This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge-2026 Season Week 8

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

7 down, 3 to go. Shoutout to the BattleHawks for honoring the Greatest Show on Turf Rams!! Week 7: St. Louis 31, Columbus 20 Louisville 30, DC 13 Birmingham 21, Dallas 17 (OT) Orlando 24, Houston 23 Week 8: Friday, May 15 - Orlando vs. Dallas at Fort Hood, TX Saturday, May 16 - DC at Louisville; Houston at St. Louis Sunday, May 17 - Columbus at Birmingham

And welcome once again to the unofficial fan lounge, your UFL fan podcast within the feed of this podcast is on called for. I am Mike Sharonowski. I'll be your host for this and every episode of Unofficial Fan Lounge. And we have three more weeks of this season, folks. So let's look into what happened during week seven. So we'll start with the Friday Night game, which was Columbus at St. Louis. Very important to notes that the Battlehawks honored the Greatestown Turf Rams at this game. Never mind that two of them are already on the coaching staff, namely the head coach Ricky Proll,

and one of the assistant coaches, Jeff Skinnina, part of the 99 Great Sean Turf. Rams and won Super Bowl 34. Also in attendance at that game were the Rams coach at the time, take for Mill, and Mike Jones, the linebacker who made the game saving

tackled to end Super Bowl 34, keeping Kevin Dyson from tying that game. And the old offensive lineman, Adam Timmerman, and Annie McCollum were in attendance as well.

and I heard Marshall Falk was at the game two. I didn't see photos of that, unfortunately, of course, Marshall Hallfamer and very well deserved. Just finished coaching last year. The runbacks for University of Colorado and now is the head coach at Southern University. So he's gone the HBCU route. and the BALHawks did not disappoint in honor of this

team that played in that very stadium and the BALCs won 31 to 20 over the aviators so Luis Perez the Spring King they call him making his first start as a battle hawk

204 yards passing one TD, one pick. Not too bad. Jarvan Howard led the team in rushing, 12 attempts for 44 yards. And Hakeem Butler, three catches for 77 yards. Jalen McClendon for Columbus, 153 yards, passing two TDs, one pick. John Lovitz, 10 attempts for 52 yards rushing. and Tay Martin, seven catches, 55 yards, and a touchdown. And the attendance for this game, the lowest in Battlehawks history, 18,563.

I know we can do better than that, and we've got two more games at home to do that. now on to the upsets of week 7 Louisville 30 DC 13 in front of the bear snake so good job out of the kings on a huge win over the leaders of the league and the defend champs So, for Louisville, Chandler Rogers,

201 yards passing for two touchdowns. Ian Wheeler led the team in rushing eight attempts for 64 yards. Isaiah Winstead led the Kings in receiving with four catches for 62 yards. And on the DC side of things, Tejammu, 353 yards passing two touchdance, two interceptions. John Jackson led the defenders in rushing with 12 attempts for 48 yards.

And Cornell Powell, four catches for 109 yards. And another team that's, well, they're all struggling with attendance this year. We'll get to that in a sec. But attendance for this game was 7,950. I know we can do better than that, D.C. and keep the bear snake going, of course. Then we have in overtime, Birmingham 21 and Dallas 17.

So Birmingham, after Rocky starts for the season, slowly turning things around. And Dallas hot starts, but they've now lost four in a row. And this was in Birmingham, and there's a little controversy over the attention. with this one. I tend to believe the other

figure that is given those 7,000 attendance, because it looked like there's 7,000 in attendance, but no, attendance, the official attendance is 4,775. Birmingham, I know we can do better than this. All right.

Anyway, your leaders for the stallions, Dorian Thompson, Robinson. 159 passing yards, two touchdowns and one pick. Leading the stallions in rushing was Tyrion Davis Price, 12 attempts for 45 yards, and Jaden Mickens, leading in the receptions, six catches, 82 yards, and a touchdown. For Dallas, Austin Reed, 166 yards,

Day Day Hunter leading the team in the rushing 11 attempts to 43 yards and Greg Ward leading the renegades in receiving for this game

with four catches 35 yards so Birmingham we can do better with attendance I'm honest honestly and lastly

dead last in attendance is Houston they only had 4,4009 in attendance to see Orlando win over the gamblers 2423. All right. So your team leaders, we'll start with the storm. Plummer, 152 yards passing, two touch ends. Deshawn Corman leading the storm in rushing 7 attempts 25 yards and Elijah Badger leading the team in receiving four catches

75 yards, two touch chance Hunter Deckers leading the gamblers in passing with 268 yards but one pick and we have Marcus Major leading the team in rushing for this game, six attempts, 32 yards. And then Jalen

Moreno Cropper leading the team in the receptions with six catches for 68 yards. So, come on, we can do better with attendance.

We only have three more weeks to go and we can do better. So, here are the standings with seven weeks in the books. Our top

four go into the playoffs. There is no divisions this year. The top standings as of this moment that I'm recording this. St. Louis Bouthawks, 5 and 2 are first. Number 2, Orlando Storm, also

5 and 2. Number 3 is the D.C. Defenders also 5 and 2. So St. Louis, Orlando, D.C. all 5 and 2. Then in 4th place at 3 and

4 is the Birmingham Stallions and right behind them also at 3 and 4 is the Louisville Kings and then right behind them at 3 and 4 is the Dallas Renegades. So if the Plattos were to start today it would be Battlehawks, Storm,

defenders, stallions. So we get our three biggest and best, most defined fan cultures in the playoffs. We got the shirtless, Jason Kelsey impersonators in Burm. We got the Bear Snake in D.C. And we got the Kronky Out chance in St. Louis. Then in seventh place is Columbus at 2 and 5, and Houston is dead last at 2 and 5. And we each have, and they all have three.

more games to go. So let's focus on the next round of games. Week 8. We start with the Friday night game. Orlando at Dallas. Here's the interesting thing because Dallas has

done terribly with attendance this year. This game will not be played in Dallas. It will actually be played within the state of Texas. But at Fort Hood. which is Spats

it's near Waco I know that but south of Dallas and will only be open to active duty military personnel so I think that's

awesome that they're giving back to our military in this way and I hope for a good game I do see Orlando winning though then we got two Saturday games

we'll start with DC and Louisville rematch right away this one's in Louisville and I think DC will get a little bit of revenge egg rolls revenge but what surprised me if

Louisville make it two in a row and then the later game is Houston at St. Louis I will I for one welcome the gamblers to the dome and we're going

to I think we win this one it's not even going to be close and then there's one Sunday game is Columbus at Birmingham and come on you shirtless bastards

show up for this one and I do think the stallions win it and get back to 500 I don't think there are official planes in there as yet but they will be coming very soon I I can almost guarantee that so yeah that will do it for this edition and now we'll talk to you in next week and be one step closer to the United Bull so we'll see you next week