Non-profit scores touchdown with largest American football lesson
The University of Colorado’s homecoming game may not have resulted in a traditional win, but they still have something to celebrate after setting a world record with the help of their UCHealth sponsorship.
A total of 284 people took part in the largest American football lesson hosted by superstar Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders a former crossover National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) athlete in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
He is the only player to ever play in a Super Bowl and World Series, but more importantly, Deion holds a Guinness World Records title himself as the first person to hit an MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week.
This was a new record title with the minimum to beat being 250 participants.
UCHealth used the attempt to bring families together while challenging them to keep active, as part of their Ready.Set.CO challenge encouraging Coloradans to lead a healthy lifestyle.
The attempt took place at UCHealth Champions Center which was filled with participants aged between seven and 10 and their parents.
The participants were organized via numbered wristbands coded by shape and colour and then split into 50 steward groups.
There were 24 coaches present from Elite Speed, a performance coaching agency that helped instruct the kids.
As the record title suggests, families took part in various American football exercises including quarterback, running back or speed drills.
University of Colorado football alumni Darian Hagan and Lance Carl were also on hand to help with teaching the kids.
All under the watchful eye of Guinness World Records Adjudicator Andrew Glass and stewards, who made 10 total deductions, but this did not deter the attempt from being successful.
The event concluded with Deion addressing questions from parents and kids in the audience, while also offering some words of wisdom.
This did not exclude Deion from being quizzed by Andrew who had asked if he could remember when his personal record title was set (September 1989) which he could not. Don’t worry, Andrew was on hand to jog his memory.
The final count was then announced along with the news that the title had been broken which of course drew big cheers from the crowd.
The certificate was then handed to Deion and an UCHealth executive as confetti rained on all the kids, who were extremely excited with the outcome!
A huge group picture was taken to commemorate the record-breaking lesson.
The event was awesome. The part that I loved the most was the Q&A with the kids and the parents. When it came time to do the photo at the conclusion, just to see the excitement and the happiness; the pure joy on the faces of the kids was unbelievable… To be part of Guinness World Records, that’s phenomenal. – Deion Sanders, coach for the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team
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