Has Colorado coach Deion Sanders ever been to Pullman, Washington? Let him explain
Colorado coach Deion Sanders was in a joking mood Wednesday as he spoke about visiting Washington State for a game Friday night
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Colorado football coach Deion Sanders apparently never visited Pullman, Washington before his team was scheduled to make the trip there for a game Friday night against Washington State.
But he seems to have a certain impression of it – as a remote, northern place where few Black folks have ventured.
He joked about it Wednesday on his weekly Colorado Football Coaches Show with host Mark Johnson.
“Have you been to Pullman before?” Johnson asked him.
“Yeah,” Sanders said in jest.
Sanders then changed his voice to make fun of the question as practically outrageous.
“You ask a Black man, `Have you been to Pullman?’ `Oh yeah. Yeah. Was just there last week,’” Sanders said, drawing laughter from Johnson.
Sanders then delivered his punchline.
“You know dern well ain’t no Black folks been to no Pullman.”
Pullman is in a remote, agricultural area of eastern Washington and has a population of about 32,500, including about 75% white and 2.9% Black, according to U.S. Census data from last year.
