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 ...
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 ...