Former Pittsburgh Steelers defensive backs coach Ray Horton is back in the city—at least nominally—although not in the NFL, to coach football. He enters this year as the head coach for the Pittsburgh Maulers, the USFL outshoot who was the worst team in the upstart league a year ago under another former Steelers assistant, Kirby Wilson.
In spite of the Maulers’ 1-9 record, however, they didn’t clean house; in fact, Wilson resigned. But his staff remained largely intact, including Jarren Horton—Ray’s son. He tells Joe Rutter of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that that is the true reason he decided to take the job.