This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - 2026 UFL Season End

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Congratulations to the Louisville Kings on winning United Bowl 3! We'll be back next year.  Not sure it will be on this feed. United Bowl 3: Louisville 27, DC 20

And welcome to the final unofficial fan lounge for the 26 United Football League season. I'm Mike Cherniewski. I'm your post for this podcast. I'm strongly considering taking it off the UnCall 424 Feed 427. I'll probably make a YouTube channel or something. But you've got to do something like that. So, especially with... the amount of material we have wrong called for and all that so let's get right into it says

United Bowl 3 happened the day I'm recording this Louisville 27 DC 20 so good job out of the Louisville Kings their first year of existence may a title of it team in the game Chandler Rogers for the Kings 81 yards passing two picks in Wheeler who is was the game MVP 10 Russian attempts 81 yards on a touchdown and Tarreek Black leading the Kings in their receiving with one catch for 40 yards for DC your passing later is E.J. Perry formerly the Michigan Panthers 50 yards one pick. Valaday, I'm still not going to try your first name dude, but four Russian intense 111 yards one touchdown. Cornel Powell led the defenders in

receiving with three catches for 40 yards. So congratulations to the Kings on winning United Bowl three. So I'm doing the same thing that the NFL does with the Super Bowl. The first two warrants called the Super Bowl, but were retroactively done. So I'm going to do that for this league. So 24, United Bowl, Birmingham. United Bowl 2, D.C., United Bowl 3, Louisville. Attendance for this game, 19,023 in D.C.

And yes, there was a giant, Beersnake. there so so congratulations to the kings since this is the end of the season let's go and and recognize those season ending awards so start with the MVP that would be Jack Plummer the quarterback for Orlando congratulations offensive player of the year goes to Hakeem Butler the wide receiver for the Ballahawks defensive player of the year Ken Gill with Louisville Defense alignment

Special teams play of the year also with Louisville that would be Tanner Brown the current kicker Sportsman of the year Goes to Cornell Powell of the defenders Coach of the year Anthony Beck's now with Orlando

of course You've been of course with St. Louis before that. And speaking of the assistant coach of the year is Corey Chamberlain, the defensive coordinator for the Bell Hawks.

All UFL team at quarterback it is Jack Plummer. Rineback is Dion Jackson with D.C. Wide receivers, Hakeem Butler,

Chris Rowland, now with Orlando, and Tyler Vaughn's with Dallas. tied in is Tyler Neville with the Battlehawks. The two tackles, Gottlieb Ayyadze with Houston and Yasser Durant with D.C. The two guards, Michael Gonzalez with Orlando and Gareth Warren with Houston. And at center is the Bellhawks long time center, Mike Panacea.

On defense, we start the defense tackles. We have Isaiah Bugs with Orlando and Carlos Davis with the Ballahawks, the cousin of our occasional co-hosts, Terrence Hayes. At the two defensive ends, the edge they now call it Cam Gill with Lovel and Derek Robertson. with DC. At linebacker, we're going four three here, so at linebacker, we have Tay Crowder with Birmingham, Tony Fields and Seconds, Columbus, and Kiava Tezino, also with Birmingham. And the DBs are Major Burns with Houston, DJ Miller Jr. with Columbus, Corey Mayfield, Jr. with Loval

and Carrie Vincent Jr. with Houston. Kicker, Tanner Brown with Loval. Punter. Ryan Sanborn. Battlehawks. Long sapper. Marco Ortiz with Houston. Kicker Turner, Chris Rowland. Punterter Turner. Sean Fresh with the Battlehawks. And I don't know what CS stands for, but it is

but it is Gary Jennings Jr. also with the Ball Hawks. So good job of all these individuals. There will be a 2027 season. It sounds like they will not be moving any of the teams. That's good. But you do have some attendance issues.

to address this year. I don't know what the solution is. Maybe it is do better marketing in those cities. Try to find local ownership groups to buy

into the league. Same way MLS does with their own. So, MLS that operates as a single entity just like the UFL, but each team has their own owners, but the league still owns a piece of the team.

So you could do something like that. Just fine. You're a local owners. I just made this suggestion on social media for the Bauhawks. When the Rams were on their way too moving, there was a possibility of certain Rams players, namely Isaac Bruce and Chris Long. had experienced interest in this, that they would either buy the Rams themselves or buy into an expansion team.

So obviously neither happened, but this would be a good opportunity for guys like that to get into a sports ownership and to keep the team in St. Louis. I don't know if they want to go the fan ownership route. I think that would be a great idea. no but we will we'll see what happens there

um uh micropoli the who is now the face of the uh the UFO now that he's bought

in part of that's a giant ownership group now and it's clearly the face of the league now um said yeah there will be 10 teams in the 28th and that he would personally go bankrupt

before this league were to go under and I applaud him for that we know that Oklahoma City is getting a team in the 28 we don't know who the 10th team is going to by will remind mr. Rapoli that you did make a promise to Michigan Panthers fans that if Detroit City FC's stadium was ready by then

that Michigan would be returning us at 10th team so I want to remind you of that and now to end official fan lands for 226 here

the final power rankings for the league will go and reverse our So we'll start at eight and that has to be Columbus. Three and seven missed the playoffs altogether. I will give them credits that they did very well attendance-wise, top three. But on the field, not good.

And you might want to do something about that fan base too because I understand one of your big fans is, He's a known fucking menace to Society who drives the two feet is prone to fall asleep at the wheel. I'm talking about AJ Hawk, of course, if you're not familiar with the Pat McAfee Show. And you have Jim Larnitis and your fan base too.

Another former St. Louis ran, but he played for the Ohio State. I guess he's coaching there now. And he once told one of his former ran teammates. No. Oh, I'm sorry. No, he was told by

his former teammate, quit teaching my kid bad words. And he was like, well, what, the bad words you speak out, it's the fairly inoffensive phrase, go bucks.

As in the Ohio State Buckeyes. Yeah, exactly. That, like I said, bad words. We do not say those words. in this house. So number eight, Columbus. Number seven is Houston. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Don't matter if it's the roughneck name or the gambler's name. Some of this just off with that team, in my opinion. And the attendance. Attendance

continues to be an issue for Houston. I don't know way it is. But I would give them one more year to figure it out because that is inexcusable

what they're doing there. I mean, we're talking fourth largest city in the United States, Houston. You can easily support this team. And you are a football city. You know, you have the Texans. And you have the University of Houston

there. So, no excuses. Support this team. Yeah. and uh but and but of course the team needs to do bear too and no I don't think that June Jones or Wade Phillips are walking through that door anytime soon both of those men they're older now and their best days are sadly behind them so I don't think any of those guys are coming back so but some needs to be done all right place stuff needs to be

dumb. Number six, Dallas. All right. Yeah, they do have an XFL championship, but they locked into that. All right, you've heard me talk about how the XFL fucked up and left the Ballahawks out of the

plows in one year. And the Rangades were the beneficiary. And then? Now, granted, they have playmakers on that team. But their tenants also struggled this year.

So I just don't know what to say about it. The only reason they're not seventh, to be completely honest with you, is they drew better than Houston, and they beat us twice. So six is Dallas five. And this is something I was not thinking of a saying before this season starting, but number five is Birmingham guys I know you can do better attendance-wise and you certainly

have the capability to win it's a turn that around yeah you yeah I get it you are decimated a little bit by the redraft that happened before the season

and then I don't know if skip holds would entertain coming back because I know he was a key part of the stallions of success pre-merger and post-merger and post-merger.

Of course, his father, the great Luholtz, passed away before the season started. So that obviously took a toll on why he stepped down. I don't know if he's going to want to come back.

But certainly and I think AJ McCarran. Great quarterback, obviously, with the battle hawks. I don't know how he... Fair. I don't know how good a coach he actually is. And reading one player's comments today,

he's got a lot of work to do. So, AJ, let's focus on being a coach. Be a leader. Don't just go out there yelling Fuck this, fuck that. You ain't Bobby Knight. All right, Bobby Knight could get away with that stuff because he won. All right.

You got a lot of work to do. So number five, Birmingham. Number four, I hate to put us here, but this is where we belong. Number four is St. Louis. We have an overall winning records. We have never had a losing record. And yes, I'm including the abbreviated 2020 season

in this, but we have never had a losing record. But we just have not been able to win the playoffs. Something needs to change. Something needs to change. We've already changed coaches. Ricky. Ricky Prawl. Let's make shit happen.

let's re-tool for 2027 and let's fucking win this thing, all right? Clearly, you have the makings of a good coach. Right. And clearly you have your respect

of the St. Louis community. But for the love of God, let's fucking win this thing. All right. Let's do this. And to the fans, yeah, attendance was way down this year, but we're still in the league in attendance. That's not going to change.

But attendance has gone down to we were average in 22K a year this past year. I know we can do better than that. And I would like to remind you that the Rams gave us 12 straight years, non-winning football, including the worst five-year stretch in NFL history before Stan decided to lie his way out of St. Louis. You're abandoning a team that has never had a losing record, but just can't get done in the playoffs. Something needs to change, and hopefully it changes next year,

because when I do this program again next year, I want to say your United Bull 4 champion St. Louis Battlehawks. All right. And we've got to do, we're clearly got to do Barrett quarterback. Luis Perez's best ace are clearly behind him. And I'm not too sold about the other guys either. So we got to fix. He's been fixed.

It's quarterback. and that's about it. So the caca is still the law. But unfortunately, performance-wise, I have to put us at four. And there are three. Similar vein of the stainless battlehawks, we put the Orlando Storm at three.

And our former coach, Anthony Beckt, who clearly did a great job with this team. I wish we did recognize, like the NHL does with best team record-wise. That way the battlehawks would have a title, because we did have the best record in 25. And here, Orlando has the best record in 26, and they could not get done in the plows. So not just a battle-hawks thing. This isn't anything Beck's thing, too. so great

regular season but can't get done in the playoffs so I hope he fixes that not against us but I hope he fixes that so number three Orlando number two DC defending champs unfortunately are not able to defend their title

with more of the same people the injury to Jordan Tehamu clearly hurt because they finished 500 but we're still able to get done in the playoffs and technically host a playoff game and other fans can do better too y'all showed up today

to support this team uh in their house you almost filled the damn place up and uh got the bear snake going i know tc can do better at 9,000 a game and that's a

that's our other step in the right direction so yeah if it ain't broke so DC number two of course number one has to be our new champions in Louisville

ranked second in attendance behind St. Louis they did not have the hardest of stars they started 0 and 3 and I was honestly thinking this team is garbage and not going to be able to get it done but they got done. And I cried to Chris Redmond and everyone in Louisville for making it happen.

So congratulations. You all deserve it. And yeah, we'll see these eight teams again next year. And hopefully for years down the road, I think we finally have the solution. to spring football. And with all that out of the way, I'm going to say we'll see you next time. We'll probably be spending this off,

either as a web series or maybe in the podcast. I'm primarily into a web series at this moment. But we'll see what happens. Until then, we will talk soon. Louisville Kings we're breaking chains