Shannon Sharpe is something else!
The former NFL star chopped it up with Colorado’s new head football coach Deion Sanders and busted out with a few jokes about his amputated toes!
While filming for Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast this week, the Hall of Famer questioned Sanders about his surgically repaired left foot, which had two toes amputated last year. “Man, where’s the big toe?” Shannon asked Sanders while he was getting a foot massage. “I thought you was magic or something. I thought you was just hiding it.”
He continued joking, “No more sandals for you, no more flip-flops for you, huh?” Sharpe said, with a smile on his face. “You know what, maybe they do a special flip-flop.” As Sharpe gifted Sanders with new Beats, their conversation got a little more serious as they discussed how Sanders has been holding up since his big procedure.
As we previously reported, in 2021, Sanders had to hey his big toe and second toe removed from his left foot due to blood clots that stemmed from a previous surgery. At the time, he was suffering from a dislocated toe and inflamed nerve and ended up spending about a month in the hospital, with the initial procedure taking place last September.
As a result of his toes getting dark under the bandages, he then underwent multiple procedures but unfortunately developed a femoral arterial blood clot and his leg began to swell, according to the AP. In an episode of his “Coach Prime,” Sanders explained,
“The hardest thing of it all was to look down there and see that and understand once upon a time you was this type of athlete and you don’t even know if you’re gonna walk because all you feel is pain,. You just wanna get out of this hospital.”
Since then, sports fans have been sending him love and support, even more, that he’s begun his new coaching job.
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