Score one for Deion

 Say what you want about Deion Sanders and his sunglasses and his brashness and the outside-the-box way he's turned a garbage scow football program at Colorado into an unbeaten dreadnought virtually overnight. All those fans rushing the field in Boulder these days aren't going to hear you anyway.

The football program has gone from crickets to the Beatles in just a few months, and even if you've grown sick already of hearing about Coach Prime, it's a wondrous transformation. And you know what?

The guy who pulled it off, look-at-me though he is, has his priorities straight. Proof of this came in his weekly presser yesterday, when he took up for Colorado State defensive back Henry Blackburn.

In case you've been asleep under your rock for the last few days, Blackburn is the guy who knocked Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter Jr. out of the game Sautrday with one of the egregious dirty hits you're ever likely to see. The play was over, the ball was on the ground, and Blackburn absolutely trucked Hunter anyway. 

America being the nation of asshats it seems to have become, Blackburn began getting death threats shortly thereafter. And Deion went out of his way to call bullshite on that.

"Henry Blackburn is a good player who played a phenomenal game," he said. "He made a tremendous hit on Travis on the sideline. You could call it dirt, you could call it 'He was just playing the game of football.' But whatever it was, it does not constitute that he should be receiving death threats.

"That this is still a young man trying to make it in life ... He does not deserve a death threat over a game."

Score one for Deion. Or another one, as the case may be.