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Brooks: Remembering A Special Saturday With Rashaan Salaam

By: B.G. Brooks, CUBuffs.com

Late Buffs running back provided a career keepsake on Nov. 19, 1994

BOULDER – When you've spent most fall Saturdays of your adult life in press boxes across the nation, not many of them or the football games that placed you there can be recounted as singular.

There are a handful, though, that stamp themselves in your memory. Count Nov. 19, 1994 as being on the A-list of those exceptions.

It was a brilliant Saturday at Colorado's Folsom Field and the afternoon was stocked with storylines:

  • Bill McCartney's seventh-ranked Buffaloes had targeted winless Iowa State as their 10th 'W' in what eventually would be an 11-win season and a No.