Deion Sanders is all over the place in college football lately. Despite the Colorado Buffs’ write-off in the Alamo Bowl against the BYU Cougars, Coach Prime didn’t fail to dominate the headlines with his heart-melting tribute to his sons. Shilo Sanders, Shedeur Sanders, and Travis Hunter left Boulder in the wake of their NFL call. Papa Sanders couldn’t control his tears while giving a bite post-the-game, looking back on all the bittersweet memories with his champs through the past two years. Well, it’s not just his son, the $45 million head coach feels mushy about nowadays.

The ever-serious, stringent coach is still a mumma’s boy outside the field. No matter how awkward it feels, even to imagine the 6’1 football giant just like a child whenever the context is his mother, it is what it is. Well, if you know what he owed to his mum, it will make sense. Hold your handkerchiefs, please!

Coach Prime gives an emotive shout out to Mama Prime

Deion Sanders’ mother, Connie Knight, is a self-made woman who fought all her life to give her child a hassle-free life. From the very childhood, Connie has been a rock in his son’s rollercoaster journey in professional football. Being a single mother, it was not a walk in the park to raise kids, but the lady had a heart of gold and a backbone made of iron. After parting ways with her husband Mims Sanders, Connie started to make a little world inside the world with her 2-year-old. Ever since, her world has been revolving around her son. To date, the woman in her 80s pampers her 50+ lad with the same affection and care. They are right when they say a mother never lets her child grow up. However, Connie’s love isn’t just Pappy, which isn’t backed up by action.

“@mommaconnie21 is a REAL1. My mama was just cut different. I never saw the light side of her hands,” Coach Prime hyped up his mother in a heartwarming interview. She taught Deion valuable life lessons not by advice but by example.

The non-materialistic, non-hedonistic approach of his mama helped the veteran coach’s feet on the ground even after the sky-high name and fame. In case you ever wonder how someone so lofty, so classic in his career, could be this humble and nonchalant, this is your answer.

”My ma͏ma never cared about a͏ Louis or͏ Gucci,” S͏anders’ said in the video. “Only thing she wears, only thing she got Meat Coast and everything. My mamma ain’t even into that. My Mama never asked me for a first-class bit.” The lady used to travel six hours to Florida just to watch her son play during the home games and wash his laundry on the weekends. ”Although she never watched me at high school because she worked Monday to Friday,” Sanders talked about her mom.

Imagine this: your son is at the top of the world. After having a sensational college career, he gets into the NFL and takes it like a fish takes to water- effortlessly. Add to that: he is rocking another sport: Baseball. One of the very few who tried and excelled in two sports. Multiple Super-Bowl winner and a magnetic personality on and off the field. If Mama Sanders needed anything, he would have gotten that in a second.

However, Connie Knight comes from humble beginnings, and the way she took to her son’s success is an inspiration in itself. The material wealth will come and go: together, the mother-son duo saw the depth of struggles and the richness of wealth. What never changed is Connie’s outlook towards life and, most importantly, her son.

In another story, let’s take you to the moment when Deion did the best justice to his mom’s ethereal lifestyle.

Deion Sanders stunned his Mama Prime with his high-flying success

Being able to do something for the parents is one of the best feelings in the world. Thankfully, Deion Sanders isn’t deprived of that. Sanders might garner a lot of flakes in his career from all across the nation. People blamed him for being the ambassador of nepotism and called him out for unnecessarily stealing attention, but when it comes to family, the man knows how to be the best son one can ever dream of, the best dad for his children, and the granddad for that matter.

Inside the drawing room, the veteran coach looks very few people in the eyes, and as he sees a heck of pride and love there, he has zero regrets over what anyone else thinks of him at all. A few months back, Sanders took Mama Prime on a small ride around his property. Mama Prime couldn’t stop his overwhelming emotion and uttered in disbelief,” You own all this?”.

Sanders, like those ideal sons you see in superhero series, corrected her a bit and said, ”We won all of this.”

How sweet and fulfilling is it? Probably more than the last bite of your childhood cotton candy!