s not right.

“Some things in life is just not right. And I don’t want to go there, and I won’t go there, but think about it. Just my family alone, the platform is enormous. If we really wanted to go there, we could go there, but we would never do that. We weren’t raised like that. We weren’t brought up like that. We were brought up to love thy neighbor as much as we can.”