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Dwight Perry

Sideline Chatter: Call Deion Sanders arrogant, but you can't call him wrong

Test? Deion Sanders don't need no stinking test.

The New York Giants got an early introduction to Neon Deion's bravado at the 1989 NFL combine.

"They sat me down and gave me a thick book ... thicker than a phone book," Sanders told The Dallas Morning News. "I said, 'What's this?'

"They said, 'This is our test that we give all the players.'

"I said, 'Excuse me, what pick do you have in the draft?'

"They said, 'Tenth.'

"I said, 'I'll be gone before then. I'll see y'all later.' "

Sanders was selected fifth _ by the Atlanta Falcons.

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