Colorado coach Deion Sanders chastised those who sent Colorado State safety Henry Blackburn death threats over the weekend.
Sanders went out of his way to comment on the threats to Blackburn and wasn’t asked about them specifically.“Henry Blackburn is a good player who played a phenomenal game. He made a tremendous hit on Travis on the sideline. You could call it dirty. You could call it, 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.
Blackburn was penalized on the play but was not ejected and has not been punished further by the Mountain West or Colorado State for the hit. “I reviewed the play. It’s a play that happens sometimes. When you throw a deep ball and have a guy playing middle safety, he’s got to react on the boundary and he’s going full speed. It was a bang-bang type of a play,” Norvell said Monday. “The officials looked at it and we looked at it. It’s certainly not something that we teach or coach. It happens in football sometimes. Seems to have been a lot of attention about that play, but it’s a play that happens.
“That’s absurd, for people to be threatening him. I don’t mind getting death threats. I get ’em every week. But a kid, that’s not good,” Sanders said.Colorado travels to Oregon on Saturday but has sold out each home game this season for the first time in school history. The Buffaloes host
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