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Colorado University Football Head Coach Deion Sanders Returned to the sideline for the start of the 2025 season less than four months after undergoing bladder cancer surgery.
Sanders, 58, joined his team at Folsom Field at Boulder, Colorado, on Friday, August 29, as his Buffaloes Colorado prepared to take on Georgia Tech in the season’s opener for both teams. Back social media photos From the game, Sanders ran on the field while hopping his team. The instructor wore a black jacket and an ensemble pants with white -headed socks. He also rocked a cowboy hat.
On the field, Sanders had a portable toilet next to Colorado bench as part of its bladder cancer recovery, per and Tweeted by ESPN correspondent Adam Rittenberg. The brand name relied on the covered cover, appearing as a sponsor of the temporary bathroom stand.
After weeks of speculation about his health, Sanders hosted a press conference on July 28 at the University of Colorado announced that it had been bladder removed in May After a cancerous tumor was discovered.
The Famer Hall of the NFL, who has been Colorado’s head coach since December 2022, announced that he is now cancer -free.
“This wasn’t easy,” said Sanders. “Men, everyone, are checked. Because if it were not for me to be tested for something else, they wouldn’t have stumbled up on this.”
At the time, Sanders said he had lost “about 25 pounds” and called the surgery and recovery process a “tremendous journey.”
“Dealing with the catheter, dealing with all the things I had to deal with,” Sanders described. “At the moment I’m still dealing with going to the bathroom. It’s changing a whole life. I’m going to be transparent, I can’t look like I’m used to looking.”
Given his new lifestyle, Sanders said Colorado’s football fans could see him using portable toilets on the sideline throughout the season.
“I rely on relying,” joking Sanders.
After proactively about his own health, Sanders encouraged other people to be checked for cancer.
“There are a lot of people out there going through what I go through and deal with what I deal with,” said Sanders. “Let’s stop being ashamed of it and let’s deal with it and let’s deal with it directly.”
He added, “be checked out. Because it could have been ‘assembled in the whole if I wasn’t.”
Football season 2025 first marks Sanders as head coach without his sons Sheder and Shill on the list of duties. All the trio came to Colorado in 2022 after three seasons at the University of Jackson.
Shedeur, 23, was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the fifth of the NFL 2025 draft round and is currently the team’s third string quarter.
Shilo, 25, signed an untreated free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in April, but was cut from the team earlier this month after entering a rebellion during the PressaSon game.