Pittsburgh Three Rivers Mugs
Defunct Three Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh Baseball Football Mug
by Defunctland
$13 $18
Description: The Pittsburgh Maulers were a team that competed in the 1984 season of the United States Football League. The Maulers opened their home season with a March 11, 1984 sellout crowd at Three Rivers Stadium facing the Birmingham Stallions. When the USFL voted to switch to a fall schedule in 1986, the Maulers folded because they could not compete with the Steelers and the NFL. The rest of the league soon followed.
Description: After a few games, the Maulers decided their helmet logo didn't stand out enough on tv, so they outlined the Mauler guy! And, they brightened up the orange. They also simplified the "MAULERS" wordmark in many cases to make it simpler to reproduce. This is what their updated pennant graphics likely would have looked like, had one ever been printed!
Description: The Duquesne Incline is a century-old cable car. Originally opened in 1877, the Duquesne Incline was rescued and restored by a group of local residents in 1963. You can view downtown Pittsburgh and its three rivers: The Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio. The French were the first Europeans to settle in any significant size in this area. The rivers provided easy transportation and served as trade routes. The land near the rivers became the focus of battles for domination of the new world. Concerned that the French were getting a foothold in the region, the British sent a young officer by the name of George Washington to warn the French to surrender the land. In the mid-1700s the French and British battled over control of the area ar...
