Colorado star quarterback Shedeur Sanders wanted to celebrate Senior Day with his parents on Friday.
He wanted this so much that he went to find his mother, Pilar, and convinced her to participate in the event, even though his father, head coach Deion Sanders, was there, according to the exchange between Shedeur and his brother Shilo in a video posted on Shilo Sanders' official YouTube channel.
“my brother [Shedeur] I just brought my mom from the stands for Senior Day and we didn't know we had to walk. They won't. “It's like World War III is trying to get them to walk together,” Shilo said.
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Shilo Sanders, head coach Deion Sanders and Shedeur Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes walk on the field during the Senior Day celebration before a game against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Folsom Field on Nov. 29, 2024, in Boulder , Colorado. (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)
Shedeur and Shilo walked with Deion across the field during the celebration and met their mother on the other side, according to the video. Deion patted his children on the back as they approached Pilar and then quickly walked away.
Pilar then hugged her children in the middle of the field as they celebrated and posed for photos.
Colorado won its last home game 52-0 against Oklahoma State.
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Deion and Pilar married in 1999. At the time, she was a model and he was an NFL star at the peak of his fame as a player. Together they had Shilo, Shedeur and their daughter Shelomi.
The couple filed for divorce in 2013. It was Sanders' second divorce. He separated from his first wife, Carolyn Chambers, in 1998, a year before marrying Pilar. Deion and Chambers had two children together: Deion Jr. and Deiondre.
In his divorce from Pilar in 2013, Sanders initially gained custody of the couple's three children, and Pilar was granted visitation rights. Still, there were custody battles later.
Before the divorce was finalized, Pilar alleged that a prenuptial agreement between her and Deion in 2012 was forged. She was seeking more money in alimony and child support payments from the Pro Football Hall of Famer.
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders walks to the sideline before a game against Texas Tech on Nov. 9, 2024, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)
“It's greed,” Deion said in court at the time. “You signed the contract. We had a prenup, and now you don't like the terms of it because you realize it's over, your lifestyle won't be the same. It's greed.”
The judge who oversaw the dispute said that Pilar Sanders signed the agreement, that she did so voluntarily, and that she cannot file a disability claim in court again.
“They're David and Goliath,” said Pilar's attorney, Larry Friedman, according to NBC Dallas-Forth Worth. “We're staying the course. We're the underdogs and it's hard to win when you follow the rules.”
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“Obviously I didn't marry him for money,” Pilar told NBC Dallas-Forth Worth. “I've been married to him for 14 years. My intention was to be married forever, but obviously it wasn't his.”
Deion also filed a defamation lawsuit against Pilar, alleging that she tarnished his reputation with allegations of domestic violence. Deion won that lawsuit, and an investigation found no evidence to support Pilar's claims.
Colorado Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) and head coach Deion Sanders after a two-point conversion in the fourth quarter against the Colorado State Rams at Folsom Field. (Ron Chenoy/USA Today Sports)
Pilar later gained custody of their two youngest children, Shedeur and Shelomi, in 2017. Still, Deion has been a large presence in Shedeur's life throughout his college career as his head coach at both Jackson State and in Colorado.
Deion has said that he dedicated himself to Christianity shortly after his first divorce. Sanders spoke about his devotion to Christ during an interview on “Running Wild” with Bear Grylls in November 2023.
“That's when I went through my first divorce where the only things I knew that really loved me were my two children. Now they're gone, now they've been taken away. It was devastating and I went through suicidal thoughts, a suicidal period” Sanders said.
“I pulled this car off the side of the road and at the bottom I thought this car was just going to roll over, but it didn't roll over. And it was still there. Shortly after that, I had to come to the Lord with my hands up and I say : 'I'm done. I can't take it anymore. You give up on me, God, you take me.'”
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