Deion Sanders retains fascinating and fascinating audiences

As soon as upon a time, Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones spent some huge cash to convey Deion Sanders to Dallas. Would Jones attempt to do it with the most popular coach in all of sports activities? Jones wasn’t requested that particular query throughout a Sunday post-game dialogue with reporters. But it surely’s clear that Jerry believes in Deion.

“Let me inform you one thing,” Jones stated of Deion. “He’s a hell of a coach. He’s a hell of a coach.”

Can Jerry see Deion teaching within the NFL?

“He influences folks and naturally that’s a part of it within the NFL,” Jerry stated. “However I don’t wish to go there as a result of you recognize the place that begins going each which method. However [Deion] can affect and trigger along with his stature, his substance, what he’s, in addition to his personal persona, having the ability to get inside and work with you on a person foundation. I’m a product of that with him.”

Past influencing gamers, Deion delivers. Saturday night time’s late-starting (and really late-finishing) Colorado State-Colorado sport gave ESPN its fifth greatest school soccer ranking EVER, with a mean of 9.3 million viewers. Within the age of widespread wire slicing, that’s beautiful. Additionally, Colorado has utterly bought out all of its dwelling video games for the primary time ever, by way of TheAthletic.com.

The affect goes past soccer video games. Through Austin Karp of Sports activities Enterprise Journal, the season premiere of 60 Minutes, that includes a profile of Deion, drew the largest viewers for the present since January 2021, with 11.8 million viewers.

Sure, it helps that the present had an enormous lead-in viewers from Jets-Cowboys (25.8 million). Nonetheless, many caught round, presumably for extra Deion.

The sports activities world can’t get sufficient of Deion. And that could possibly be sufficient to get some proprietor on the market to develop into keen to attempt to put collectively a monetary provide that can make Deion, who advised Wealthy Eisen final week that he doesn’t assume he can inspire wealthy NFL gamers, keen to no less than give it a attempt.