When the curtain went up on Saturday, light snowflakes were coming down on the University of Colorado football team’s spring game.
Rather than put a damper on the event, they only amplified the sense of theater around the intrasquad scrimmage of a heretofore irrelevant Buffaloes program: an announced crowd of 47,277 in Boulder, a national television audience and a head coach doubling as master of ceremonies in Deion Sanders, who was adorned in a white cowboy hat, a gold whistle around his neck and a puffy vest stitched with his sobriquet, “Prime.”
The good vibes from the afternoon lasted as long as the fallen snow.