Deion Sanders wasn’t the first person to play Major League Baseball and in the National Football League at the same time, nor was he even the most famous person to do so in his own era.
But 25 years ago this month, Sanders accomplished something no one had done before and no one has done since. Three years after suiting up with the Atlanta Braves in the 1992 World Series, “Primetime” took the field with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX on Jan. 29, 1995.
Thus, Sanders became the first man to play in both a World Series and a Super Bowl.