The one true love of Coach Prime‘s life wishes him an endearing happy birthday! To every boy who tries to climb the ladder of success, somewhere in the back of his mind is a picture of his mother and the struggles she endures to make his life happy. But now that the time for Deion’s mother to continue her hardships has ended, thanks to ‘Prime Time’ himself, they get to be in a phase of life where they celebrate each other’s birthdays with all the lavishness of luxury surrounding them.

As Deion has said it himself, his childhood has been quite a difficult one. Deion made a promise to her at the age of seven to make sure she “never has to work ever again.” Life has definitely come full circle for that 7-year-old boy. As Deion celebrates his 57th birthday today, his mother, who is usually on a hiatus from social media, revived her presence and wished him for the fans to see.

Connie Knight and her special birthday wish for Deion

The man of the hour gets his birthday wishes from his mom with a sweet note attached to it. For someone who’s done everything in his career based on the promise that he made to his mother, and today, ‘Momma Connie’ is wishing her son a happy 57th birthday!

Connie, who isn’t very socially active on Instagram, made an exception today to flaunt her love for Deion and the inexpressible value he holds in her life. She posted a collage of 2 photos of them together and wrote, “Happy Birthday to my son @deionsanders. Wishing you many more! I loveyou.” The bond that the mother-son duo shares continues to be an example to athletes worldwide who hold their mothers to an image of great inspiration. Since it’s such a joyous occasion today, let’s backtrack it a bit and share a beautiful story from Deion Sanders and the promise that he fulfilled for his doting mother.

Deion Sanders and his promise to his mother as a 7-year-old

For someone who’s managed to go on to become one of the most renowned athletes in the history of American sports, the motivation that fueled such a person couldn’t have been a cakewalk. Additionally, Deion Sanders remains to be the only person in sporting history to win a Super Bowl in the NFL and also be a part of the MLB World Series. What needs to happen in a man’s life for him to scale the peak of sports so drastically? Answer, a devotion to make sure his mother never has to work so hard again, and that’s exactly what Deion did.

It was the year 1989 when Deion got drafted by the Atlanta Falcons and fortunately for Connie, that was also the year when she would work a job for the last time in her life. In Deion’s words, “My mother has not worked since 1989 when I signed the dotted line for the Atlanta Falcons. And she would never ever work another day because that was my rabbit in this steel. My mother lives with me. So every time I go home and see her. It’s my rabbit. I’m still chasing that.” Thus, today he’s Coach Prime, and back in the day, he used to be ‘Prime Time’ as an elite NFL defensive lineman, but to his mother, he’s just always been the boy who couldn’t bear to see his mother suffer through the obstacles of life and did everything in his power to turn their lives around. Happy birthday to Deion Sanders, but more importantly, to that 7-year-old boy whose motives serve as an emblem to look up to till this very day.