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USA Today
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
First Look: Steelers Super Bowl IX team honored during Mel Blount's Celebrity Roast
First Look: Steelers Super Bowl IX team honored during Mel Blount's Celebrity Roast Members of the Steelers Super Bowl IX team and more were on hand for the @MelBlountYLI annual celebrity roast, honoring the 50th anniversary of the team's first Super Bowl. 🗒️ : — Teresa Varley (@Teresa_Varley) April 12, 2025 The Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl IX-winning team was in full celebration mode on Friday at the 2025 Mel Blount Youth Home All-Star Celebrity Roast. The celebrity roast is typically centered around one person for the evening—but with this being the 50th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Steelers' first-ever Super Bowl title, the event instead focused on Super Bowl IX. Legendary four-time Super Bowl champion Terry Bradshaw, who recently made headlines for his heroic actions at Pittsburgh International Airport, 'Mean' Joe Greene, John Stallworth, and other key members of the Super Bowl IX victory joined Blount at the event. Blount explained that the moment was bittersweet, as many of the Super Bowl IX-winning team have since passed away, which the official Steelers website detailed below: "I was a little bit sentimental of the fact that there's so many guys that are not with us anymore," Blount stated. "When you talk about this event being special, this couldn't be more special because of the accomplishment we made. But it's more than that. I don't know how to put it into words because you get kind of emotional." Bradshaw was designated as the master of ceremonies for the celebrity roast, which is perfectly fitting as he is one of the most entertaining Pittsburgh Steelers in history. Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl IX team on the 50th anniversary of winning the Steel City's first Lombardi Trophy.
USA Today
25-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Steelers legend gives the hard truth about team's flaws
Steelers legend gives the hard truth about team's flaws I've always considered myself very fortunate to have grown up watching the great Pittsburgh Steelers teams of the 1970s. That group that won four Super Bowls in six seasons will always rank among the strongest NFL dynasties of all time. One of the anchors of those elite Steelers defenses was cornerback Mel Blount. A player so physical and so dominant that the NFL had to change the rules to accommodate him. Blount was recently on Ben Roethlisberger's Footbahlin with Ben Roethlisberger Podcast, and he didn't hold back from discussing the problems with the Steelers roster. Blount didn't have much good to say about the team and really said the quiet part out loud about the weaknesses on this roster. 'I think the Steelers, right now, they could use help at every position,' Blount said. The thing is, Blount isn't wrong. He goes on to say that if the defense didn't have T.J. Watt, they wouldn't have much. There's no denying the Steelers defense has woefully underachieved given the financial investment the team has made. It has to be tough be a player like Blount, who spent his entire career in Pittsburgh and was part of the Steel Curtain defense, watching his franchise unravel like it has. Pittsburgh heads into 2025 having not won a playoff game since 2016. For the fifth straight season, there is uncertainty at the quarterback position and the team will have its fifth different starter in as many years this season. For a franchise that prides itself so much on continuity and consistency, this is completely out of character and a huge reason why this team has struggled since the retirement of Roethlisberger.
