Shedeur Sanders, Travis Hunter joke about playing spring game in the snow

When Colorado hosted its annual spring game on Saturday, it had the unique position of having the game on a day when snow was falling in the middle of April. That was quite the shock for many of Deion Sanders‘ players.

Grounds crews had to scrape a good layer of snow off the field before any action could happen.

Players woke up surprised by the sudden change in the weather, which necessitated some warmer gear for the annual spring game on Saturday.

“I went to sleep kind of early last night, so when I woke up this morning I ain’t know it was snowing,” star transfer Travis Hunter said. “So when I finally walked out the door to come here to campus it was snowing, so I was like ‘I don’t know about this one, coach, we might have to play in the indoor.'”

Colorado, of course, would not play in the indoor practice facility, instead showing up and showing out for a sellout crowd of 47,277 for a memorable spring game in the snow.

For a team that won just won game a year ago, it’s easy to see the kind of energy and passion Sanders has brought to the program since taking the head coaching job. And though it’s not expected to be an easy rebuild, it’s one that has clearly already begun.

Even in the snow.

“It was nice,” Hunter said. “I hope the pictures come out well, I hope the film came out well. It wasn’t that cold for me.”

The concern over the pictures turning out well cracked up quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who took to the podium after the spring game alongside Hunter. He, too, would like to get some fresh shots.

“I need my pictures too,” Sanders said. “All the photographers on the sideline, end zone, I need them. I don’t know where they go, all those cameras, all those pictures, but we never get those pictures.”

The two standouts from the spring game discussed their own brushes with severe cold weather in the past.

Neither had actually played in snow before Saturday.

“I never played in the snow,” Hunter said of the spring game. “I played when it was super cold, but once we got out there it wasn’t that cold.”

Added Sanders, who stole the show with an impressive performance in the winter conditions on Saturday:

“I ain’t never played in the snow before. I’ve played in extreme cold weather, but not like that. It was real fun going out there. I’m warming up, I’m like, ‘Man, it’s ice and everything everywhere.’ But the grounds crew, they did an amazing job. The ball’s wasn’t wet. Everything was like cool.”