The University of Colorado athletic department issued a statement calling a Barstool Sports report "completely false" that head football coach Deion Sanders told the Colorado marching band that it can't play the school's fight song after his son, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, throws a touchdown pass.
As reported by Denver NBC affiliate KUSA, the Barstool report said the stadium will instead play one of Shedeur's rap songs.
Traditionally, one of the university's fight songs, "Glory, Glory, Colorado," plays immediately after touchdowns, followed by another, "Fight CU," after the team's extra point attempt, according to KUSA's Alexander Kirk.
"The report that Coach Prime instructed the CU band to refrain from playing the fight song is completely false," the CU Athletic Department said, as reported by KUSA. "The fight songs 'Glory, Glory, Colorado' and 'Fight CU' have been played after CU touchdowns and field goals for years and were played every time the Buffaloes scored against North Dakota State earlier this season. It’s common throughout college football for individual players to have small snippets of songs played during games.
As seen in video highlights from Colorado's home opener against North Dakota State, a snippet of Shedeur Sanders' song "Perfect Timing" played after his touchdown passes, followed by the band's "Glory, Glory, Colorado" and "Fight CU."
"Whoever reported that I told the band not to play the fight song, that's idiotic, ya'll know that," Sanders said during a Tuesday news conference. "When you saw that, you knew that was a lie. We've got to start having some kind of a accountability to this. I understand this is a free and open world, that not everybody is a journalist, everybody's not an analyst."
"I'm thankful for many of ya'll that take your job and your craft serious," Sanders told reporters, according to KUSA's Kirk. "And consequently you get facts before you run with false narratives. Please know that that stuff affects people. Me. You've been attacking me my whole life, so I'm good.
"But other people that's involved, band members, Buff faithful and alumni. Sometimes they don't know what to believe. Oftentimes in life, we believe the first thing we hear, in which we shouldn't. I would just challenge you to be more responsible with your reporting."
