This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Season Week 2

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Week 1 is in the book!  On to Week 2! Week 1 Results: St. Louis 31, Houston 6 Arlington 33, San Antonio 9 Michigan 26, Memphis 12 DC 18, Birmingham 11 Week 2 Friday, April 4 - Birmingham at Michigan Saturday, April 5 - Memphis at DC Sunday, April 6 - Houston at Arlington Sunday, April 6 - San Antonio at St. Louis

Welcome to the Unofficial Fan Lounge. Your unofficial home of all things, UFL, hosted by this podcast, is Uncalled for. My name is Mike Chernevsky, and let's review week one of the United Football League 2025 season. So we will start with the Friday night game, St. Louis at Houston. Battlehawks 31 Roughnecks 6 I did watch this game and oh boy

yeah it was all Battlehawks all day long attendance was 7,124 at the University of Houston I'll be on nights when

you had a bunch of rain in the area you have the Astros home opener and the University of Houston themselves in the tournament so but it was all badhawks all day long Houston looked just

terrible they managed to score near the end of the game but overall just terrible battlehawks to heck of a job writing the football sailors

first touchdown of the new year Wilkins rushed for a couple himself there was a there was a a lea record

set in this game of 74 yards for a touchdown run that was broken the next day by three yards but but so

good job out of the Bile Hawks Houston you have a problem and I think it does come down to coaching for them let's not forget

that this version of the roughnecks was the USFL gamblers all right they just took on the XFL

name not remembering that the XFL version of the Roughnecks was really darn good all right we're talking about 5 and 0 in the 2020 when the pandemic happened and they're pretty good in 23 as well so yeah moving on the Saturday game San Antonio at Arlington this one went to Renegades 33, Brahma's 9 and good job

at the renegades attendance was 10,114 so that's pretty good and way to start the season if you're Arlington, if you're San Antonio I still expect

them to be a good team but come on In our two Sunday games, Michigan and Memphis, in front of a crowd of 4,373, lower than any crowds from last year, by the way, and this is Memphis. We're talking about it, they were hardly world beaters attendance-wise last year. In fact, we're dead last in the league in attendance, but not this. bad. Still a closer game.

But finished Panthers 26, showboats 12. So good job out of Michigan. Still sneaky good. Memphis, I would say, have improved. We'll see over the coming days. The last game of week one was Birmingham at D.C. And from a crowd of 12,254.

So D.C. winning the week in terms of attendance. And the game, Defenders 18, Stallions 11. I did see a little bit of this game. I saw the go-head score for D.C. turned out. Ta'amo to Roland for the touchdown.

And the bear snake in full effect. So they are not invincible those stallions. We'll see what happens

with the rest of the season, of course. So after one week, we have a three-way tie for first in the XFL conference with St. Louis Arlington and D.C.

all 1 and 0. San Luis and Arlington would win on point differential. And San Antonio is in 4th. In the USFL conference, Michigan. 1 and O. Birmingham, Houston, and Memphis,

all 0 in 1, but Birmingham are declared favorites in point differential minus seven so let's look for the week two but before we do I do want address the labor issue that could affect this week I don't think it will but it could I'll just put that proviso out there look football is physical sports and these guys will get hurt and and it would behoove of the league to look into

a into year-round health insurance for these guys you know make make sure you know that they can function outside of this season if they get hurts and everything and is and yeah is a very physical sports. People are going to get hurt. So it's the league's job as employers to look out for their employees. So let's get this done at the very least, get them their insurance. But yeah, let's look forward to week two of the UFL. We'll start with the Friday night game on April 4th.

7 p.m. Central Birmingham at Michigan. So this is a panther's home opener at Ford Field. Also the home of the Detroit Lions. This one's going to be

tough. I'm two and two from last week's from the week one picks, by the way. And we'll probably wind up being two and two again because I am I'm going to pick

Michigan to beat Birmingham this week but not by much not by much I think this will be a very close game with a sight edge to Michigan ever so slight

because I mean I come Birmingham came into this season pretty much unstoppable and yet DC found a way to stop them so yeah Panthers by

hair Saturday this is a Saturday evening game Memphis at D.C. So we'll see another round of the beer snake and I think this is also going to be a close game because

at DC and Memphis played close games this week and I will give the slight edge

to the defenders over the showboats I don't get me wrong I think Memphis has improved this off season

but have they shown enough to to warrant me picking them Right now, probably not. Again, I wasn't expecting the D.C. to pull the upset

over Birmingham, so I will go DC. Sunday games, Sunday at 11. We have the I-45 matchup, Houston at Arlington, at the prison of Arlington.

Given, when I saw with the roughnecks it's going to be impossible for me to pick them. I write out even though this was their one win last year against Arlington. I think Arlington

is a well obviously they're going in with a win and they're going in hopefully a little more focus this year not nearly a snake been in

as they were last year where the rough necks I'm sorry they just stink right now so rain gates

that's my pick for that one and the Sunday nighter 530 is St. Louis in San Antonio at the

dome in St. Louis as remember, the Battlehawks get six home games this year the Brahmers

only get four that's because San Antonio has to play in St. Louis twice for scheduling reasons

if you're a fan of the other sports you know that San Antonio is the site for the final four and

that we played at the Alamo Dome. So as a result, the Brahmus have to come to St. Louis twice, and this is the first go-around. I am definitely not picking the...

I think this will be a close game because Ballahawk Brahma games have been pretty close. But I will go with Battle Hawks. A, it's my team, and B,

based on the butt- kicking they administered on Houston coupled with San Antonio get in their butts kicked I expect to I'm picking the ballhawks to win this one and it will be a close one so that is it for week my petition for week two of the united football the season we might get a team profile in this week we shall see but y'all take care let's enjoy some football let's get this labor disputes we're done with and we will talk again soon Thank you.

Thank you.