{"id":459839,"date":"2023-09-20T02:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=459839"},"modified":"2023-09-20T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:41:27","slug":"sanders-denounces-death-threats-vs-blackburn","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sanders-denounces-death-threats-vs-blackburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders denounces death threats vs. Blackburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado manager Deion Sanders condemned the latest death threats versus Henry Blackburn after the Colorado State defensive back&#8217;s illegal hit on Buffaloes player Travis Hunter during the weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Deion Sanders calls for forgiveness for Colorado State&#8217;s Henry Blackburn, who received death threats after his hit on Travis Hunter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Isr5oeW5bf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Isr5oeW5bf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1704200661678620905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Henry Blackburn is a great player who played a fantastic match,&#8221; the Colorado head coach claimed today. &#8220;Henry made an exceptional hit on Travis on the sideline. You could call it dirty, you could call it, &#8216;He was just playing football.&#8217; But no matter how you labeled it, it does not mean he should be getting death threats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That this is still a young man who is trying to achieve something &#8212; a guy wanting to live his dream and eventually graduate with honors or a degree, committed to excellence and be part of the National Football League. Blackburn does not deserve a death threat because of a match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s star Hunter will be out of the field for several weeks as he suffered a lacerated liver because of Blackburn\u2019s hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado manager Deion Sanders condemned the latest death threats versus Henry Blackburn after the Colorado State defensive back&#8217;s illegal hit on Buffaloes player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":459840,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19523],"news_category":[16705,14084],"gn_keywords":[19525,21456],"acf":{"announce":"Deion condemned the death threats against the CSU's player.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459843,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/459839\/revisions\/459843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459839"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=459839"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=459839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}