The Birmingham Steeds have brought home the initial two titles of USFL 2.0.

With a 28-12 victory over the Pittsburgh Maulers on Saturday night, the Stallions concluded their second title run in a row.

In two seasons with 24 all out games, the Steeds have posted a record of 21-3 under mentor Skip Holtz.

Again, Birmingham was led by league MVP Alex McGough, who threw four touchdown passes and gained another 64 yards rushing. The championship game’s MVP receiver, Deon Cain, caught four passes for 70 yards and three scores. In two postseason game, McGough tossed eight score passes and no captures. He added 148 surging yards.

Birmingham pulled away from a 14-9 halftime score to win the game, despite Pittsburgh taking an early 3-0 lead. Birmingham then led 7-3 and never trailed again. The defense of the Stallions prevented the Maulers from scoring; Pittsburgh’s 12 focuses came on four field objectives from Chris Blewitt.

For the second consecutive year, the title game was played in Canton, Ohio.

The USFL at first appeared in 1983. The league was revived last year by Fox. The games are broadcast both by Fox and NBC. The title game showed up on NBC and Peacock.

Thus closes the transfer of football seasons that began with the NFL, proceeded with multi week after the Super Bowl with the XFL, and finished up following a couple of ends of the week off cross-over with the USFL.

Players in the United States Football League (USFL) will now have to determine whether or not their efforts in the four-letter spring and summer league will lead to tryouts or roster spots with NFL teams. The Seahawks selected McGough in the seventh round in 2017 and he has performed sufficiently to at least receive some consideration.