By Scott Salomon
You are going to have to excuse Shedeur Sanders and Shilo Sanders for missing the Colorado Buffaloes’ first team meeting of the new year. You see, they had a modeling gig for Louis Vuitton in Paris.
What’s next? Shedeur misses practice or a game for a GQ modeling gig? Where do you draw the line? This is an instance where NIL has gone too far. When NIL shticks interfere with team meetings or other team-related activities, a line must be drawn in the sand.
And you wonder why the Buffs played so poorly on the field last season. It looks like the same “Me First” mentality will riddle the locker room as it did last season. Deion Sanders would sanction any other player for missing a team meeting, especially the first one, but his boys had a valid, selfish reason not to be there.
The Brothers Sanders linked up with Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Pharrell Williams in Paris and modeled the Louis Vuitton men’s line at the 2024 Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter show.
If they get ripped when they get back to campus and model their Nike athletic wear for their teammates in off-season workouts, they would deserve it.
Deion is giving preferential treatment to his sons and allowing them to miss an important team meeting in exchange for a few bucks and some publicity for them and their dad. Shedeur was quoted as saying that this gig was a “bucket list” item for him.
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Hence, the term “Daddy Ball” comes to mind once again.
The quarterback and the safety wore camouflaged clothing as they walked down the runway, doing their best Cindy Crawford imitation. They looked like they were getting ready for a Duck Dynasty taping.
Deion Sanders, Jr. chronicled the entire event on YouTube and Instagram.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwywX0kTPYU
You can see early on in the video that Shilo asked Shedeur about his hair and whether he was going to get it touched up. Shedeur responded that he was going to wear a hat, so that it was not necessary.
Do you think Shilo asks the same thing before he puts a helmet on before games?
https://www.instagram.com/p/reel:C2LLpEiJrOl
“How can we get our hands on some merch?” Shilo Sanders asked Williams.
“We got you. … And I got to send your dad [Deion] some stuff because I know he be [representing] crazy,” Williams said.
If you didn’t think that seeing Shedeur showing his watch off after games, can you imagine what it will be like when their lockers are filled with LV merchandise?
When Coach Prime arrived in Boulder at his first press conference, he said that he was bringing his own luggage (read: players) and that it was Louis Vuitton. Who would have thought at the time that the luggage would be rerouted to Paris?
The luggage must have been the knockoffs that you can buy on Canal Street in NYC due to the fact that they were only good for four weeks en route to a 4-8 Colorado football season.
Williams told the Duo that they were multi-dimensional and that they should just go with it and get as used to the runway as they do the gridiron.
“You already are (multi-dimensional). It’s just that society makes you think that you’re not when you aspire to be other things,” Williams said. “But you guys do so many things already. So, “you don’t want to be..” If I were you, I would change that language to “I am multi-dimensional.” You know what I’m saying. Let them know you’re already that.”
Shedeur and Shilo will be flying out Wednesday evening, and the plan to be ready to work out with their teammates on Thursday.
