BOULDER — Matt Russell won a Super Bowl ring with the Broncos, but the Buffaloes were his first love in Colorado. So he spoke to CU players from the heart. And this is what the All-America linebacker from the football program’s glory days felt he had to say:
The best way for the Buffs to honor the past is to stop chasing ghosts.
“Look,” Russell recently told me, reconstructing the major theme of a speech he gave to the CU team back in September. “I’m 43 years old and I have kids of my own. What we did in the 1990s was great.