While it would be disingenuous to suggest that the Pittsburgh Steelers have never had tumultuous player relations before, one would be hard-pressed to find direct comparisons to what we’ve seen with the situations between the team and former players Le’Veon Bell and Antonio Brown over the course of the past two years.
Of course, there have been plenty of instances of players holding out, even Hines Ward. And there was that time that Mel Blount literally sued Chuck Noll for defamation. Things have certainly happened in the past.