CANTON, Ohio —Mel Blount finally is getting some company from Southern University in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Exactly 25 years after being enshrined in 1989, following a spectacular career with the great Pittsburgh Steelers teams of the 1970s, Blount will be joined Saturday night by former Southern star Aeneas Williams.
Being only the second former Southern player to be elected to the Hall has even more meaning for Williams, who like Blount played cornerback for 14 NFL seasons.
It’s extra special to Williams because his father, Lawrence, attended Southern when Blount was on his way to stardom during his career with the Jaguars in the late 1960s.
“I love football and I’m a historian of the game, so I knew Mel’s statistics and all of that,” Williams said Friday, on the eve of his induction along with six other former NFL greats.
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