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Shilo Sanders Plays Dad Deion Sanders In ‘BMF’ Season Finale On Starz
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Shilo Sanders, son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, appears in the Friday season finale of crime drama BMF portraying his father.
Shilo, who plays football for the University of Colorado Boulder Buffaloes, where his father serves as head coach appears in a single scene portraying the elder Sanders in the finale of the third season of the Starz series.
BMF, which stands for Black Mafia Family, the most notorious drug network in U.S. history, follows the Detroit brothers who founded it: Demetrius Big Meech Flenory and Terry Southwest T Flenory.
The show incorporated Deion Sanders’ real-life acquaintance with Big Meech in Atlanta while he was playing for the Falcons. Big Meech was known to visit Sanders’ Atlanta club, Prime Time 21.
On Wednesday, Deion Sanders, 56, boasted of Shilo’s acting gig on Instagram.
Season 3 Episode 10 guess who’s playing a Young PRIME! I’m so proud of @shilosanders he did the Doggone THANG! Good Lawd the SANDERS boys are exercising all the gifts that GOD gave them and having fun living this life that we only get 1 shot at. Live kids Live, he wrote alongside what appears to be a behind-the-scenes still from the episode’s taping.
Shilo, a 24-year-old safety, and his brother Shedeur, a 24-year-old quarterback, both play for Colorado, where their father is known as Coach Prime.
TMX contributed to this article.
