In 1980, Super Bowl XIV between the Rams and Steelers provided a lifeline for U.S. hostages in Iran

He endured beatings, mock firing squads and long periods of solitary confinement. His hands were tied behind his back for 30 days in which he was forbidden to speak.

Rocky Sickmann spent 444 days in captivity during the Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were, according to Iranian propaganda,...