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Football. 'There's something different Auburn' - 1989 Sugar Bowl

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NEW ORLEANS - One minute, Quentin Riggins was talking to Deion Sanders. The next minute, he found himself in the presence of “Prime Time.”

“I’ll never forget meeting Deion Sanders and some of the guys on Bourbon Street,” said Riggins, a junior linebacker on Auburn’s 1989 Sugar Bowl team. “He was as normal of a guy as you could imagine, until the fans or the cameras came around, and then he was “Neon.

“He put on a show, and then when they went away, he said, ‘I’m sorry, I had to do that.