Deion Sanders: 1989 Score Football
Player: Deion “Prime Time” Sanders
Card: 1989 Score Football, Card #246
Team/Position: Falcons, Cowboys, 49ers / Cornerback
Cost: $0.50
I absolutely, positively, despise Deion Sanders. As a 49ers fan, it was Deion’s mentoring of Michael Crabtree that finally pushed me over the edge. Sanders is brash and seems to wipe his ass with the mantra, “no man is bigger than the sport“.
Watching Deion play was one thing, but I’d rather listen to the transvestite lovin’ Marv Albert over Deion “Prime Time” Sanders. Deion Sanders provides analysis on how any given football moment will positively or negatively effect a player’s salary.
Without a doubt, Deion Sanders was the best man-coverage cornerback to ever play. Deion changed games with his blazing speed in coverage and in the return game, but he didn’t understand the concept of tackling until very late in his career. Sanders’ take on football was simple: I’m blessed with God-given talent, so pay me a shit-load of money and pay attention to me…Daddy, please pay attention to me! look daddy, I did good. I did real good.
If you were unaware, Deion also played baseball from 1989 to 1997, with a brief return in 1999.
During an at-bat, Sanders drew a dollar sign with his bat knob prior to refusing to run out a routine grounder. Thankfully, Carlton Fisk was catching and had this to say to Sanders,
“I just told him [Deion Sanders] I thought that there was a right way and a wrong way to play the game, and he was playing it wrong, because it offended guys like me. And if he didn’t care to play it right, let’s go at it, right here at home plate.” Carlton Fisk on ESPN Classic’s SportsCentury series.
Sanders was great and could easily shutdown half of the field, but his persona will forever taint his legacy.
Did I mention that I hate Deion Sanders?
Whenever Deion starts stroking his ego too much, I can’t help but think about how well Sanders would fair against the physical offenses of yesteryear. Sanders could cover, but I’d like to see him step up and take on a pulling Jerry Kramer on a Packer-Sweep.
…and oh yah, Kelly Gruber, weighed down by a mullet and gold-chains, tagged your ass biiiatch.
Another person who cant do what Primetime can do so you sit in your moms basement and type away. I find it hard to justify anyone who criticizes a steller once in a lifetime athlete regardless of how cocky or brash. He was an asshole… that I agree with but he could back up every bit of it and then some. Thank God that you were alive during his career and see him play. If had to watch Jerry Kramer and the Packers Id probably die of extreme boredom
God forbid someone criticize an athlete with immense talent! Personally, I’d watch Jerry Kramer pull on a sweep any day over Deion dance like a little bitch.
It’s not my fault that you don’t appreciate the complexities of football.
Skill players have this argument with fat ass linemen all the time. You cant do what I do and I dont want to do what you do. Id rather watch Prime “dance like a little bitch” after a pick six than a lineman grunt and holler after a pancake block. You know as much as I do linemen dont sell tickets, jerseys, or keep anyone tuned in except for losers like you who played on the line at some level. Remember we can play without linemen (passing league) but without the skill players its just wrestling (which is just men groping and falling all over eachother). Primetime redefined the position and rewrote the complexities of the passing game on both sides of the ball. Nothing has changed in lineman play since forever. Maybe if I wasnt blessed with speed, flexibility, hands, and just plain athleticism then I wouldve had a coach throw me on the line and Id feel like you but I was blessed with those things and thankfully I got to play a position where I got to touch the ball and make big plays so I identify with the play maker and not the pulling guard
So how did you feel when he archored the left side of the field during the 49ers last championship??