After Colorado State's Henry Blackburn received death threats following his hit on Colorado's Travis Hunter, Deion Sanders came to Blackburn's defense.
"Henry Blackburn is a good player who played a phenomenal game," Sanders said."He made a tremendous hit on Travis on the sideline — you could call it dirty, you could call it [that] he was just playing the game of football. But whatever it was, it does not constitute that he should be receiving death threats.
"This is still a young man trying to make it in life, a guy that's trying to live his dream and hopefully graduate with honors or a degree, commit to excellence and go to the NFL. He does not deserve a death threat over a game. At the end of the day, this is a game. Someone must win, someone must lose, everyone continues their life the next day. Very unfortunate, I'm saddened if there's any of our fans on the other side of those threats. I would hope and pray not.
Hunter said on a livestream Monday that he holds zero animosity toward Blackburn despite the fact that the missed time could impact his chances at becoming a Heisman finalist and Colorado's ability to stay undefeated after a 3-0 start. "He did what he was supposed to do," Hunter said."It's football. Something bad's going to happen on the field sooner or later. You've just got to get up and fight again. That's what I try to do, just get up and fight. Good thing the doctors stopped me.""I forgive [Blackburn]. Our team's forgiven him. Travis has forgiven him. Let's move on," Sanders said.
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