As the unexpected ownership issues in Pittsburgh continue to gather steam, one high-profile native son who has been linked in the past to the local baseball and hockey teams says he’s not interested in the NFL franchise.

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by e-mail that he “would not be interested” in acquiring a portion of the team.

The NFL’s cross-ownership rules would prevent Cuban from becoming majority owner of the Steelers, given his ownership of an NBA team in a city that has an NFL team.  But Cuban wouldn’t be precluded from holding a minority interest in the Steelers.

The Post-Gazette also reports that the four brothers of team chairman Dan Rooney are working with Goldman Sachs to find a buyer for their interest in the team.  Per the Post-Gazette, the development points to a 90-percent chance that their shares will be sold to the highest bidder.

It appears that Dan Rooney and his son, Art II, are separately looking to line up investors who won’t aspire to acquire the biggest chunk of the team; Dan and Art II are working with Morgan Stanley and PNC Bank to find investors who would buy all or a portion of the four brothers’ shares. 

Pittsburgh billionaire Stan Druckenmiller reportedly is interested in acquiring the 16-percent shares held by the four Rooney brothers not named Dan, which would give Druckenmiller 64 percent of the franchise.

From Dan Rooney’s perspective, the ideal solution likely would be for Dan and Art II to buy enough of Dan’s brothers’ interest to have the biggest piece of the team, and to have outside investors buy what Dan and Art II can’t afford.

Unless someone ultimately holds more than 50 percent, the McGinley family suddenly would become the wild card in the ownership structure, since their 20-percent share would represent the swing vote on any matters about which the remaining Rooneys and the newcomers might disagree.