Deion Sanders spent the 1990s as a prominent two-sport athlete, which included playing for both the NFL’s Falcons and MLB’s Braves in 1992 and ’93. Apparently, he tried to arrange a similar situation later in his career, but one NFL team wasn’t interested.
On Tuesday’s episode of the Pat McAfee Show, the current Colorado football coach revealed he wanted to play for the Bengals late in his NFL career, even though the team was bad at the time, just because he enjoyed living in Cincinnati while playing baseball with the Reds.
“I wanted to build a home there and live there forever. We even asked the Bengals at the time, [who] were horrible, ‘Let me just play here; let me do the two-sport thing here,” Sanders said. “They didn’t even call us back.”
