Colorado coach Deion Sanders and Colorado State coach Jay Norvell have found themselves the unlikely nerve centers of the college football universe this week, as Saturday night’s Rocky Mountain Showdown enjoys some unprecedented juice.
However, as ESPN reporter and former Denver Post writer Adam Schefter noted in a Saturday afternoon social media post, it’s not the first meeting between the two men.
On Halloween 1999, the Cowboys visited the Colts at the old RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Sanders was in his fifth season as a cornerback for Dallas; Norvell was Indianapolis’s wide receivers coach under Jim Mora.
