Actor Denzel Washington addresses Deion Sanders’ team at Colorado

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.”

“And now 50 years later, I get the opportunity with the University of Colorado football team to really … practice it with ya’ll,” Washington told the team, as documented by Thee Pregame Network, which chronicles Sanders and the CU football program. “I’m not preaching to you or at you, I’m sharing my experience with you.”

What else did Denzel Washington say?

He said his favorite movie is his “next movie” because it represents an opportunity to get better. But he said one movie seems to have especially resonated with people.

“More people talk about The Equalizer now than any other movies I did put together,” Washington said. “I don’t know what it is. They just like seeing me killing people.”

That triggered laughter from the team, but Washington also talked about knowing killers in real life.

He said he “shot dope” when he was 13 years old and sold drugs, too, including cocaine. One time he said he almost got caught with a needle in his arm in the bathroom at private school but “God’s grace” sent him on a different path.

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Publish date : 2025-03-13 20:38:00

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