BOULDER — Six teammates who had celebrated with Rashaan Salaam through some of the highest points reached by the Colorado football program more than two decades ago trudged through the snow Friday to deliver their friend to his final resting place.
They pulled the the wooden casket out of the hearse and placed it on the frozen ground and placed it next to the edge of the six-foot hole in a corner of the Mountain View Memorial Park cemetery. Then the 1994 Heisman Trophy winner was lifted from the box, his body wrapped in a white cloth, and lowered into the ground.