SI tracks Deion Sanders-Dallas Cowboys rumor to its source

Sports Illustrated's Kyle Koster tracked the Deion Sanders-to-the-Dallas Cowboys rumor to its source and found that it was essentially manifested online before it ever reached Jerry Jones' desk -- but it did reach Jones' desk.

"There's a chicken-and-egg nature to all of this that's so interesting because it only takes a tiny sliver of momentum to Astroturf something into existence. Meaning that Jones could conceivably look around, see all these people who would be excited by Sanders coaching the Cowboys and then seriously consider the idea," Koster wrote.

"To his credit, Sanders has been focused on the task and hand and isn't breathing an ounce of life into this narrative. Yet at a point very soon it won't even matter what he has to say because once a juicy topic like this makes the round on television, it's so hard to put back into the tube. A year after Sanders was accused, perhaps rightly, of creating a circus at the expense of winning, one is being constructed all around him. Deion Sanders, Cowboys coach will more than likely never be a thing. But it already is a different type of thing in the media."

Deion Sanders has denied wanting to go to the NFL

Again, for those in the back: Coach Prime has no interest in the Cowboys or any NFL coaching opportunity and has made that crystal clear.

“I don't have any desire or ambition to coach in the NFL,” Sanders told SI in June. “I have a problem with men getting their checks and not doing their jobs. I would be too tough as a coach in the NFL because I still have those old-school attributes.”

People are too hung up on nostalgia. Instead of thinking about Sanders helping the Cowboys win the Super Bowl, folks need to embrace what's going on at Folsom Field right now.

Because it's the glory days in Boulder; with Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter now, and with, more than likely, Julian Lewis in the future.