The Pittsburgh Maulers are officially dead. Again.
Reported weeks ago and now made official today, the USFL-XFL merger is only taking four teams who played in the two-year restarted USFL league. And the Maulers aren’t one of them.
Per Pro Football Talk, the four teams carried over into the merger don’t include Pittsburgh.
“The combined USFL-XFL has informed the USFL Players Association, which has informed its members, that four teams from the USFL will survice for 2024: Michigan, Houston, Memphis, and Birmingham.”
Pittsburgh, along with New Jersey, Philadelphia, and New Orleans, are out of the picture.