Mel Blount remembers when he was a rookie in 1970 at Steelers training camp, seeing an injured player on the sideline. This guy was hobbled. He wasn’t playing. He could hardly walk.
Later, Blount found out he was looking at Rocky Bleier. The same Rocky Bleier who would transform his Vietnam War-wounded body into one that eventually ran for more than 1,000 yards in 1976 and won four Super Bowl titles with the Steelers.
Blount was there for all four, too, and he and Bleier will be reunited tonight at the 81st annual Dapper Dan Dinner and Sports Auction at David L.