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The 49th season premiere of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” featured a sketch of “Deion Sanders” — played by show stalwart Keenan Thompson — chatting it up with Weekend Update host Colin Jost.
“Colin, look at me, man,” the faux Coach Prime said. “What about me makes you think that I care about what you think about me? You don’t understand that my team has it all, man. Coaching? Genius. Offense? Explosive. Defense? Trying. It’s a complete package, man.”
The live audience laughed throughout the skit, however Sanders’ daughter, Shelomi Sanders, thought the parody wasn’t all that accurate.
“It was good,” Sanders told the Denver Post. “But then it’s like, okay, they’re kind of getting him wrong.”
She thought that the segment missed the mark on truly portraying her fathers intentions and personality.
“The way that they were saying stuff is kind of like, all he cares about is ‘the show,’ and stuff like that. That’s not him, though,” Sanders said.
Despite her lack of agreement, Shelomi, the youngest sibling of Deion’s five kids, said Thompson’s portrayal of Coach Prime wasn’t all bad.
“I think he would laugh,” she said. “I think he would think that was funny.”
Shelomi is more than just Deion’s daughter.
She was a part of the Jackson State women’s basketball team, but then transferred to Colorado the same year as her father and brother, Shedeur and Shilo, who play on the Buffaloes football team.
Now a redshirt freshman on the Colorado women’s basketball team, she has made a name for herself with her outstanding work ethic and bossy nature.
The Lady Buffs look to make bigger waves than they did last year, ending last year’s season with 25 wins.
Their hopes of a historic season starts with a season opener vs. No. 1 LSU in Las Vegas on Nov. 6.
Deion, Sheuder and Shilo have led the Buffaloes to a 4-3 record so far in the season. though the team has cooled off after a 3-0 start.
Sheuder drew criticism after last week’s “disgraceful” overtime loss to Stanford, in which Colorado held a 29-0 lead at the half — when the QB’s Instagram account shared a merchandise link.
The Buffaloes are off this weekend before taking on No. 25 UCLA in primetime on Oct. 28.
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