This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Season Week 8

Episode Date: May 15, 2025

Week 7 is in the books.  Week 8 is upon us.  Four teams are in great position to make the playoffs. Week 7 Results: DC 32, San Antonio 24 Michigan 25, Arlington 24 Birmingham 33, Houston 25 St. Louis 19, Memphis 9 Memphis and San Antonio have been eliminated from playoff contention. Week 8 Friday, May 16 - Memphis at San Antonio Saturday, May 17 - Michigan at Houston Saturday, May 17 - Birmingham at St. Louis Sunday, May 18 - Arlington at DC

Welcome, once again to the Unificial Fan Lounge, the Unificial UFLounge, the Unofficial UFL podcast, within the feed of this podcast is on call for. I'm Mike Chernevsky. I will be your host for this series. And, yeah, we're one week closer to the end of the UFO season 2025. So let's wrap up week seven. We'll start with the Friday night game. Defenders

32 Brahmas 24 playing in front of 9,84 in San Antonio DC improves to 5 and 2

San Antonio drops to 1 and 6 and are pretty much I think it's official at this point done for the year they will not make the playoffs the saturday game michigan 25 arlington 24 so very close game attendance was

9,963 at the arlington penitentiary panthers are now 5 and 2 and arlington is now 3 and four so they're not quite out of it just yet but it's not looking good for Arlington then our two

Sunday games Houston 25 Birmingham 33 not a good crowd today 4,774 in Birmingham And I should point out the Roughnecks actually led for much of this game, but found a way to choke near the end.

Houston, just what of advice if you're planning on improving as a team, you can't choke, especially against the three-time. the three times straight defending champions so yeah play better than that all right so uh houston three and four similar situation to arlington they're not in the playoffs yet but they still have a chance and uh birmingham is a five and two And then the last game, Battlehawks, 19, showboats, nine, played in Memphis in front of a crowd of 4,215. So the battlehawks improved to 5 and 2, and the showboats are 1 and 6, and the showboats are pretty much done for this year. And this year we can, this week rather, why did I say this year? But this week, we can announce the final average attendance for one team in the league. That would be Arlington.

So this was their last home game of the 2025 season. They averaged 9,764 over the quarter. of five games so not great certainly not at the 10-k level that I would like to see and they do have a 10-k attendance game this year that's everyone has a 10-k attendance game minimum with two exceptions I think you know which two they are by now if have been given up with the league. So not great, but not terrible. I would say for the 9,000 range.

So the next teams to, they'll play their last home games. We'll have to wait until week nine. But let's go into week eight. And we start with the Friday night game, which is an interesting matchup now but

it is what it is it is our two one and six teams the showboats and the Brahmus playing each other and someone has to win that game both teams going in one and six Friday night in San Antonio

and someone has to win that game right so someone will walk out two and six and someone will walk out out's 1 and 7. So we'll see what happens, but just given the quality of their

games this year, I'm going to slightly lean towards Memphis. And we got two Saturday games, both starting at 12 noon, and both with major

playoff implications. So the first of these two is Michigan at Houston Michigan coming in 5 and 2 Houston at

3 and 4 so this will have a major impact on the playoff picture as well the other game the other game is Birmingham at St. Louis all right

I am picking the Panthers to beat Houston and I think we get some revenge here Battle Hogg Nation I think we

I think the stallions have proven there not the same team that we saw last year that finished 9 and 1 and won the league

I think we have a chance at this game but we got to play bear on offense and the defense needs to keep stepping up. Let's be honest

the defense has been critical for the battlehawks this year and I don't see that being any difference last year we played in Birmingham. This year it's at the dome field advantage

I like my hawks and then Sunday game is Ray Gates at D.C. So play in front of the bear snake and I like the defenders to win that one and

and just so I know I was perfect in my picks last week and I will and I will let's share that math with you

probably a couple weeks at at the end of the season for now if those are my picks for week 8th at the UFL season. I'm really excited to see how everything goes.

At least one team is going to have six once at this time next week. Until then, I will talk to you soon and good luck to all the teams this week. Thank you.