Deion Sanders shocks sports fans with his opinion about which sport was the hardest to play

Deion Sanders shocks sports fans with his opinion about which sport was the hardest to play AP

Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders is one of the best athletes of all time, and therefore, his take on professional sports is that of someone with plenty of knowledge.

A member of the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 1990s as both a cornerback and a punt returner, Sanders earned his place on the football Hall of Fame.

Deion Sanders shocks sports fans with his opinion about which sport was the hardest to play

Despite his electrifying talents as a return man, Sanders was more widely regarded as a “shutdown corner” during his career. He was named first-team All-Pro nine times at cornerback in addition to receiving All-NFL acclaim by some media outlets as a kick returner in 1992 and as a punt returner in 1998. He was also elected to eight Pro Bowls during his career.

Sanders shocks sports fans with his opinion about baseball

Deion Sanders showed his incredible athleticism when he played nine seasons in Major League Baseball between 1989 and 2001. “Prime Time” had stints with the New York Yankees, the Atlanta Braves, the Cincinnati Reds, and the San Francisco Giants.

And during an interview with tight end Hall of Famer and internet celebrity Shannon Sharpe, Deion Sanders was asked which sport was the easiest and the hardes to play: basketball, football, track and field or baseball. “Prime Time’s” response might shock a lot of sports fans from both leagues.

“The easiest sport was football. (The hardest was) baseball. That ball does some things to you. Any sport that you can failed seven out of ten times and become great and make $200, $300 million, that’s a hard sport right there,” Sanders said, as he added that he stuck to baseball because of the challenge it represented for him.

The Deion Sanders’ effect in Colorado

The Colorado Buffaloes have officially sold out of season tickets for the 2025 football season, selling out for the third straight season in the Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders Era, and for the 11th time in school history. It’s one of the major effects of the legendary football player arrival in Boulder.

This is now the third time, all under Coach Prime, that season tickets have sold out before August of the upcoming football season. Before the 2023 season, it had been 27 years since the last sellout of season tickets, which occurred during a seven-year stretch from 1990 to 1996.

Colorado also achieved a season ticket renewal rate of 98 percent for the third consecutive season, marking the top three marks and three of only a handful of renewals over 90 percent in school history. The Buffs also expanded season ticket inventory by 13 percent to meet the demands of the expanding fan base.