Colorado State safety Henry Blackburn received numerous threats following a late hit that sent Colorado's Travis Hunter to the hospital.
University of Colorado Boulder head football coach Deion Sanders defended Colorado State safety Henry Blackburn Tuesday after he received death threats for a late hit in a game that sent Colorado star Travis Hunter to the hospital.
"That's absurd for people to be threatened," Sanders said at a weekly press conference."I don't mind getting death threats. I get them every week. But a kid, it's not good. ... 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. Everybody continues their life the next day."
The threats toward Blackburn and his family began before Colorado's dramatic double-overtime victory. Sanders has since praised Blackburn as a"good player" who was simply trying to make a big play. "It's football. Something bad is going to happen on the field sooner or later," Hunter said on his online streaming show."You've got to get up and fight again."
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