Forgotten First: A look at four (and more) NFL trailblazers
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The legacy of Bill Nunn Jr.: Without him, the Steelers don t win four Super Bowls
Bill Nunn Jr. was just elected to the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame s Class of 2021. So who was he? Keep reading.
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Bill Nunn Jr. was just elected to the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame s Class of 2021. So who was he? Keep reading.
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Unlike other contributor candidates elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Class of 2021’s Bill Nunn Jr. is relatively unknown.
Outside of Pittsburgh, that is.
A former sports reporter and editor at the
Pittsburgh Courier, Nunn joined the Steelers’ personnel department in the 1970s to become the club’s first African-American appointed to a front-office position.
Jan 19, 2021
The Class of 2021 was elected Tuesday, but the the Pro Football Hall of Fame wants to keep it quiet until next month. Good luck.
The votes are in, and the five modern-era candidates for the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame’s Class of 2021 have been elected. Yet they haven’t been announced. And they won’t . at least for awhile.
Reason: Nobody knows who they are.
Honest.
That’s because this year’s board-of-selectors’ vote, which happened Tuesday, was conducted in such a manner that the results won’t be known – correction:
aren’t supposed to be known – until the televised