This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Season Week 1

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Welcome to our new series, Unofficial Fan Lounge!  This is an unofficial podcast of the United Football League (UFL). Throughout the 2025 UFL season, we will be previewing each week's games and giving our picks. Week 1 Friday, March 28 - St. Louis at Houston Saturday, March 29 - San Antonio at Arlington Sunday, March 30 - Michigan at Memphis Sunday, March 30 - Birmingham at DC

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So this podcast is about the United Football League. Play is about to start this weekend. March 28. And, yeah, let's get started. So we're just going to pick games in this episode for week one of the season. And we'll do this every week during the duration of the season. And I also want to do team profiles on each of the eight teams. And I understand that there will be the possibility of expansion coming up.

and if expansion teams are announced, we'll do team profiles on them. But for now, let's get to week one of the 2025 UFL season. We start Friday night, 7 p.m., local time, I guess. this will be the St. Louis Battlehawks at the Houston Roughnecks

This is a game that's going to be played at the University of Houston Stadium Last year the Roughnecks played at Rice University's Stadium So they'll be moving

just a few meter A few miles To the east of where they were. The Roughnecks played at the University of Houston during the XFL years. And this is a homecoming of sorts.

Houston was 1 in 9 last year in the first year of the UFL. That's pretty bad. Worst team in the league. despite that they kept their coaches and overhauled their rosters quite a bit. We'll see how that goes. On the flip side, you have the Battlehawks seven and three last year, made the playoffs

lost in the XFL Conference Championship. But I have a good feeling this year in case it's not obvious yet I am a St. Louis Battlehawks fan and I am

at least for this game I'm not going to go the entire season but at least for this game I'm going to pick the Battle Hawks to win not comfortable given a score predictions but I think they're going to win I think there's

I think even even though they're going to be looking at Wilkins and Dugan at quarterback I think there's playing talents on the Balhawk roster that that will

sort out itself and Houston like the worst team in the league last year I don't expect to get that much better this year but prove me wrong that's why we play the game right so so game number one battle hawks

game number two will be Saturday night Saturday afternoon rather at 3 p.m. The San Antonio Brahma's and the Arlington renegades and we played at the prison of Arlington I'm sorry if you don't want me making that

joke don't build a ballpark that looks more like a maximum security pension entry than does a ballpark San Antonio was 7-3 last year and played in the UFL championship

getting shut out in the UFL championship so there's nothing to sneeze at Arlington 3 and 7 last year quite

I would say snake-bidden especially early in the season they didn't do too well but I think San Antonio's returned much

of the same team they did last year there is a change of quarterback Mund is the new QB for San Antonio

Perez continues to be the QB for Arlington I I'm expected a close one

with this one but I will give a slight edge to San Antonio similarly because of how well they did last year

so so Brahmus in that game then we have two Sunday games the first one 11 a.m. Michigan Panthers at Memphis showboats

Michigan was 7 and 3 last year a very sneaky seven and three nobody really expect them to do as well as they did and Memphis was two and eight and by the way both of those wins were against

Houston that's how bad they were the showboats they just lost their coach Ken Wisenhuntz who was just fired to this offseason to turn the team around but

one week before the season he was started he steps down citing personal reasons and so they will be gone in with a new coach and knew everything they got E.J. Perry who was with

Michigan last year as one of their corebacks I expect him to be the starter for the showboats and hopefully they address their offensive line because that was a big weakness for them last year Michigan again sneaky good

team last year solid defense they'll have to do it without Jake Bates kicking because he graduated to the NFL and it's being played in Memphis now Memphis did lag behind the rest of the league attendance wise last year

average just over 6,000 a game but my understanding is that over this obviously the league really made an effort to do community outreach and get the word out

about this team in Memphis so hopefully that's hopefully that pays off and there are more people in the Yacht Club as I like to call themselves but

again I'm going to pick Michigan to win this game I'm not sure I expect the show boats to improve this year but I'm not going to put

a lot of faith into that until they show me something so Michigan to win that game and then last game of the day 2 p.m.

on Sunday the defending champion Birmingham of Stallions at DC Defenders so right off the bat we got the Bear Snake going D.C.

also had a coaching change this past week. Barlow took the head coach's job at Tennessee States which was vacated by

Eddie George the star rang back back in the day for the most notably the Tennessee Titans and

yeah they'll have to make do with a new coach of course Birmingham they must be doing something right because three titles in a row the two USFL tiles and now a UFO

title so they must be doing something right they bring in back all mostly key players except for Martinez he got his shot in the NFL with the Jets

so it'll be interesting to see how how they do and if they can for Pete I'm I personally hope they don't but like I said for years and years

when the Patriots were good you got to pick them until they prove otherwise so I will pick Birmingham to win this game and disappoints a bunch of beer snake holding guys

so so they have basically all the road teams I have winning this week so St. Louis over Houston, San Antonio, over Arlington, Michigan, over Memphis, and Birmingham,

over D.C. And that will do it for week one of the United Football League season. We will be back each week. Updain, sharing my thoughts on how the previous week went and giving my picks for

the upcoming week and we'll see about doing team profiles as well these will come out every Thursday during the ufl season so i keep an eye out for that and they will stay on the uncalled for rs.s. feed until i feel we've gotten to a point that it can have its own feed but for now They'll be here with Uncall For. And speaking of Uncall For, please continue to support this podcast is Uncalled For. We have over 100 episodes already, and we're in the last days of producing season 9 of the podcast. So thank you, and we will talk to you next week. Thank you.