Thirty-five years ago, new Atlanta Falcon Deion Sanders arrived in Suwanee, Ga., with a carefully crafted reputation.
During his college career at Florida State, he had driven to a game in a white stretch limo and stepped out wearing a tuxedo. Sanders was known for strutting into end zones in a way hardly anyone else dared do at the time. He told media members that Florida receivers “must think I’m God.”
“He was known for his flashy suits and alligator shoes, gold chains and his signature diamond-studded dollar sign, maybe a silk pork pie hat,” Falcons teammate Tim Green wrote in an email.