(Source) LeGarrette Blount could not reach his seat at the Super Bowl media event before he was confronted by two former Steelers teammates. Unlike his rough and sudden exit from the Steelers in November, Blount, now with the New England Patriots, was greeted by warm handshakes and hugs from Brett Keisel and Ike Taylor. Blount did answer with a soft “No” and a shake of his head when asked if he orchestrated his exit from the Steelers. He would not answer whether he knew the Patriots might have wanted him back before he left the Steelers. “It’s an honor to be back here, you know,” Blount said. “I enjoyed my time here when I was here last year, and it’s an honor to be back, just the fact that they care enough about me to bring me back here.”

He has pretty much been a scumbag since before he was an NFL guy. He made headline’s at Oregon when he socked a Boise State hardo in the face after an early season upset.

The thing is, he could have been our scumbag and if he were here to spell LeVeon Bell we would have beat the Ravens. Textbook Rooney / Tomlin, every successful team has balance and sometimes you need a scumbag to hoist the Lombardi (Blount, Ray Lewis, etc).

Looking ahead we can find some fandom in our ex here, but more importantly, Aliquippa’s finest, Darrelle Revis. He’s a homegrown legend and we wish him all the best locking down Revis Island this Sunday. Ironically his old stopping grounds north of the city, referred to as ‘The Pit,’ seems to have its own layer of scum.

Once a proud, bustling steel mill town, 20 minutes north of Pittsburgh, Aliquippa has since rusted into a state of drug infestation, gang life and urban flight.
Once 30,000-people strong, rich in ethnically segregated neighborhoods, steeped deep in old-country traditions, Aliquippa now lays riddled in abandoned slum rows, littered with the devastation of crack and other street drugs. Now, barely a third of the population remains.

Sad indeed, but just reaffirming the new age golden rule…. Every team needs their flavor of scum.