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Deion Sanders calls alleged $50,000 critic offer 'a joke'

Colorado is two and five after a fifty-seven to twenty-four loss at Oklahoma State, and its next game is at home against Kansas State on Halloween.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorColorado coach Deion Sanders says an alleged fifty-thousand-dollar offer to silence critics was a joke.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorColorado is two and five after five straight losses, and ESPN has him saying, quote, I would never offer a man money.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo he never said it? That's a clean, fully transparent denial, and the only thing missing is the part where it's true.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWell, a resurfaced May video shows him telling critics, you get twenty-five, fifty, I give you that. Then he adds, let's see how that works.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the joke had a pilot.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDoes this affect me, a person who doesn't have fifty thousand dollars to be quiet about anything?

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOnly if you're a Buffs fan.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNext up is Kansas State at home on October thirty-first, and his contract reportedly carries a twenty-five-and-a-half-million-dollar buyout after the season, according to Complex.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFifty thousand to quiet critics, twenty-five million to quiet the coach. Somebody in that building has a very specific price list.

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