This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Season Conference Championships Week

Episode Date: June 5, 2025

The regular season is over!  On to the playoffs!  We also start our power rankings, beginning with the teams that didn't make the playoffs. Week 10 Results: St. Louis 13, DC 8 Houston 19, Michigan 12 Arlington 23, San Antonio 6 Birmingham 46, Memphis 9 Conference Championships: Sunday, June 8 - USFL Conference: Michigan at Birmingham Sunday, June 8 - XFL Conference: DC at St. Louis

And welcome to the unofficial fanlown. your unofficial United Football League podcast within the feed of this podcast. I'm calling for my name is Mike Chernevsky. I will be your host for this and anything else on the screen soon. All right. So, the regular season is done, folks. 10 weeks in. And we are ready for playoffs.

And I'm ready to give power rankings for this season for at least half the league. So, yeah, let's do this. So we will start with the Friday night game. Our preview of this weekend's XFL conference championship between St. Louis and D.C., final, Battlehawks 13, Defenders 8, 12,0624 was the announced attendance. They did get Bear Snake going, and what's interesting about this game was there was a significant rain delay because it was raining pretty hard in the D.C. area on Friday night. So glad we got the win. That secure is the best regular season record this year for the Battlehawks at 8 and 2, and DC will finish the regular season at 6 and 4. so heck of a turnaround for the defenders who didn't even make the playoffs last year's too

yeah our Saturday game Houston at Michigan Michigan did a bobblehead night to honor Jake Bates which turned out to be a good thing because 16,014 people showed up to ford field for this one unfortunately the roughnecks got the win 19 to 12 over the Panthers so roughnecks will finish 5 and 5 which will make them the most improved team this year record wise but not improved enough to make the playoffs because Michigan finishes the regular season six and four Then we had our two games on Sunday, the first battle for basically nothing in San Antonio. So the fourth home game for the Brahmus.

But did not go the home team's way because it was Renegades 23, Brahmus 6 in front of 10,8663 at the Alamo Dome. reggaids finish 5 and 5 the Brahmas are 1 and 9 so San Antonio did way worse than

last year this team made the championship game so they've got some issues to address and then our final game and for 4,573 people. Birmingham, 46, Memphis 9. So, yeah, not a good year for the showboats,

but a pretty good year for Birmingham. The stallions finish the regular season, 7 and 3, and will host the USFL Conference Championship next week. And the showboats season is done, It's 2 and 8, which is identical to their record from the last year. Now, let's do attendance real quick for our last bunch of games. So average attendance is for DC. They averaged 13,026 for this season, which is still second and still above the league average. So there's no argument here.

St. Louis, number one in attendance. D.C. number two in attendance. Memphis, we just talking about them. Unfortunately, they average only 3,992 in attendance. So Southern needs to. happened there. And, yeah, Michigan, Michigan gained attendance big time this year. It helps that you have a good team.

No question about it. It helps that you have a marketable player that succeeded in the NFL in the very same stadium that you play in. Michigan's average attendance, 11,681. not bad not bad and San Antonio despite only playing four games at home this year because remember they had the two games in St. Louis because of their scheduling they averaged 11,105 over the course of four games which is still pretty good still pretty good

and everyone unfortunately lost a little bit in attendance this year although Birmingham and St. Louis they have a chance to improve that this coming weekend with the championship games the only

a team that really improved attendance-wise was the Michigan Panthers so now we get to our rankings and we will start with number eight and last year I did this for I'm called for I used Suno.com I'm using Suno.com again for these songs at this time they gave me the option to remix everything and i did that just that so you will hear the remix version of each team's a song here so we will start of course with number eight the absolute worst team in the league for the twenty twenty five season in the heart of texas strong we gather as one underneath the blazing sun

Just begun Feel the ground shake feel the roar Promise charging to the core Standing tall never back away Right in our hearts every day Horns forward courage blend Famos promise till the end Our strength we carried through, San Antonio, we're with you.

Fight with all our might, every yard will claim tonight. Victory in our side. Vamos, Brahmus, fight, fight, fight. United through and through Yellow, black and fierce, it's true With every wind will cheer and scream San Antonio, the ultimate team Horns forward, courage blend

Famos bravest till the end Our strength we carry through San Antonio, we're with you. Hearts forward, courage blend, finals promise till the end. Our strength we carry through. San Antonio, we're with you. We're with you.

San Antonio, we're with you. Okay, so number eight, the San Antonio Brahma is the biggest disappointments of the 20-25 season. This team made it to the UFL championship last year. They finish this year with a win of one win and nine losses, which is not good. In fact, compared to last year, they are minus six in the wins column, so not good.

So, personnel-wise, I don't know. don't think they were good at quarterback this year that's clearly shows I think having to change coaches in the middle of the season probably doesn't help either so if you recall Wade Phillips I'm personally not a fan of but he's had success and he's an older gentleman at this point had to resign for health concerns concerns and I was like the new guy didn't do that well either but he's new this first his first time as a head coach so I would give him another year to get everything square away take this off season to improve the roster as best you

can and all and get coach gets yourself a coaching staff that better reflects your philosophy as a head coach and and honestly one less home game probably didn't help them out that much on there so so unfortunately number eight on our rankings the san antonio brahmas now on to number seven Game time is here, showtime our cheer. Fields ablaze, let's start the craze. Fans in a roar, see a score, Memphis Pride, we will not hide. Gold boats fight through day and night, strength and speed, we're in the lead.

Under the lights, no fear in sight. Champions rise with fire in our eyes. Roll boats fight through day and night. Strength and speed, we're in the lead. Yacht Club stands strong. Together we belong. Hearts in sync. Victory's on the brink.

so number seven finishing with two wins and eight losses both those wins in overtime actually so first overtime games of this league were played this year both involved the memphis showboats and the showboats won both of those games unfortunately they didn't win much of anything else this year so um so um so um yeah what's what to say what to say about these showboats their quarterback situation

clearly a mess so they got to get that squirt away they also had a coaching situations so Ken Wisenhunt

was originally supposed to be the coach this year he resigns uh no I'm sorry takes a leave of absence, Turner becomes the coach for a couple games,

Wizzing out and returns, and then he resigns for good. And Turner resumes. I don't know if this guy is going to be the answer, but I would probably give him another chance. You got to do something about the attendance. I mean, you're averaging less than $4,000 a game. That is not good. Not good.

And hearing from the Yacht Club members I interact with on social media, maybe this is the year that you fully sell the showboats to the FedEx guy. You move their operations to Memphis so they can be there year-round instead of taxing to him from Arlington. so that might be one way to get more people interested but yeah you got you also got do a better job in fielding a comparative team I don't think they did that this year they had done that the last two years yeah now now that said you know going into this league last season the talk was oh they're they're going to be a competitive team

these Memphis show boats second straight to a eight season yeah that's not going to help with that's certainly not going help with attendance and of course part of the attendance issues

they're doing renovations on the Liberty Bowl stadium so that doesn't help either but still gotta do better you gotta do better so number

seven, sorry Yacht Club, it is your Memphis showboats. Now on to number six. Gonna pound the ground, make it quick. Houston's on the rise, feel the sticks. In the heart of Texas, where the fire's high. Rough-necks ready, giving all we got.

Drill, baby, drill till the victory is ours. Ruther more show of my power In the stands they wore for the red and blue Houston's pride shining through Battles on the field, fight with might Every roughneck here under stadium lights Drill baby drill till the victory is ours Ruther Love show a lot power

Where the chance they wore for the red and blue Houston's pride shining through battles on the field fight with might Every rough neck here on the stadium lights Drill, baby, drill Till the victory is ours Rattlema Show on the power

Oh Protect the rig Protect the rig Protect the rig Protect the rig Protect the rig So protect the rig It is the Houston

Roughnecks did not have a great start to their season. Let's be perfectly honest, but did much better later in the season. Another team that needs to work on their attendance, and unfortunately this is something that I think the merger definitely did this fan base a huge disservice. 2020, XFL Roughnecks, we're 5'0 with a, June Jones as coach they did all right in the 23 again with Wade Phillips but then the merger

happens and we have a one and nine last year and five and five this year under C.J. Johnson so plus side plus four wins differential from last year so that's good that's showing improvements bad news Johnson's not the answer get yourself a new head coach Houston. I'm not, I'm definitely not suggesting getting Wade Phillips, because, you know, right, he had to step down for health reasons. And given his age, I probably wouldn't go for June Jones either, but go for someone like that, someone who's established in football and knows how to win. All right. Now, as for their situation, clearly they did start doing much bear when they started Jalen McClendon,

the quarterback. I think he's the answer for the quarterback. I don't know if moving the U of Houston was the right idea, but there you go. So let's hope for a better year out of Houston. So number six,

Houston rough next. And they're only six because five is the next team who happened to beat them this year. We'll roll through the shadows no fear in the night we fight with the spirit renegades in the light we're firing our veins we never back down on our things we're claiming the crown full frontal let's go

Raise health of the wind With the renegades, we'll do it again We're severing heartbeat We pushed to the line Our pounds are rivaled Our fakes intertwined Stand up to the law May no pride be known

Together is one This fire is a wrong Full throttle, let's go Raise hell from the wind With a renegades, we'll do it again Stand up to the more Let our pride be known Together is one

This fight is our own Full front, let's go Raise half of the wind We're the renegades We'll do it again We'll do it again We're the renegades We'll do it again

Are the Arlington Renegades of those wins was over Houston which is why despite being five of five Houston's six Arlington five so slight improvement over last year they finished 500 so there's that but you got to wonder how much more time Perez as a quarterback got to ask, do you bring Stoops back another year to coach these guys?

Because he's been the only coach this team's ever had. Is it time to move on? All sorts of questions I think will need to be addressed. Obviously, a solid team, better than last year's

team, granted with a bunch of the same guys. I don't know, but, uh, well, uh, but, uh, some questions for Arlington, no question, but next week after the, uh, championship games, uh, we will reveal, uh, four and three, but if you're asking right now, based on, uh, record alone, D.C. would be four at six and four. Michigan, also six and four would finish third. because they beat DC. Birmingham at seven and three would be two and St. Louis, eight and two would be number one. Now, let's get to our picks for the conference championships. I am at 27 and 13 this season on my picks,

which is 675 win percentage. That's pretty good. The first of two will be the USFL championship. Michigan Panthers at Birmingham Stallions. Played at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Alabama. On Sunday afternoon, 2 o'clock Central. I would think this week. be a good game lots of positives for both teams but let's be honest the

stallions own Michigan and I do like the stallions to win in front of their Jason Kelsey impersonators everyone takes their shirts off so so I like the stallions and I think it's gonna be a close game And then for the XFL conference championship, 5 o'clock on Sunday, at the Dome and America Center in beautiful St. Louis, Missouri. You have the D.C. defenders at 6 and 4 and the 8 and 2 St. Louis Battlehawks. Oddly enough, the Battlehawks only home loss this year was to these defenders. Granted, with Manny Wilkins at QB. Max Dugan has done a hell of a good job.

And Brandon Silvers did a pretty good job this past week, throwing the football and all that. So with all that mind, and we just beat these guys in the rain. I like this to be a close game. I'm going with the battlehawks to win the XFL championship and that is going to do it for our week 10 review and our preview the conference championship games in the UFL. Thanks for all your supports and thanks for your support with a call for as well. we'll be back next week for our

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