Dancing Appears to Be More to Sanders’ Liking, Anyway

Deion Sanders’ debut rap album “Prime Time” was a waste of time, according to Barry Walters, the San Francisco Examiner’s music critic.

“His rapping voice is thin and anonymous,” Walters wrote. “His rhymes don’t click. He has nothing to say. He can’t sing, and when his raps verge on melody, he makes a lousy thing worse.”

Yeah, but he does a nice soft shoe in the end zone.

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Trivia time: What is the largest crowd to watch the Rams in a regular-season game?

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Post-mortem: Pepper Johnson, Cleveland linebacker, on the Browns’ 29-9 NFL playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday:

“They came at us with both barrels loaded up and they blew us away. We’ll be having nightmares about the Steelers for a long time.”

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Future ticket? Bumper sticker on the wall of Phoenix Sun Coach Paul Westphal’s office: Limbaugh/Barkley ’96.

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Cowboys and Indians: Bill Walsh, former San Francisco 49er coach, was asked earlier in the season by Ed Werder of the Dallas Morning News to assess Barry Switzer’s role with the Cowboys.

Walsh referred to Switzer as a “ceremonial leader.” Last week somebody asked Switzer about it.

“What does that mean?” he replied. “That I dance around a fire?”

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Vicious: The day after the New York Jets hired Rich Kotite as coach, the New York Post ran a half-page photo of fired coach Pete Carroll and a full-page photo of Kotite under the banner headline “Dumb and Dumber.”

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Clarification: Because of an editing error, Adolph Rupp was identified in Wednesday’s editions as one of four men to coach championship teams in the NCAA tournament, NIT and Olympic Games. In 1948, the Phillips Oilers, National AAU champion, defeated Rupp’s Kentucky team, the NCAA champion, in the final game of the U.S. Olympic trials. Omar Browning, Oiler coach, coached the Olympic team, which included Kentucky players and Rupp as assistant coach.

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Easy target: Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe before the New England Patriots played the Browns in Cleveland on Jan. 1 in a first-round NFL playoff game:

“In any debate of city styles, Cleveland is defenseless. It’s equal parts Newark and Gary, Ind. They didn’t earn the nickname ‘Mistake by the Lake’ for nothing.

“Making fun of Cleveland is like doing layup drills on an eight-foot rim. Slam dunks all over the place.”

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Looking back: On this day in 1969, the New York Jets defeated the heavily favored Baltimore Colts, 16-7, in Super Bowl III at the Orange Bowl.

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Trivia answer: In 1957, 102,368 watched the Rams defeat the San Francisco 49ers, 37-24, at the Coliseum.

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Quotebook: Jack Haley of the San Antonio Spurs on teammate Dennis Rodman: “He’s like Forrest Gump. An interview is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”