Whoever coined the phrase “no grudges” must have never been to Colorado State or Colorado State University.
Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedul Sanders refused to shake hands with Colorado State Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi after the game, despite winning against Colorado State for the second straight year.
Colorado defeated Colorado State, 28-9.
Sanders appeared to be upset by comments Fowler Nicolosi posted on Instagram.
“I was talking trash on Instagram,” Sanders can be heard saying. “I was talking on Instagram. Our business is our business. Don't bullshit on me.”
Earlier this week, Fowler-Nicolosi made comments suggesting the Buffaloes were the darlings of “hype” and “social media.”
“They went into the game with that attitude and thought it was a breeze,” he said of Colorado's 43-35 win in Boulder last year. “They saw the reports that they were down by 27.5 points. They woke up quickly to the harsh reality. I think it just goes to show that the hype, the media hype, all of that can only help so far.”
“At the end of the day, you have to put 11 players against our 11 players and we'll see who wants to win more. We'll see how far their Instagram following will take them.”
Schedulle wasn't the only member of the Sanders family to take the game personally, as Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders also called out the pregame snide comments.
“It was a great game, a personal game, a heartfelt game, an emotional game,” he said. “That's the way they play. We just want to play football. The disrespect was inappropriate all week. A couple of their players attacked the whole team and a couple of our players, so that's the way it is. So we knew going into the game it was going to be a little bit personal, and it was.”
