On Wednesday, one of the stars of those Steelers teams, Mel Blount, joined The Cook & Joe Show to say his goodbyes to Ron Cook. The long-time writer ... was timed in the 40-yard dash in the ...

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 ...

The rule was made for two reasons: to open up the game, and to limit the Steel Curtain's level of dominance it had over the NFL at that time. It was coined the Mel Blount Rule, and while it opened ...