The Deion Sanders-coached Colorado Buffaloes got another taste of top-ranked college football on Saturday and were humbled in a 42-6 blowout loss.
To some, including SiriusXM College Sports Radio host Danny Kanell, seeing Sanders, his sons and their team embarrassed on a national platform was good because it will quell some of the buzz around the program as a potential national power on the rise. There has been much hype and fanfare surrounding the program in Boulder since hiring Sanders as their head coach in the spring.
Oregon head coach Dan Lanning went viral ahead of the Ducks game, telling his team in their locker room pre-game that Sanders and the Buffaloes were out trying to get clicks while the Ducks were trying to get wins.
ESPN’s Robert Griffin III on Saturday evening tweeted that Lanning was just trying to do his job in the moment, which was hype his kids up to play a high-profile game and folks were eating it up. He wondered why Sanders was getting hate for essentially doing the same thing.
Kanell quote tweeted RGIII saying ESPN had grown an affinity for Sanders, and people loved what they saw from Oregon because they were tired of so much coverage of Colorado.
Griffin laid out some recent facts about the Buffs since Sanders arrived and chalked the former ESPN Radio host up as a hater.
Danny responded asking why Griffin hadn’t jumped on the bandwagons of other turnaround programs like Tulane, Duke and Kansas, before RGII posted a screenshot from 2021 of him showing support for the direction head coach Lance Leipold was taking the Jayhawks. Griffin mentioned the fact that he was on the broadcast of Tulane’s upset win over USC in the Cotton Bowl in January and that he has given his stance on Duke.
The back and forth continued into Sunday, where Kanell posted some screenshots of his own tweets where he has not been overly critical or hating on Sanders.
But Griffin appeared to get the final word, posting a clip of Kanell throwing an interception on Monday Night Football back in the day when he was quarterback of the New York Giants.
