Colorado practice clip widely mocked around social media

On Tuesday, Colorado's Twitter account posted a highlight clip from practice. From that innocuous, unremarkable statement, all hell broke loose.

The clip, a purported touchdown pass from Shedeur Sanders to LaJohntay Webster, was edited in a way that, as it cut from a view from behind Sanders to a view from the back of the end zone, it appeared that Colorado had stitched two videos together to trick viewers into believing the Sanders throw and the Websters catch happened on the same play when they really didn't. 

Add in the aggressive caption and the fact that this is a Deion Sanders-led program, and the rest of the Sports Internet was eager to mock Colorado for trying to get one over on us. Not on our watch, Coach Prime!

The sports world caught Coach Prime and co. in a lie, except there's a twist ending here. The play... was real the entire time?

The whole thing looks real to me, but I'm no expert, and in the end I really don't care.

What I find fascinating about this entire episode is that one of these things is true: Either Colorado football has become so wholly consumed by the Sanders family that the program and everyone who plays for and works within it now simply exist as props for the head coach and the starting quarterback, and they're so committed to their roles that they'll double-down when caught in a lie. Or, the sports world is so willing to cast the Sanderses in particular, and Colorado in general, as frauds that evidence of their exploits will be re-written as lies in real time. It has to be one or the other.

As we head into Year 2 of the Prime Experiment in Boulder, I've been asked if the Coach Prime story has played out. As one single 20-second clip shows, Colorado is still very much a Main Character of college football.