Shedeur Sanders threw for 310 yards and four touchdowns during Colorado’s 28-9 win over rival Colorado State and afterwards, he wasn’t too interested in exchanging pleasantries with the opposing quarterback.
A media day interview with CSU quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and star receiver Tory Horton recorded in August surfaced online a few days before the 2024 Rocky Mountain Showdown. The duo shared their thoughts on last season’s double-overtime thriller won by the Buffaloes.
“The hype, the media train, all of that, it only gets you so far,” Fowler-Nicolosi said. “At the end of the day, you have to line up 11 guys against our 11 guys, and we’ll find out who wants it more. We’ll see how far Instagram followers gets them.”
“We should have murdered them guys …we’re coming for revenge”
“We’ll see how far instagram followers gets them”
Here’s what CSU’s Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and Tory Horton had to say about last year’s Rocky Mountain Showdown and the upcoming game against CU: pic.twitter.com/51ZBPyigpf
— Romi Bean (@Romi_Bean) September 12, 2024
Inevitably, word got back to the Colorado football team before the two teams took the field in front of a sold-out Canvas Stadium on Saturday night.
When it was all said and done, Sanders made sure to remind Fowler-Nicolosi of his choice words and declined to shake hands with the CSU quarterback.
“We handled our business and I said what I had to say to him because he wasn’t telling the truth in nothing that he was saying,” Sanders said on his 2Legendary podcast. “It felt like a lot of hate to me, personally. In life, if you’re a hater, you’ll never be able to succeed. Those who hate on people, I don’t feel like God blesses those type of people because it’s bad. You should never look at what someone else has or what somebody else is doing and be on some hating stuff towards them because everybody’s path is different, everybody has a different route. Jealousy and envy is the root of all evil.
“He went online and publicly was just talking crazy. I never understood that. Of course, the media tries to portray it like I did something wrong but that’s just how it is. We understood what’s going on so we don’t even get affected by it anymore.”
Sanders and the Buffs are back in action on Saturday, Sept. 21 for homecoming vs. Baylor.
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This article originally appeared on Fort Collins Coloradoan: Shedeur Sanders on beef with CSU QB: ‘I said what I had to say’
