Mel Blount

2016 – Youth Service

Southern University
Mel Blount Youth Home

• NFL Defensive MVP – 1975
• 3 time NFL All-Pro
• Played in 5 Pro Bowls, 6 AFC Championship Games and 4 Super
Bowls
• Enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of
eligibility – 1989
• NFL 75th Anniversary All Time Team – 1994
• Inducted into the Georgia and Louisiana Sports Halls of Fame
• Founded the Mel Blount Youth Home in Claysville, Pa in 1989
• Spokesman for Safe and Sound, an organization involved in the
prevention of child abuse

Some of the many awards and accomplishments:

1990
• Boy Scouts of America Pittsburgh – Service Award
• Dapper Dan Pittsburgh – Al Abrams Award
• NAACP – Human Rights Award

1991
• Named 524th Daily Point of Light by President George Bush
• Named one of the Eight National Heroes by US News and World
Report

1992
• Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters – Southern University
• Selected as one of the Ten Most Caring People in America by The
Caring Institute

1996 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award

1997 – Inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame

2000 – NFL Alumni Spirit Award

2002 – NFL Alumni Order of Leather Helmet and Community Service Award

2006 – Life’s Work Career Achievement Award

2007 – Art Rooney Awards Dinner – Bob Prince Humanitarian Award

2011
• Inducted into the Black College Hall of Fame
• Pittsburgh Courier Men of Excellence Award

2012 – The Jerome Bettis Humanitarian Award

2014 – Heinz History Center Outstanding History Makers Award