“Easiest Sport Was Football”: Deion Sanders Humbles NFL Legend By Naming Toughest Sport He Played

Deion Sanders was quite appropriately known as Prime Time. The legendary NFL DB is still one of the greatest to brace the sport of football. While on the side, Sanders has a budding affair with baseball as well. Alongside the NFL, the Neon Deion was also playing in the MLB after coming out of college. Meanwhile, he made his name playing football, he has quite a career in MLB too. Other than these two sports, in college, he was also an active athlete when it came to track and field sports. But now the player has revealed the toughest and the easiest sports from his portfolio.

The former NFL DB recently appeared on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast, Club Shay Shay. Talking to the retired TE, Sanders obliged the curiosity of Sharpe by telling him the toughest and easiest he played. Let’s just say the answer wasn’t what Shannon would have been expecting.

According to Prime Time, football was the easiest sport he played in his life, even though he achieved everything in the sport. To the surprise of many, Sanders’ picked baseball as the most challenging sport. “That ball (baseball) does some things to you. Any sport that you can fail at 7 out of 10 times and become great. And you make 2 to 300 million dollars in it. That’s a hard sport.” Sanders said.

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He later admitted to always being fascinated by the game of baseball simply due to the challenge it held for him. “I love challenges and I could not master it (baseball) and it frustrated me because I hate to lose.” Added Sanders. “I hate I’m not mastering something that I know if I just had more time I could.”

Deion Sanders on a baseball field

Coming out of college, the Atlanta Falcons drafted Sandes in 1989. However, it was not the only professional sports team he was committed to. Prior to his NFL debut, Neon Deion was playing in the MLB for the New York Yankees as an outfielder. When he played for the Atlanta Braves in the MLB, he became the first and still the only player to feature in both a Super Bowl and a world series. Even in the NFL, no one could stop him from creating history. He won two Super Bowls in his career. One with the 49ers and the other with the Cowboys.

Currently, Sanders has become Coach Prime. He is doing more of the same, creating history. The 55-year-old joined JSU in 2020 and has since won two back-to-back SWAC championships with them. He also led the Tigers to their first-ever unbeaten season in his last year at the college. Now coach prime has taken his place as the HC of the Colorado Buffaloes and looking at his history, one can easily say, preparing to take them to the top as well.

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