Deion Sanders Thanks God for New Opportunity: ‘It’s a Blessing’
By Movieguide® Contributor
In a new interview with The Wrap, Colorado Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders revealed his goal for his new Tubi talk show, WE GOT TIME TODAY.
“It puts me in front of another whole audience to not only inform and enlighten and encourage and motivate, but to recruit, really go out to recruit,” Sanders told TheWrap. “I really can’t, because coaches hate…If I go visit this guy down the street and they go to the school around the corner, now they hating on me. But now I have this platform, so I can get your mama, your grandma, your grandfather, you know, Rocsi [Diaz’s] people. I can get everybody.”
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“But I’m just sitting up there talking, just being authentic,” he added. “So it’s another mechanism that you’ve given me to be able to reach people, and that’s what the goal is.”
Sanders co-hosts the program with radio personality host Rosci Diaz to discuss current pop culture topics and sports. It launched on Tubi on Nov. 19.
“Produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, the series will roll out 20 one-hour episodes weekly, showcasing the unique synergy between its charismatic hosts,” Essence wrote.
“Thank You God,” Sander said of the show on Instagram.
“We speak to the culture. I mean, just the name of the show alone, WE GOT TIME TODAY,” Diaz said. “Deion and I are bringing together demographics and audiences that grew up with us, that know us and that speak the same language as us as well…So this is something for us now that we get to address issues and topics that that are in everyday households.”
Sanders revealed that it’s a blessing to be part of something he always wanted to do.
“…this is something that I would have done had I not put my kids first at a certain time in my life,” the coach explained. “I was [previously] interviewed and accepted a position, and I was going to have to move to New York and then relocate to do it, and I really didn’t want to do that. In some form of fashion, God stripped it away at the last minute and I didn’t have to do it, which ended up being a blessing, because [I was a] full-time father at the time and wanted to raise my kids properly. But this is something I always wanted to do now, to have a second shot at it, and to have a host like Rocsi doing her thing … It’s a blessing.”
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