“Ain't nobody had washing dry”: $45M worth Deion Sanders opens up about adversities faced in childhood

Deion Sanders has taken the world of college football by storm with his coaching role. The Colorado Buffaloes coach, who has a net worth of $45 million (according to celebritynetworth.com), has been able to transform the struggling program. Having had just a 4-8 record last year, they are now on the edge of making the Big 12 Championship game.

However, Sanders has not always had it easy. He took his sons, Shedeur and Shilo Sanders, on a trip back to his childhood home. In the clip, posted on Monday, which is doing the rounds on social media, he told his sons about some of the adversity that he had to face growing up.

"Ain’t nobody had washing dry."

Sanders was born in 1967 and grew up in Fort Myers, Florida. He was raised by his single mother, as her marriage broke down when Deion was young. Luckily, she did not have to raise Deion all by herself, as she was with a new partner.

He had a strong influence on Deion growing up and helped to make him the person he is today.

The area that he grew up in was not the most wealthy and featured many dangerous and disruptive influences such as drugs and gang violence.

Deion could have easily fallen into this trap, just as so many have done before. However, he was very focused on his sports activities, and this dedication was able to bring him to the top of two sports.

"I am only up here right now because I had a plan. I did not allow anyone out there to affect my plan ... I was exposed to so much that I had a choice, so I didn’t fall prey. I had seen another way. That influence changed my life," Deion Sanders said on his dedication to sports while growing up in a dangerous environment (From a 2018 article).

In this trip, Deion Sanders showed a world that his kids will never know, and it is likely to be an experience that will forever change them.

Deion Sanders once apologised to his hometown

However, Deion Sanders does not always have sad memories of Fort Myers. Before he became one of college football's most talked about coaches, Sanders had a business initiative to build affordable housing in Fort Myers.

This scheme, which would have helped many people in the town, failed, and the houses were never built.

In 2018, Sanders made a visit to the town to receive the key to the city. In his speech, he apologized for his previous actions towards the place he grew up in.

"This is long overdue," Sanders said. "This is like a reconciliation for me. The reason it hurt so bad was because I don't give a damn what they say about me in Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco, New York. I don't care because it was my job...

"When you talk about me, some things I let slide, but you are all family. You only get one shot at calling the place home ... I apologize to you as well."

Sanders' apology appeared to set things straight between him and his hometown, and since then, they have only embraced Coach Prime.