Okay I’ve sat in the cut watching folks attack Deion Sanders for the past several days and I can’t take it anymore. The disrespect is unbearable. I’ve been covering college football and the NBA for the past 11 years mixing in a couple a years covering the NFL’s Colts as well.
Sure, most reporters call the coaches by their first name while interviewing them and it’s not a big deal. We’re all grown men and women right?
So yes, initially Deion was on one when he told the reporter, “Don’t call me Deion, you don’t call Nick Saban, Nick, so don’t call me Deion.”
However, once a grown man tells you not to call him by his first name. You’ve got two options. You either call him what he wants to be called or don’t talk to him. The reporter tried to punk him by saying “I call Nick, Nick and I’ll call you Deion! Deion!”
That’s where the exchange went off the rails. Take a look at the video if you haven’t seen it.
I don’t know where you’re from but that was straight disrespectful and Deion Sanders, Coach Prime, if you’re nasty! Had every right to get up and walk out.
And for all of the clown reporters that are defending this reporter for totally disrespecting the very coach that he was sent to Birmingham to interview sound crazy. The newspaper sent him to to the SWAC Media Day to talk to the biggest name at the event and at the end of the day he got nothing trying to prove a point.
While everybody is praising him for being disrespectful. He never did his freaking job!
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! For all of the folks that want to act like our history in this country didn’t play a HUGE factor in why Coach Prime got up and walked off. Let me break it down for you and tell you what Deion Sanders and every other black person in America that is “conscious” of our history heard.
This was a black man in the south telling a white man to give him some respect. The white man essentially told him to shut up and I’m going to call you whatever I want to call you and you’re going to take. So answer my freaking question.
If you didn’t hear that in the tone of the reporter’s response. You’ve had a totally different privileged experience in America.
I’ve sat through thousands of interviews both at the collegiate level and professional level and ole boy was dead wrong in the way he came at Coach Prime once he was told not to call him Deion. It doesn’t matter how you feel about him not wanting to be called by his first name. The reporter had a job to do and never did it. He was the one who failed not Deion Sanders. So stop praising the guy that wasted the company’s money by going all the way to Birmingham to interview Deion Sanders but never did. Stop me when I start lyin’!
