BOULDER, Colo. — Patients at an Aurora hospital had a special visit Monday from Coach Prime.
University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders visited children with cancer and sickle cell disease at Children’s Hospital Colorado on Monday.
Aflac executive Garth Knutson joined Sanders in the visit.
Sanders handed out interactive Aflac stuffed animal ducks to help them get through their treatments.
"I'm happy and elated to be here to inspire you, to give you the hope and the presence you need to go on to the next day," Sanders said. "Because you're going to win this battle, you're going to win this fight, because you got it in you, you've got a wonderful team around you, because that's that we need, a wonderful team around us to help us do the things we deserve to do."
The 2024 football season is Colorado's second under head coach Deion "Coach Prime" Sanders and the first in the program's return to the Big 12 Conference.
The CU Buffs have sold out of season tickets for the 2024 football season. CU Athletics said football season tickets sold out for the second-straight season and the 10th time in CU history.
This is the second time CU has sold out of season tickets before August of an upcoming season. The first time was last year.
CU Athletics said that prior to last season, it had been 27 years since last selling out of season tickets, doing so in a seven-year run from 1990-96. The only other time CU sold out of season tickets was the 1972 season.
For the second-straight year, the season ticket renewal rate finished above 98%, the best two marks in school history.
Colorado 2024 football schedule
- Thursday, Aug. 29, at 6:30 p.m. - vs. North Dakota State - ESPN
- Saturday, Sept. 7, at 5:30 p.m. - at Nebraska - NBC
- Saturday, Sept. 14, at 5:30 p.m. - at Colorado State - CBS
- Saturday, Sept. 21 - vs. Baylor
- Saturday, Sept. 28 - at UCF
- Saturday, Oct. 12 - vs. Kansas State
- Saturday, Oct. 19 - at Arizona
- Saturday, Oct. 26 - vs. Cincinnati
- Saturday, Nov. 9 - at Texas Tech
- Saturday, Nov. 16 - vs. Utah
- Saturday, Nov. 23 - at Kansas
- Friday, Nov. 29, at 10 a.m. - vs. Oklahoma State - ABC
With games scheduled to air on NBC, ABC, CBS and ESPN, the Colorado's first four announced start times are all on national TV.
CU Athletics said this is the second time CU will appear on three of the four major networks in the United States in the same season, the other coming in 1990.
With FOX being a partner of the Big 12, Colorado has a chance to appear on all four networks in the same season for the first time in school history, CU Athletics said.
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