Colorado football coach Deion Sanders loves bass fishing and recently spent time driving all-terrain vehicles on his ranch in Texas. during his team’s bye week last week.
But there are some things he hasn’t done and never will do in his free time, as he revealed Thursday at the weekly Colorado Football Coaches Show in Boulder.
He called them the “three things black people don’t do.”
“We don’t deep sea dive. We don’t bungee jump. We don’t eat noodles, okay? We don’t do that,” said Sanders, whose Buffalos (4-3) face No. 24 UCLA Bruins (5-2) Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
What are noodles?
Noodles are the act of catching catfish with hand by going into the water and reaching for the catfish’s holes hoping they will bite. This can lead to bruising and biting of the arm.
The topic came up when the show’s host, Mark Johnson, asked Sanders about his time off and whether he fished for catfish.
“I hate catfish,” Sanders said. He said catfish “take all your bait food.” They eat everything. They annoy you.
Johnson then asked Sanders if he had ever tried the noodles.
“Oh my God,” Sanders said.
He said that one of his friends from Atlanta Falcons would show him his bruised arm.
“I said, ‘What is that?’” Sander said. “And he told me what it was. And I said, “That’s not possible. »
He also said he “saw someone do it” in his ranch’s lake.
“First of all, I’m not jumping into the water to do this,” he said. “I’m not a swimmer either. It’s incredible.
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“There’s nothing there I want to see.”
Sanders explained his quirks with a sense of humor, in less than two weeks after being parodied on “Saturday Night Live.”
Fly fishing is another no-no for him.
“I fly while I fish; I don’t fly fish,” he said.
He said fly fishing was “too much work” on the arm. “I might as well play tennis if I’m going to do all that.”
As for scuba diving, it ranks on the same level as noodle catfish.
“We’re not going there,” he said. “There’s nothing there I want to see.”
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