This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2025 Session Week 10

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

Week 9 is in the books.  The season is almost over.  We also talk about potential expansion and relocation rumors. Week 9 Results: St. Louis 39, San Antonio 13 Birmingham 26, Michigan 22 Arlington 30, Memphis 12 Houston 24, DC 21 Week 10 Friday, May 30 - St. Louis at DC Saturday, May 31 - Houston at Michigan Sunday, June 1 - Arlington at San Antonio Sunday, June 1 - Birmingham at Memphis

And welcome once again to the unofficial fan lounge. UFL hosted by this podcast is Uncalled For. I'm Mike Chironer Ski. I'll be your host for this and for Uncalled for as well.

We have a new Uncalled For coming out this Friday. So we've got to look out for that. But let's talk week nine now of the United Football League. We have one more week of regular season and then

playoffs. And yeah we go from there so let's go over those scores so starting with the Friday night game played at the dome even though it's billed as a

home game for San Antonio St. Louis 39 San Antonio 13 attendance was 27,800 890. Remember the Brahmus played the Balhawks, both games in St. Louis this year. Balhawks are 7 and 2, and the Brahmas are 1 and 8.

Our Saturday games, Michigan at Birmingham, the preview to the USFL Conference Championship. Panthers, 22, Stallions, 26. Crowd was 10,0344, and both teams are 6 and 3. Also on Saturday, with a massive rain delay, Arlington 30, Memphis 12, in front of 2044. that is pretty bad pretty bad but yeah I've seen worse at different sports events so Arlington is now 4 and 5 Memphis 2 and 7 and then the Sunday game DC at Houston played in front of 6,684 fans Defenders 21 roughnecks 24 so huge upsets there even though the playoffs are already locked up

DC falls to 6 and 3 and Houston is now 4 and 5 and we have some teams have now completed their the home portion of their schedules so we already did Arlington back in week seven Birmingham we'll finish with an average 8,794 fans a game including to where the tens was over 10,000 so they've they've dipped quite a bit this year but still if you can bring a 10k to your stadium then even for one game that's pretty impressive in my book Houston 5,712 um and with thea roughnecks you need to fire your head coach bringing someone who knows how to build a winning organization and get out and try to get some of our players.

Yeah, as, yeah, the roughnecks had no problems drawing in the XFL, but remember the circumstances of these roughnecks came to be. They were the original gamblers in the USFL, who were the lesser of the two teams, I will point out, and they kept the gambler's roster up. and it's clearly not up to snuff and certainly not to snuff compared to what they were used to with the roughnecks

and this is the consequence that people stopped showing up and the football is not good although it is better than last year all right last year they only had one win so but still let's get a new head coach in in Houston and St. Louis

was in the regular season averaging 29,537. 37, which is not bad but could obviously be better. And that's, of course, over course of six home games

this year. So yeah, not bad And we have One more week to go But before we get in the Picks for this week Some newsworthy Stuff came across

Our feeds This week regarding the league And that's Expansion and Relocation Rumors Now I am on the record Saying I am not a fan of relocation especially because well that's how

Battlehawks fans became a thing was needless relocation but here's basically what we are learning so the league is reportedly unhappy with Fanternats

in Birmingham and Houston with Memphis being on its own island with its ties to FedEx owner red smith so uh well yeah birmingham's uh numbers could be better no question about it but uh i don't know i'm not in birmingham so i don't know what's going on anything but they those numbers could be better same with arlington houston absolutely could be better i told you how all right get a new head coach and uh get some yeah get someone who

knows how to run the football team. You know, clearly, clearly, C.J. Johnson doesn't always do anything. So, yeah, address the coaching situation and vastly improve during this off season. Although they have shown improvement this year, I think part of it was starting McClendon

at quarterback. That might be the way to start. But the league has originally filed for four new trademarks, all of them from the old USFL. The Oakland Invaders, they were not a team that was in USFL 2.0, but they were in the original USFL. But it's interesting because we've heard this whole time,

the league was not interested in doing anything in California because of tax reasons. And also Oakland, there's a reason the Raiders and the A's now left Oakland, and it's because the Coliseum. I have heard horror stories about that place. So that's an interesting one to me. So where would this team play if they do wind up going back? The Philadelphia Stars. Okay, another historic USFL team with a couple championships were part of

USFL 2.0 before they were folded because they were one of those teams that never played in their home city. So that's an interesting possibility. Where would they play? Would they play at the Philadelphia Union Stadium? I think Lincoln Financial is probably too big for them. I think they have options in Philadelphia.

Then the Tampa Bay Bandits who were part of the first year of the USFL 2.0 and were dumped in favor of the showboats, oddly enough. And there's a name, a specific name associated with a possible Tampa Bay team.

We'll get to that in a sec. And the other team they filed a train mar for was the New Jersey Generals. Again, never played in their home state, in their home city

during the USFL 2.0. USFL 1.0 this is probably the one team I would not bring back because of its association with what happened with the first USFL look it up

spoiler involves a certain person who is now running the United States into the ground and where would they use the Red Bull Arena

where Red Bull play or I don't seem MetLife being the possibility for them because it's too large but we'll see what happens there and then on the expansion front

the two teams we've consistently heard all into the season for expansion were Seattle and Columbus Columbus would have to be a whole new team or something I've heard they procured

the name Bulldogs which harkens back to the old NFL days, like back in the 20s, and so that would be really cool. And then Seattle, we're talking about the return of

Dragor. Yeah, Sea Dragons fans, if you don't like me, characterizing you guys as Troggdor, come up with a logo that doesn't look like Strongbett, drawing S, draw more different S, and he has lots of consummate fees.

I said consummate fees consummate and realistically Seattle would be the last XFL 2.0 team you could reasonably

bring back. I'm not sure you could bring the Vipers back because of how horrible they were. You could bring the guardians back but they were also horrible. We'll see. We'll see what happened. And then if four new teams are added to the UFL in 26,

the likelihood is that the roughnecks and showboats would be relocated, according to Mike Mitchell. Now, what's this about Tampa and ownership we're talking about? Well, with Memphis, say, all I said it was because it would have the backing of the FedEx guy. But with Tampa, with Tampa now, the report is a certain someone would be interested

in purchase into the UFL team for Tampa and that person is one Tom Brady yep he of seven Super Bowl champions all six for New England

plus his last one with Tampa Bay I are a part owner of the Raiders and a part owner of Birmingham City

football club for those of you who know English football the same Burma City that us Villa fans were singing about shit's on the city

shit's on the city tonight so the report for Brady is that yeah, seven-time Pro Bowl champ on Brady is interested in a UFC Club R.A.

partner of the Las Vegas Raiders also lives in the Tampa Bay area. UFL recently filed for the Tampa Bay Bandit's trademark and Brady, of course, also now

a contributor with the NFL on Fox. which, again, Fox is a part owner of the United Football League. And the first game that Tom Brady called was last year's UFL championship. Which I think it's safe to say we're not going to see a repeat of that because the problem is stink this year. But we could see Birmingham.

absolutely and that will now bring us to our week 10 picks so we'll start with the frightening night game which is battle hawks at defenders and last time in front of the bear snake and I like us to get some revenge and beat the defenders on their home turf and this is of course a preview of the XFL championship the following weekend we have one Saturday game it is Houston at Michigan I like the panthers to win this one but clearly we shouldn't count out Houston we will keep it out of that one but I'm picking the Panthers Rangades, Brahmus is Sunday morning.

I like the Rangades to them when this one. And then the last game of the regular season is Birmingham at Memphis. And even though the showboats did pull off an overtime victory over the stallions, I don't think we'll see it repeats performance of that. I like the stallions to win this one. So good luck to everyone this week. I'm notary we have a new uncalled for coming out later this week as well. And we will be back next week.

a little preview the conference championships and we will start our power rankings for the 2025 UFO season starting with the

four teams that did not make the playoffs. So, thank you for a listen and we will talk soon. You know, I'm going to be. You know,