"The Smell of Weed in The 2nd Quarter" - Deion Sanders Surprised to Learn Every Student in Boulder, Colorado Smokes Weed in The Stands at Football Games

Makes perfect sense. From the location of their school in Boulder, Colorado, to the time of the stadium-wide session in the 2nd quarter. I'd imagine that I would have started smoking weed at the exact same time as a University of Colorado college student. Put yourself in the shoes of a college student who's been drinking and partying all day long leading up to the game. Sure, you can purchase, or sneak-in drinks to the game too. But in general (at least in my experience) it's tough to keep that pre-game buzz going all game long. You're just standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a crowd packed full of people. By the time the 2nd quarter rolls around, and you realize you still have hours to go, that would be the exact time I'd think, "Let's change up the brain chemistry a bit with some recreationally legal marijuana."

At least that's what I'd have done. But it's also quite possible Deion Sanders is simply mistaking the smell of weed "from the stands", with the fact that he has every rapper in America standing 15-feet behind him on the sidelines at all times.

WARNING: The rest of this blog turns into one big Colorado suck fest. I apologize for that. It wasn't my original intention. But I firmly stand by my overall point.

From the perspective of a regular college kid who enjoys Power 4 conference football and a good party, there can't be many better schools to have been at the last couple years than Colorado. I suppose if you're someone who really just can't fucking stomach Deion Sanders, or you're a real stickler about having an S-tier, best-of-the-best college football program to root for, then maybe Colorado isn't for you. But if you allow yourself to buy into the hype... ever since Deion Sanders and his circus rolled into town, the University of Colorado has basically been the Disney World of higher-education. 

Yes, their football team did end up sucking in Deion's first season. But when they started the year by beating TCU and Nebraska, and things of this nature were happening...

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That one week leading up to "The Rocky Mountain Showdown" (I just now learned that's what they Colorado vs Colorado State) was packed with more fun and excitement than a recent University of Nebraska grad had in their entire college career. And that week was capped off with an OT win. By way of a Travis Hunter forced fumble on the goal line.

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But the year after, Colorado was never a real threat to win the National Championship or anything, but they did have a real shot at the playoffs in the final weeks of the season. If you let yourself be a delusional college sports fan about it (which you obviously would if you're attending school there) then you had legitimate playoff hopes all season long. You had a Heisman winning wide receiver/cornerback to cheer for. You got to see this happen…

On top of all that, no matter how fun and exciting things were in reality, you had ESPN blowing everything even further out of proportion. The media is telling you all year long that your school is the most important, most electric football team to ever grace a field. Regardless of how much of the hype was "worthy", and how much was "completely fucking manufactured", that doesn't matter for dumb 18-23 year old college students. From their perspective, the last two years must have been fun as hell.

And it's all happening in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, in a stadium where you can openly smoke weed from the comfort of your seat. I can certainly think of worse places to spend my college years. 

Doug Pensinger. Getty Images.

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Honestly, this might be the year we get a player sparking a blunt on the sidelines. Not that they won't get in trouble for it, but somebody is going to do that eventually. Any school in Colorado (or California) is as good of candidate as any. I dare Deion to invite Snoop Dogg to either the Delaware or Wyoming game. If one of those games is a 4+ TD blowout in the 4th quarter, and Snoop Dogg is standing there with his standard ounce of weed in his pocket, somebody is going to take their opportunity to smoke weed with Snoop.