An ongoing spat between ESPN analyst Paul Finebaum and Colorado football coach Deion Sanders took a more neutral turn on Wednesday morning on ESPN’s First Take, one day after Sanders called Finebaum ‘a dying breed.’
Sanders made those comments on a podcast with Robert Griffin III , days after Finebaum made comments critical of Sanders for freezing out a reporter from the Denver Post.
Finebaum explained that Sanders wasn’t referring to his recent comments when speaking with Griffin, but rather comments he made several weeks back about Colorado being an irrelevant program before Sanders’ arrival.
“It didn’t mean very much to me because it was a fairly irrelevant reaction,” Finebaum said. “He did say something that I agreed with. He called me a dying breed in the profession, which I’m proud of, because I really do believe that the media should be treated with respect and not have selective persecution like he’s using out there, not only with this reporter from Denver but other reporters as well.”