Deion Sanders Is A Thin-Skinned Baby Man
Deion Sanders is totally a giant baby.
Tony Romo, who Deion Sanders has been quite fond of criticizing over his career, took a snark shot during the Cowboys-Chiefs game about Deion Sanders infamous poor tackling. It was probably the easiest joke in the world. There is no player ever in the league that is as synonymous with “business decisions” as Deion Sanders. He’s a self-admitted non-tackler. Every fan and player of football knows Deion Sanders for a few things: Primetime, High Stepping into the Endzone, Hall of Fame lockdown CB, and not tackling. Deion Sanders not tackling is a football meme, a fact so well known that Tony Romo’s joke wasn’t even particularly inspired. It’s a joke every single one of us has made.
All of this makes Deion’s super serious egotistical response to the zinger as soft as all hell. This would be the biggest bitch move in sports of 2017 if Kevin Durant hadn’t gotten caught defending himself on twitter with fake alt accounts he made.
I hated Deion Sanders when I was growing up. He was a Cowboy, he was loud, he was obnoxious, and worst of all, he was good and backed it all up which made everything worse. There is a reason we all still cling to the “business decision” criticism, it was the only real crack in the dude’s game. He was, and still is, basically the epitome of the perfect heel. If he’s on your team, you love him. If he’s not on your team, you hate him with the passion of a thousand suns.
After I grew up a bit and became more of a football fan instead of just a Giants fan, I realized Deion’s value and hated him less. I respect him a lot as a football player. I respect him as an athlete. I respect the absolute fuck out of his showmanship. Sports needs people like Deion, especially football, which can get so stuck in a rut of “Do your job, act like you’ve been there” stuffiness. We need the Cams, the OBJs, the Richard Shermans, the Marshawn Lynchs to balance out the Matt “literally made of white bread” Ryans. Deion is one of the all time great football players and personalities.
So I liked Deion for a while. I still found his egotisitcal schtick irritating, but I respected him for a while, partially because I figured he was smart enough to essentially be playing a part Skip Bayless style. Playing up the PRIMETIME stuff as part of a schitck. I…don’t know if I believe that anymore. I think Deion Sanders really is an egotistical narcissistic baby who can’t laugh at himself. The more I see of him on TV, on bit parts in TV shows, the more I fully believe he is exactly the thin-skinned full-of-himself jerk we watch on TV. So I respect Deion Sanders for a lot of things, but I do not respect his character. Deion Sanders probably jerks off to pictures of himself. Clothed pictures of himself, because he likes a challenge.
This was pretty much the epitome of that fragile narcissism. Like, this response was so shamefully soft that I’m almost positive Deion would actually call me out somehow if this comic and blog ever came across his eyes, even though I should mean literally nothing to him. Lots of people would back him up because he was “one of the greats”, but Deion sawft. There are so many ways he could have come back at Romo. He could have ignored the small off-the-cuff joke with ease, nobody would have given it a second thought. He could have come back with another zinger, like “I didn’t need to tackle I was too busy running the other way” or specifically zing Romo back with a comment of how he would have caught Romo’s many picks. He could have just laughed at himself and gone “served me and my rings pretty well, I’d say”. So many good avenues to open a friendly zinger war.
Instead he gives the angriest serious comeback he could do and it made him look pathetically thin-skinned.
I loved it. Please call out Deion Sanders more, Tony.
I really want to see Tony crank things up to eleven and put a subtle jab into basically everything he says this week.
“So Tony, you and Deion Sanders had a little bit of a dustup this week.”
“Well yeah Jim, if I’m being honest, I really feel like we could’ve tackled things better. We really whiffed on a chance to sort things out and drill this down instead of letting it just keep running.”
“And _______ just didn’t even try on that tackle.”
“Well you know what an old colleague of ours once said Jim. Shoulders are for suits, not Brandon Jacobs.”
“_______ just got out of the way of _____ on that run!”
“Hey, sometimes, you’ve gotta make a business decision, and that was a prime time business decision right there!”
Why you gotta missuse the word “literally” Dave?
According to Webster’s Dictionary, literally now both means figuratively and the old meaning of literally. Now the English language doesn’t have a word that has the old meaning of literally.
Everyone knows that when someone gets under your skin with petty stuff, you should laugh it off, to hide it, because you don’t want to be known as the kind of thin skinned idiot who can be hurt with petty stuff.
Deion, you are thin skinned, and also an idiot.
“egotistical narcissistic baby who can’t laugh at himself”
the road to the white house
It was made easier by running against someone who is incaable of telling the truth or taking responsibility of her actions.
Clinton and Trump are way more alike than people realize.
Deion though ooh boy I can only imagine what he’s line behind closed doors.
Thank you Fluko. I agree wholeheartedly.
Lol
Replace Deion Sanders with Barry Wagner and you have all Orlando Preds fans.
I always thought Deion was super obnoxious and kind of dumb. He’s not terribly insightful and he is constantly self promoting. Yes, he absolutely deserves to be in the Hall, but I’d be perfectly happy if he wasn’t on TV anymore.
It remembered me of a couple weeks ago when Michael Irvin mocked Steve Smith’s pants and Smith went all serious and “I’mma fuck you up” mode. For someone who was all about being hard, Smith took that waaaay too serious