“Don’t you know in the offseason of 1978, they changed the rule,” Blount concluded. “They called it the 'Mel Blount rule.' That’s kind of a backdrop of that story. It changed the whole game.

NFL Hall of Famer and HBCU legend, Mel Blount, looks back on the impact he had on the game of football. Watch and listen as Jerry Rice, Marquette King and more talk about the start of athletes ...

It was coined the Mel Blount Rule, and while it opened the game like never before, it only made the Steelers even more dominant as the decade of the 1970s drew to a close. Up until the start of ...

Mel Blount was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 1989. Blount was also an inaugural member of the Steelers Hall of Honor as a member of the Class of 2017. There aren ...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: To listen to the Mel Blount interview, click on the following link: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/eyetestfortwo?selected=BRCM6962289261) When we ...

For two decades in organized athletics, Mel Blount made (and remade) himself with a simple formula: No one, he declared both publicly and privately, would outwork him. That work ethic began on his ...

John Stallworth came from Alabama A&M, Mel Blount from Southern, Joe Gilliam from Tennessee State and Frank Lewis from ...

Running back D'Andre Swift shares his reaction after being traded to Philadelphia Eagles. PFF NFL Analyst Sam Monson: Los Angeles Rams got 'one of the steals of the draft' in Rams cornerback Tre ...

The Steelers defense that you paint as awful allowed the Commanders 242 yards of total offense, 60 yards rushing, 4.1 ...

Prior to the contest, Porter received the praise of Steelers Hall of Famer cornerback Mel Blount. He was on hand for the 50th-anniversary ceremony to honor the 1974 Super Bowl IX championship team.

The big football schools weren’t recruiting black players, particularly in the South. Mel Blount said many of his peers and some of his older siblings — he is the youngest of 11 — picked ...