Shannon Sharpe teases Deion Sanders about amputated toes: ‘No more flip-flops’

Deion Sanders may be rethinking his latest podcast appearance.

Colorado’s new head football coach went on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast this week, and right off the bat, Sharpe chided Coach Prime about his surgically repaired left foot, which had two toes amputated last year.

“Man, where’s the big toe?” Shannon asked Sanders as he got a foot massage. “I thought you was magic or something. I thought you was just hiding it.”

Nearly in tears, Sharpe refused to let up on the NFL legend.

“No more sandals for you, no more flip-flops for you, huh?” Sharpe asked, with a smile on his face. “You know what, maybe they do a special flip-flop.”

It was all fun and games though. The pair later discussed Sanders‘ tenure at Jackson State, the Tigers’ recent FCS championship game and other topics.

Sanders’s big toe and second toe were removed from his left foot in 2021 due to blood clots that stemmed from a previous surgery.

“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,” Sanders said in an episode of his “Coach Prime” web series. “You just wanna get out of this hospital.”

Sanders 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 in September 2021.