Posted on 04/26/2025 10:12:30 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account to berate NFL owners for not drafting Shedeur Sanders in the first round.
Sanders is a quarterback who entered the draft after playing with the University of Colorado Buffaloes, where his father Deion Sanders is the head coach.
The elder Sanders had a standout athletic career, playing football, baseball, and track at Florida State University before playing professional football and baseball, racking up championships and individual honors in both sports. Deion Sanders has won two Super Bowls and is in both the College Football Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Shedeur Sanders was the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year, and, as ESPN’s Stephen Holder put it, “a unique prospect in terms of his huge celebrity and personality, matched only by his immense confidence,” making him “among the most debated prospects entering the draft.”
Both father and son had boastfully predicted he would be snapped up in the first round of the NFL draft this year. That did not happen.
After Thursday’s picks wrapped without his name being called, Sanders was disappointed but “appeared upbeat,” ESPN reported, telling family and friends gathered where he was watching the draft in Texas that he “didn’t expect this, of course…but I feel like with God, anything’s possible — everything’s possible.”
“I don’t feel like this happened for no reason,” he added. “All this is of course fuel to the fire. Under no circumstance — we all know this shouldn’t have happened. But we understand, we’re on to bigger and better things. Tomorrow’s the day. We’re going to be happy regardless.”
Friday afternoon, Trump blasted the NFL owners who had passed on Sanders, writing:
What is wrong with NFL owners, are they STUPID? Deion Sanders was a great college football player, and was even greater in the NFL. He’s also a very good coach, streetwise and smart! Therefore, Shedeur, his quarterback son, has PHENOMENAL GENES, and is all set for Greatness. He should be “picked” IMMEDIATELY by a team that wants to WIN. Good luck Shedeur, and say hello to your wonderful father!
So far, neither Deion nor Shedeur Sanders has posted on social media reacting to the president’s post, although Deion Sanders has posted several tweets over the past few days in support of his son or blasting his critics.
Trump is forgetting that the entire NFL took a knee to show their fealty to The Deep State.
We just won the World Series!
Yeah, in six games!
He played in a mediocre conference and did OK. And everybody assumes his dad is going to be a distraction. And half of everybody thinks his dad is going to lobby to become the coach. So him falling to the 5th round was actually quite predictable. And probably not wrong either.
Trump thinks genes matter.
What is he thinking?
Professional athletes sons hardly ever succeed and are never better than their fathers.
Sure it’s happens once in a while.
But Patrick Mahomes, Stephen Curry, Fernando Tatis, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. haven’t made much of name for themselves have they?
This just proves what a disaster in the making this is.
I’d rather Trump focus on mass deportations—without promising them the opportunity to return with legal status:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/hilarious-white-house-issues-epic-threat-illegal-aliens/
Just curious, did Neon Dion have any involvement with P.Diddy?
Both flamboyant personalities, sort of cut from the same cloth, if you know what I mean.
Perhaps there’s a reason no one wants the kid. Just asking.
His father is the reason no one wants him.
“A comment I read was that the kid wasn’t mobile enough, and he tended to hold on to the ball too long.”
Mobility is something that cannot be taught; but a good QB coach can teach a QB to release the ball more quickly.
He’s a prima donna attention whore as a FNG. Owners want to avoid a guy like him. Sows discord.
“a unique prospect in terms of his huge celebrity and personality, matched only by his immense confidence,”
These days that can be more trouble than it’s worth.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden congratulated all the colored kids who got drafted.
He wasn’t needed or wanted
Don’t forget “The Kid”
Maybe he refused a CAT scan:
Interesting. I was not familiar with the incident so had to look it up.
https://thisdayinbaseball.com/prime-time-and-carlton-fisk-square-off/
Take a look at his performance in the Bowl game against BYU.... he got destroyed. Now, add 2x speed to the game and see what happens to him
Last year i was standing in line at a gas station to pay for my purchases and they had the TV on. Yup, little mouthy was on yaping about how great a ball player, etc. Showed him drawing his sign on the dirt at home plate with his bat.
I said out loud. That son of a bitch did that and i was the pitcher, the next one would be a fast ball right at his head.
Guy behind me laughed and said that happened more than you think. That guy was Carlton Fisk. Nobody knew who he was, but i did. We talked just for a moment and away we went. Guess they were down visiting friends and all that.
Real ball players are a rarity. Fisk was one.
Great story! Fisk was part of that great 1975 Red Sox team that came so close to winning it all. To my mind, the ‘75 Red Sox/Reds World Series was the greatest World Series ever.
I also met a backup catcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates when Orlando and Roberto and all those guys played.
We talked baseball for at least an hour.
We both agreed, the players today would have a hard time playing back in the day. Like he said. They played for the game and the team. Now they play for themselves.
Elder black guy...could hardly walk his knees were so bad. Dont remember his name.
He lived near here.
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