March 13, 2025
By Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY: Colorado football coach Deion Sanders introduced a special guest Thursday to provide advice and inspiration to his team in Boulder. But this was no ordinary minister.
This was Denzel Washington, who appeared live via video and addressed Colorado players for more 30 minutes. The famed actor recently earned his license as a minister in New York. On Thursday, he preached to the Buffaloes about his own life, including how he used drugs as a youth in New York and even went home to drink when he didn’t win an Academy Award as an actor.
Washington, 70, also talked about how he had “flunked out of college” and was sitting in his mother’s beauty parlor on March 27, 1975, when a woman there told him he would “travel the world and preach to millions of people.”
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