This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Season Week 7

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

The playoffs are in sight.  In addition to looking forward to Week 7, we look at how the teams' fan bases rank (at least how Mike sees it). Week 6 Results: St. Louis 12, Arlington 6 Houston 21, Memphis 20 Michigan 38, DC 14 Birmingham 26, San Antonio 3 Week 7 Friday, May 9 - DC at San Antonio Saturday, May 10 - Michigan at Arlington Sunday, May 11 - Houston at Birmingham Sunday, May 11 - St. Louis at Memphis

And welcome to the un-official to the unofficial fan. lounge we're talking week six into week seven of the 2025 ufl season i'm mike chernepsy i'll be your host for this uh many podcast with them podcast and uh let's get prides to it so week six is now in the books and uh the standings are looking quite interesting so let's go over the games. We start with the Friday night game. St. Louis 12, Arlington 6, played in front of 26,684 at the dome, which is low for Ballahawk game standards, but understandable when you consider that the Blues were playing a playoff game just down the streets and the Cardinals

are playing the same night. So, yeah, plenty of options, and that's going to remind you then, unfortunately. But good job out of the Bauhawks. We improved to 4 and 2. Arlington

drops to 3 and 3. Next up the Saturday game, Memphis at Houston. Roughnecks 21, showboats 20. Attendance was 4,134. The showboats

fall to 1 in 5, whereas the roughnecks are in the playoff discussion. They're now at 3 and 3. So good job out of the roughnecks. Hopefully this translates to more people coming to games.

but we shall see and then our Sunday games we start with DC and Michigan playing from 11,653 in Detroit Panthers 38 defenders 14 good job

out of the Panthers both teams are now 4 and 2 and lastly the UFL championship rematch San Antonio

Birmingham and 9,627 Birmingham fans stallions win 26 to 3 over the

Brahmas Birmingham is now 4 and 2 and San Antonio 1 and 5 so four more weeks to go

the playoff picture looks like this you have four teams at four and two in each conference so in the XFL conference DC gets the nod over the bowhawks

because head to head same thing in the USFL conference Birmingham as the nod over Michigan got all four of those teams are currently four and two. Arlington and Houston are both three and three

so they're still in it. And once again, good job of Houston for slowly and unsuspectingly turning things around making themselves a little more competitive. I don't know what's happens

with San Antonio, but they have clearly digressed in the past year and who knows what's going on with Memphis but I think it's fair to say both those teams are pretty much done for the year and before we get into our picks for week seven I do want to address how would I rank the fan bases of the United Football League because this was a legitimate Reddit post

and credge to at least skin the question out but it's no need to argue with me about how I came to this decision but here are my ratings of the fan bases

within the United Football League. No more of course, St. Louis. We consistently lead the league in attendance and it ain't even close we have our the NFL hates us F stand cronky chance and attitude and and clearly we can take slaps as well as anyone so yeah on the subject of slapping yeah Naku one-game suspension and community

service for his slap so yeah number two fan base is DC I mean how could it not be they also do pretty well selling out there they're of course playing a smaller venue than everyone else and of course the beer snake best tradition in the league so they got to be up there and number three is going to be Birmingham granted they're not drawing as well as the should be in three time three times straight champions of either the UFO or the USFL but yeah give it to them for their shirtless annex I know I constantly compare them with Jason Kelsey taking his shirt off turn that

Chiefs, uh, Bill's game. Uh, there are tons of examples of, uh, shirtless fans, uh, Newcastle United comes in mind. There's a, um, British, uh, comedian named Floyd Griffith, who used to do reactions as each of the different teams in the Premier League, and, uh, whenever he did Newcastle, he always did it shirtless and they would always, uh, censor him, even though there was, really no d to but uh that's the thing that birmingham uh had embraced and good for them uh number four is santonio um i do get them a lot of credit for uh embracing to the uh mexican latino heritage in that part texas

you know that's uh but i can't put you top three no because you're not doing cool stuff like the other three are i'll put uh michigan in five they're they're growing at least um again winning helps and uh having a noble face from your team playing in the NFL helps too Arlington, I would put six at the prison does them no favors, I don't think. And seven and eight have to be Memphis in Houston, unfortunately. And I would put, even though they struggle attendance-wise, would really struggle attendance-wise, I put Memphis at seven because they have their yacht club. That's fairly well-defined in Houston, unfortunately, I have to put at eight.

All right. Let's pick games. Week 7 of the UFO season. We start with the Friday night game. D.C. at San Antonio. I will go D.C. to win this one. because let's be honest the way the Brahmus I played this year I'd be surprised if they got another win so I'll go DC the Saturday game is Michigan at

Arlington so they'll be playing in the Arlington Pententry it's gonna be a close one but I will go with the Panthers to win this one then the two Sunday games we have Houston at Birmingham and Houston might be on a run but come on this is Birmingham we're talking about so I will go with the stallions to win and we have Bell Hawks at Memphis I can Certainly see a bump in attendance from Balhawk fans. I mean, St. Louis is just down the Mississippi from Memphis. And I've seen in Balhawk online groups that some are the damn making the trek to Memphis as this.

But either way, this should be an easy one. win for St. Louis. That said, I wouldn't exactly sleep on the showboats because they have played a lot of very close games this year. So those are my picks for week seven of the

United Football League season, and I'll do it for this edition of the ultimate fan. The unofficial fan labs. Why did it keep in those two words of mixed up ultimate

and unofficial, but it is the unofficial band-lounds. Uncalled for, we'll be back next week with a new episode, and so I'll look out for that.

Until then, we will talk soon, and good luck to other teams as this week. Thank you.