The Mel Blount Rule surely frustrates the current crop of cornerbacks, but the man who bears the rule’s name is doing just fine. Mel Blount’s Steelers would go on to win the 1979 Super Bowl ...
On Wednesday, one of the stars of those Steelers teams, Mel Blount ... asked Blount if he would recount, one more time, the story of the infamous NFL rule change that bears his name.
From its inception in 1978, that rule has been known in history as the “Mel Blount Rule.” To not name Blount as a top 10 ...