That ol' disrespect card

 Deion Sanders' son Shilo has your Excellent Question for this morning, and don't ever tell me college kids don't see the world as clearly as the rest of us. They can, for instance, watch a guy punch himself in the face and wonder what that's all about.

The specific guy we're talking about here is Colorado State football coach Jay Norvell.

Shilo's response was to ask why guys like Norvell keep doing this.

By "this", he meant make it easy for Deion to pull out the disrespect card again, which he doesn't frequently no matter how he has to stretch it out of shape. Last weekend, for instance, Colorado knocked the stuffing out of Nebraska, and Deion's other son -- the Buffaloes star quarterback Shedeur -- said it was because Nebraska coach Matt Rhule disrespected his pops and stood on the Buffs logo at midfield during warmup.

This was pretty thin stuff, but then the disrespect card draws sustenance from thin stuff all the time. Sometimes comically thin stuff.

The latest?

Norvell, whose Rams play Colorado tomorrow in the traditional rivalry game, said he thought it was disrespectful of Deion not to take off his hat and shades during news conferences.

"When I talk to grownups, I take my har and glasses off. That's what my mother taught me," Norvell said on his weekly radio show.

And, OK, so that's some pretty thin stuff, not to mention a bit silly, not to mention plain dumb. Because of course Deion and ran with it. 

"Now he's messing with my mama," Deion said on video this week. "It was just gonna be a good game and they done messed around and made it personal. I'm minding my own business watching some film, trying to get ready, trying to get out here and be the best coach that I could be, and I look up and I read some bull junk that they said about us, once again."

So now the disrespect card is out once more. And once more it's disrespect largely manufactured by and allegedly disrespected.

First off: Norvell never said a word about Deion's mama. He said a word about his mama.

Second off: In other parts of the interview to which he referred, he praised the job Sanders has done in Boulder, and especially praised Shedeur Sanders for playing "at a very high level" and presenting Colorado State with the major task of slowing him down.

Of course, then he laid down HIS disrespect card.

"Our kids came out of those (ESPN College Gameday) interviews really with a chip on their shoulder," Norvell said. "They're tired of all that stuff. They really are tired of it."

Presumably, what he meant was his players are tired of hearing about Colorado and how the Buffs always seem to feel disrespected. In other words, they feel disrespected by the fact the Buffs feel disrespected.

I know. Makes my head spin, too.