#2 was scratched from the list of jersey numbers available for future Colorado Buffaloes players. Just three months after his college football career ended, Deion Sanders’ youngest son, Shedeur Sanders, retired his jersey. It is currently located in Folsom Field, Buffalo’s home stadium.
Most athletes have to wait years for such an honor. Sometimes the standards are bent in the case of extraordinary players and tragic deaths. Neither applies to Chedure.
Jason Whitlock says the movement to retire from his jersey screams and potentially predicts Dion’s exit.
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Rashaan Salaam, the first Heisman Trophy winner at the University of Colorado, had to wait 23 years for the jersey to retire, Jason says. Compare it with Chedur. Chedur gets “spanking in his only bowl game appearance” after going 13-12, 1-8 against top 25 opponents.
“He’s like George Floyd from college football and has not received statues, tributes or monuments,” he added.
At a press conference, Deion was asked about the controversial decision to retire from Shedeur’s jersey. Clearly upset, he said, “If his last name wasn’t Sanders, there would not be this argument.”
“Yes, because unless his last name is Sanders, his number won’t retire,” Jason says. “Dion Sanders transformed his son into a sugar baby. He made him an idol.”
Sanders went on to argue that waiting to wait for someone to honor is outdated and that we are in the “now generation” where instant gratification is the norm.
“I will give you your flowers now. I am not going to wait 20 years on the street, and I am not going to bring you back when you limp and barely walk, or some tragedy recognize your greatness and that you contributed to this program,” he said.
“It’s all we get right now. We want something. We’re ordering Amazon now. We’re not in the waiting generation anymore. It’s not over.
He may be right about the nature of our culture that is obsessed with our present, but that doesn’t mean that we should accept it as a good thing.
“It’s idolatry,” says Jason. “I’m embarrassed by Deion Sanders.”
“Fearless” guest Steve Kim said, “When I said that if his name wasn’t Sanders, we wouldn’t have talked about it, it’s the most uniform self-owned I’ve ever seen. “Yeah, coach, we all agree.”
“I know that many of the great Colorado Buffalo, who have a massive 1990 joint national championship ring that built that program, are not happy about this,” he says.
Steve argues that the real reason for Chedur’s jerseys to retire is not because we are in the “current generation,” but because “Deion Sanders has leverage at this point.”
Jason agrees. “This screams that this is Dion’s final year in Colorado,” because if he had planned to stay, he would have been waiting for more than three months to retire from his son’s jersey.
To hear more about the conversation, check out the clip above.
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