Years ago, former Colorado football star Rashaan Salaam was standing on the sidelines at a game at Folsom Field when he was asked to leave by a security guard who had good intentions, but simply didn't recognize him.
"One of his more painful moments," former CU teammate Chad Brown recalled this week. "For a guy who was a very sensitive person, that struck him deeply."
The 1994 Heisman Trophy winner and one of the greatest players to ever wear a CU uniform, Salaam sometimes struggled with a perceived lack of recognition from the school.
On Saturday, the late Salaam, who took his own life on Dec.