Peter King Reveals Deion Sanders' Fake Name Used at Road Hotels in NFL, MLB Careers

Professional athletes and celebrities often use fake names in hotels to keep people from finding where they are staying while on the road. NFL Hall of Famer and current Colorado head coach Deion Sanders was no exception.

According to Peter King of Pro Football Talk, Coach Prime used the fake name of a famous comedian and actor during his NFL and MLB career:

"I remember going to a lobby phone in the downtown Pittsburgh Hilton late on a Sunday afternoon in August 1992. 'Could you ring the room of Redd Foxx please,' I said. Deion Sanders' pseudonym in road hotels. He'd given it to me because he knew in the media world there was SI and everyone else was angling for second place, and he wanted a pipeline to the magazine."

An inspired choice.

By this point in his career, it's likely difficult for the Colorado head coach to get away with using a pseudonym. In the internet age, everybody's seen your picture, and few people in sports were more visible than Sanders this year.