Coach Prime & Michael Irvin crying together after talking about their friendship is amazing

“He’s always been that way with everybody, he helps everybody and I love him,” Irvin said. Sanders then showed his appreciation for Irvin, revealing that the three-time Super Bowl champion and fellow Hall of Famer used to come to his house to help him prepare for a career in television.

“Darn it, I’m getting emotional,” Sanders said. “This man did that for me. He didn’t have to do that, and he wanted me to be the best and prepared me for this next level of my life. That’s friendship, man, no matter what goes on, that’s friendship. And that’s one of the reasons, whenever he calls, I’m picking it up on the first ring ’cause I love him, man.”

Longtime friends and former Dallas Cowboys teammates, Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin, shared an emotional moment on UNDISPUTED ahead of Saturday’s college football clash between the Colorado Buffaloes and the USC Trojans. Irvin, 57, recalled Sanders’ help with getting him into television during a difficult period in his life following his retirement from the NFL in 2000. Such a bond, which they will not shy away from calling a friendship that extends into brotherhood, was on full display Friday morning in Boulder on the set of “Undisputed.” The shared experiences and memories from decades together came flooding back for both Prime and Playmaker, delivering a remarkable moment of reflection on the path to this point on the eve of Sanders facing his greatest challenge as head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes with No. 8 USC in town for a Big Noon Saturday matchup (coverage begins at 10 a.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app).

“They cried real, legit tears. Not for the cameras, not for anybody. For themselves,” host Skip Bayless recounted to FOX Sports after the show. “It allowed them a moment because I just happened to open the right door. I don’t know if off camera someplace where they would be socializing or whatever that they would do exactly that because you’d never really have a cause to do that. And all of a sudden, they had a reason to share their deepest feelings for each other.