Colorado Buffaloes Head Coach Deion Sanders recently thanked God for his latest opportunity with his talks how “We Got Time Today.” Coach Prime explained how the platform will be an invaluable tool to accomplish a number of goals.
“It puts me in front of another whole audience to not only inform and enlighten and encourage and motivate, but to recruit, really go out to recruit,” Sanders recently said. “I really can’t, because coaches hate…If I go visit this guy down the street and they go to the school around the corner, now they hating on me. But now I have this platform, so I can get your mama, your grandma, your grandfather, you know, Rocsi [Diaz’s] people. I can get everybody.”
Sanders continued, noting the capabilities the show will provide in allowing him to be “authentic” and reach a wide audience. “But I’m just sitting up there talking, just being authentic,” he said. “So it’s another mechanism that you’ve given me to be able to reach people, and that’s what the goal is.” Speaking about his show on social media, Sanders said, “Thank You God.”
“We speak to the culture. I mean, just the name of the show alone, WE GOT TIME TODAY,” co-host Rsoci Diaz said about the highly anticipated show. “Deion and I are bringing together demographics and audiences that grew up with us, that know us and that speak the same language as us as well…So this is something for us now that we get to address issues and topics that that are in everyday households.”
Furthermore, Sanders said “this is something that I would have done had I not put my kids first at a certain time in my life.” He added, “I was [previously] interviewed and accepted a position, and I was going to have to move to New York and then relocate to do it, and I really didn’t want to do that. In some form of fashion, God stripped it away at the last minute and I didn’t have to do it, which ended up being a blessing, because [I was a] full-time father at the time and wanted to raise my kids properly. But this is something I always wanted to do now, to have a second shot at it, and to have a host like Rocsi doing her thing … It’s a blessing.”
The Christian Tribune recently reported on controversy Coach Sanders was faced with regarding his outspoken Christian faith. After the Colorado Buffaloes hosted a team prayer last month, the atheist activist group the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote a letter to the university threatening action.
“It’s come to our attention that Coach Sanders has continued to entangle the university’s football program with religion and engage in religious exercises with students and staff,” the activist group said. “We request notification in writing of the actions the university is taking to ensure that Coach Sanders will cease proselytizing student athletes for good,” the group added.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation was referencing when Pastor E. Dewey Smith of House of Hope Church in Atlanta, Georgia led the team in a prayer. Smith said in the viral prayer, “God, we thank you tonight for victory, thank you that you kept us relatively safe. Thank you that in spite of our imperfections you still blessed us, Lord. And thank you for being with us to the end. Lord, some people call it Hail Mary, some people call it karma, some people call it luck, but in my faith tradition we call it Jesus.”
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