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Former NFL legend and current college coach Deion Sanders has brokered an agreement between Pepsi and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
Pepsi will be the official beverage for the conference’s football and basketball championship games for the next three years. The deal is part of Pepsi’s Racial Equity Journey.
Sanders, who played for five NFL teams between 1989 and 2005 is now the head football coach at Jackson State University. Sanders, who had a relationship with the soft drink giant from his playing days, helped broker the agreement as a coach in the SWAC.
“We’ve been in a relationship for a long time,” Sanders told