CANTON, Ohio — Prime Time has come to Canton — with an extra touch of gold. And a black do-rag.

Deion Sanders strutted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame last night sporting a pair of gold shoes to go with the gold jacket emblematic of the special company he has become a part of.

At the end of his riveting acceptance speech, he placed his ubiquitous do-rag on his hall bust.

“This game taught me how to be a man,” Sanders said. “This game taught me if I get knocked down, I got to get my butt back up.”

Sanders joined Marshall Faulk in entering the hall in their first year of eligibility. Shannon Sharpe, Richard Dent, Chris Hanburger, Les Richter and NFL Films founder Ed Sabol also were enshrined before an enthusiastic crowd of 13,300 inside half-full Fawcett Stadium.

Sharpe expected to change his life as a kid who went to college with two brown grocery bags filled with his belongings. All he heard was how he was destined to fail.

Sharpe went from a seventh-round draft pick to the most prolific tight end of his time. He won two Super Bowls with Denver and one with Baltimore.

In his speech, Sharpe passionately made a pitch to get his brother, Sterling, who played seven years with the Packers, considered for election to the shrine.

“I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family,” Sharpe said.

Faulk was voted the NFL’s top offensive player in 1999, 2000 and 2001, and was the NFL’s MVP in 2000. He made seven Pro Bowls, and was the first player to gain 2,000 yards from scrimmage in four consecutive years.

Dent was a dynamic pass rusher on one of the NFL’s greatest defenses, the 1985 NFL champion Bears.

A senior committee nominee, Hanburger played nine seasons for the Redskins, making nine Pro Bowls.