BOULDER — On a frozen bench in the middle of snow-blanketed Eben G. Fine Park, a solitary bouquet of flowers and a handwritten note paid tribute Wednesday to a legend lost far too soon.
“Rest in Peace Rashaan!” the note read. “You’ll always be a hero of mine brother. CU Buff for life. No matter what.”
It was here Rashaan Salaam, the 1994 Heisman Trophy winner and Colorado legend, is suspected to have ended his own life Monday, his body discovered that bitterly cold evening by a passerby who was visiting the park. Salaam was 42.
Behind the bench on which the flowers rested, water rushed under partially frozen segments of Boulder Creek as bundled-up runners peppered the path nearby.