Colorado coach Deion Sanders called a report involving the school’s fight song and his son, Shedeur Sanders’, theme music “idiotic” on Tuesday when he addressed reporters.
A report surfaced from Denver sports outlet 104.3 THE FAN that the Colorado football coach told the school’s band not to play after his son, Buffaloes QB Shedeur Sanders, scored so that the quarterback’s song “Perfect Timing” could play on the stadium sound system.
Deion Sanders denied that report and the school also issued a statement pushing back on the story.
“Whoever reported that I told the band not to play the fight song, that’s idiotic. Y’all know that,” Sanders told reporters before opening the floor to questions. “Get the facts before you run with false narratives.”
Sanders seemed to be troubled by the fact that the band was dragged into the drama surrounding the football program.
“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 wanted to get personal. So when it gets personal, you got to really think about that. You’ve 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 are just not right.
“We were brought up to love thy neighbor as much as we can.”
In a statement pushing back on the 104.3 THE FAN report, Colorado said the school’s fight songs “Glory, Glory, Colorado” and “Fight CU” “were played every time the Buffaloes scored against North Dakota State” during the season opener on Aug. 29.
The AP reported that during the 31-26 win other pieces of music had briefly been played before the band jumped in.
“It’s common throughout college football for individual players to have small snippets of songs played during games,” the school’s statement read.
The Buffaloes are off to a tough start on the year after losing to Nebraska on Saturday to move to 1-1 on the season.
They will face Colorado State on Saturday night on the road.