This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - 2026 Season Week 10

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

One more week!  One more playoff spot to fill! Week 9: Orlando 27, DC 19 Columbus 36, Birmingham 29 Louisville 37, Dallas 23 St. Louis 21, Houston 15 Week 10: Friday, May 29 - Dallas at St. Louis Saturday, May 30 - Houston at Birmingham Sunday, May 31 - Orlando at DC; Louisville at Columbus Playoffs: Orlando, St. Louis, and DC are in! Louisville and Birmingham are still alive for that final spot Columbus, Dallas and Houston are all done for the year

Welcome back to the unofficial fan lounge, our little sub-series for the UFL within the feet of this podcast is I'm called for. So I'm Mike Chernivsky, I'm your host for this and all editions of the unofficial fan lounge. And week nine is in the books. We have one more week left, and we have a playoff picture. It's a little more solid now. So let's quickly review this weekend's games. We'll start with the Friday night game, which was DC at Orlando.

Storm 27 Defenders 19. No, no, no, no, 19. Let's find our stats leaders. Here we go. Here we go. So for Orlando, leading the team in the passing was Jack Plummer, 275 yards, three touch ends. Joshon Corbyn, leading and rushing, 16 attempts for 52 yards, and Chris Rowland, former defender.

Eight catches, 117 yards, one touchdown. 4 DC, Emeritaoam, who is done for the year, unfortunately. So, Spencer Sanders had to step in at quarterback again, 160 yards passing, and, He also loved the team of rushing this game. Eight attempts for 75 yards. And then Kiki Kuti, interesting name. One catch for 45 yards to lead to DC. 10,465 in attendance in Orlando for this game.

So, looking better. I'm better. DC falls to 5 and 4. Orlando improves to a league best 7 and 2. Let's go to the next game. Birmingham at Columbus. Afeiars 36,

Stallions 29. So Biven upsets and we'll talk about the playoff implications a little bit. Team leaders will start with Columbus as a one so Jeline Morton now quarterback

213 passing yards one pick three touchdowns he also led the team in rushing with 13 attempts 96 yards and 1 TD KK Chisholm led the team in receiving this game three catches

451 yards for Birmingham Dorian Thompson Robinson 957 yards passing one TD but two picks Snoop Connor led the team in rushing 10 attempts for 58 yards and Daywood Davis

5 catches 50 yards the crowd at this one 9,217 and Columbus so Birmingham drives to 4 and 5 Columbus 2,3 and 6 Columbus is

not going to make the playoffs this year. Birmingham still could. We'll talk about then just a little bit. Next game also with playoff implications

in a reverse fashion. This is Dallas at Louisville. Kings 37 Ray Gates 23. And I

I can only hope that some of you know that I'm a big fan of Kevin Smith's work, by the way I say that number. Leading the Kings in those stats kind of goes, Chandler Rogers, 266 yards, two touchdowns. Ian Wheeler led to the two of rushing, 13 attempts, 93 yards and a touchdown, and Tarrick Black, rather. I'm sorry, it's early. four catches, a two yards, one touchdown for the Kings. For Dallas, Austin Reed, 101 yards passing, two TDs, one interception. Lorenzo Lingard, leading the team in rushing, 60 attempts, 56 yards, one TD. And Curtis Hodges, two catches, 39 yards, one touchdown.

Attendance for this game, 10,000. 378 so Louisville continue to do very well in attendance Kings are now 5 and 4 so welcome to winning

team territory there Louisville and Dallas falls to 3 and 6 and are done for the playoffs so they will not be they will not be participant

and then the last game St. Louis at Houston. Time for some revenge and oh yeah, we got a revenge. Battlehawks 21, gamblers 15. Our league leaders will start with the battlehawks, Luis Perez,

239 yards passing, one TD, one pick, Jarvion Howard, 14 rushes for 55 yards, and Stephen McBride led the battlehawks and catches, six catches for

for 76 yards. For Houston, John Reese Pumley. John Rees Plumley enunciate. 131 yards for and one pick

passing. Marcus Yarns let the team in rushing. 13 attempts, 98 yards, and Jalen Moreno Cropper. Four catches, 103 yards. So,

Ballhawks improved to 6 and 3 and we did clenched that playoff spot finally and Houston drops to 3 and 6 and they are done attendance for this game 6,217 which means

final attendance for so we get final attendance figures for a few teams with this one. So Louisville, this was their last home game.

They averaged 11,195, which is good enough for a second behind the bowhawks, of course. Orlando finished an average of 9,830. So having a winning team helps

clearly. and Houston are dead last in attendance this year, 5,683. So they're not quite Memphis showboats of last year bad with attendance, but it's still pretty bad. So as the attendance goes to St. Louis, of course, number one, then Louisville, Columbus, Orlando, Birmingham, D.C., Dallas, Houston. That's the order. So, yeah, the best week so far, and we got one more of these. Best week, it tends wise, was week one, where the average 16,000,

where the Lee average was 16,000. So far, week five was the worst with a, with a, the wide average of 7,500. And so maybe Rapoli was on to something when he did the halftime

when he introduced the idea of halftime concerts at the first games. Maybe they should do that every game. I don't know. We'll see what happens. All right.

Now we can talk playoffs. So, and the standings. So the standings as of right now, Orlando, 7 and 2, and they are in the playoffs. St. Louis, 6 and 3, and they are in the playoffs. DC 5 and 4 playoffs. Louisville, 5 and 4 have not made the playoffs just yet. Birmingham 4 and 5, they are still able to get a playoff spot. Dallas, Houston, and Columbus are each three and six and have been eliminated from playoff competition.

So Orlando, St. Louis and D.C. are in the playoffs. There's one playoff spot left. It will be between Louisville and Birmingham. And let's look at that last week of the UFL regular season. and very well could come down to the final game. So Friday nights, I'm going to find a way to watch this game. It will be Dallas at St. Louis. And I hope we win this game

because we got to get some revenge for Dallas tagging us with a loss earlier this year. So Egg Rolls Revenge, but at least our playoff Disney is secure. So, Calco's law. On Saturday, we got one game, Houston at Birmingham.

Stallions fans show up shirtless or not. And, yeah, just because I know you guys can do great attendance and everything. This is the week to show it. All right.

All right, Birmingham can still make the playoffs. depending on what happens here so so show up show out and giddy up Orlando DC once again this one's in DC and from the Bear Snake and this will be on Sunday both teams we know both teams are going to make the playoffs they'll be a little less embarrassing if DC were to win it but Orlando is demonstrated they are a good team this year. Once again, Anthony backs our former head coach with St. Louis, proven that he can coach, at least in the regular season. So playoffs, different story.

But I expect a good game there. And then the last game with the regular season is Louisville at Columbus. Remember back in midseason, these were probably the two worst teams in the league. Well, here we are. Louisville able to close. lunch a playoff spot with a win here and both teams have performed great attendance-wise all right obviously one as I've proven they can win better than the other one because they are on the cusp of game that final playoff spot so it will come down to the last game of the season and who who guess it will be the key or will be the stallions we shall see and then playoffs will start the following week and then we get and so we get the two playoff games and then United Bowl 3

part of the 2026 United Bowl we should be calling it with 50 cent playing halftime at Audi field so that will do it for this edition of unofficial fan lounge good luck to own the teams this weekends

and who survives Louisville or Birmingham good I see talk to all next week