Deion Sanders responds to Texas Tech fans throwing objects onto field

If it had just been tortillas being thrown on the field when Colorado played at Texas Tech this weekend, Deion Sanders really would’ve paid it no mind. His son, Shedeur, even signed on that got thrown his way.

But when bottles and other harder, heavier objects started to rain on the field, that’s when he started having a problem. Because that’s when it could’ve become a dangerous situation for his team.

“I don’t care about the tortillas or however you enunciate it, but when they start throwing water bottles and small alcoholic bottles, now I’m thinking about the safety of our team, so I’m thinking about that,” Sanders said on his weekly coaches radio show. “So we question that as well. Other things, they’re soft, they’re not going to hurt anybody. It is what it is. It’s tradition there, OK, let’s go through it, let’s deal with it.” 

In the immediate aftermath of the game, a come-from-behind win for Colorado, Sanders struck a humorous tune about the whole ordeal.

“They were throwing everything but my mama at me,” Sanders said postgame. “In my career … I played baseball and football, so batteries and all kind of stuff. So this is normal. So we try to prepare our young men for that. Thank God tortillas … are soft, it’s not hard, but when they start doing the water bottles and those other objects, that’s when you gotta alarm the officials and say, okay. So it’s one thing, but, you know, water bottles and other things, that gets a little crazy. But I’m thankful, I think Joey (McGuire) grabbed the microphone and tried … 

“He said, ‘Man, I apologize.’ I said, ‘No, I had to do it last week. I had to do the same thing. I had to grab the microphone and talk to our students as well.’”

And on his coaches show days later, Sanders re-iterated a similar point.

“But I’ve got a lot of respect for Joey, Coach McGuire for going out there and saying something to his fans,” Sanders said. “And I said, ‘You know what, I had to do the same thing the week before.’ Because we were idiotic throwing stupid stuff out there on the field which I don’t know why. That’s not our tradition. I don’t know where you get that from. I think everybody was just up there high. That’s really what it was. That’s really what it was.”