This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Unofficial Fan Lounge - UFL 2026 Week 3

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Welcome to Week 3!  Sorry for the delay (stupid TUESDAY night game).  Let's review Week 2 and preview Week 3. Week 2: DC 44, Columbus 26 Orlando 19, Louisville 9 Houston 22, Birmingham 20 Dallas 31, St. Louis 15 Week 3: Friday, April 10 - Orlando at Louisville Saturday, April 11 - Houston at DC Sunday, April 12 - Columbus at Dallas; Birmingham at St. Louis

And welcome once again to the unofficial fan lounge. This is following week two of the 26 United Football League season. Sorry, we're a little late this week. I think you know why there was a Thursday night game. Why are we playing football on Tuesday nights? Even the NFL and college don't play on Tuesday nights. But anyway, I'm Mike Chern, FSI. I'm the host of the Unifference.

official fan lounge within the feed of this podcast is uncalled for and you know it's just gets rights to the review of week two of the UFL season we start with the Friday nighter

DC 44 Columbus 26 and this was played in front of a pretty good crowd in in the in the Columbus so for their first home game too bad they couldn't get the win then again they were

playing the defending champions so attendance was 14,810 which is pretty good so good job of Columbus for a show-up and showing outs unfortunately the team did not do Likewise, so team leaders for this game started with Columbus, Janlon McClendon led in both passing and rushing, 156 yards,

one interception, two touchdowns for passing and for rushing, eight attempts, 55 yards and a touchdown. Tay Martin led in receiving six catches for 56 yards and a touchdown.

For DC, Jordan Tehamu, 99 yards, one touchdown, one interception. Dionne Jackson, 11 Russian attempts, 97 yards, three touchdowns. So good job about him. And Cornell Powell led the team and receiving him with four catches for 41 yards. And I guess now is a good time to point out. I guess so. One of the big fans of the aviators is one,

A.J. Hawk, who is a fucking menace to society. Drives the two feet, sleeps at the wheel, drives golf carts into lakes. Anyway, before we get to the next thing, in DC now 101, Columbus, O.N. 2. The next game, Louisville at Orlando. it'll be Storm 19 Kings 9 and we got to do something about

the attendance after that Columbus game because attendance for this one 8,585 which is a March drop from week one unfortunately all right our our team leaders

starting with Orlando Jack Plummer leading the team in passing 182 yards, two DDs, one interception. Rushing is Jashon Corbin, 19 attempts for 51 yards. And receiving leader is K.J. Hamler, two catches for 59 yards and a touchdown. For Louisville, Chandler Rogers, leading the team in passing and rushing. 152 yards, but one pick and one Russian 10 for 12 yards.

Trey McKitty leads the Kings and catches with two catches for 39 yards. Orlando, 2-0 and Lowell O and 2. So, yeah, of the three new team, Orlando's color the best of the three. Columbus and Louisville, well, they've got some work to do. And then our next game, Birmingham at Houston,

with Ludacris as our halftime entertainments. Apparently there's some pre-game entertainments, too, when the stallions came on the field, they were created with the Milel Pony theme. which makes me think the gamblers staff must be bronies. We know a thing too about bronies on Uncalled for

with Chris Hertz being a massive brony in his own right. Anyway, here's your upsets of the week. Gamblers 22, Stallions 20. Both teams are now one-in-one, and here are our stat leaders. so for Houston, passing is Nolan Henderson, 186 yards. Jalen White led the gamblers in rushing with 26 attempts for 82 yards in touch hand.

And John Trey Kirkland led the team in the receptions with five catches for 85 yards. On the Birmingham side of things, Matt Corral, 226 yards, two TTs, but has a two picks. That's part of why they lost. Anthony McFarland Jr. led the team in rushing with seven attempts, 37 yards. 37! And a touch-in.

And Justin Ross, five catches for 70 yards. Attendance for this one, I understand this was a later night on Easter Sunday, but and the game was on half on that

work so the the viewership might slump a little bit but 7,744 for the gambler's home opener

and they may have been raining in the for a I don't know but we got to do a better job Houston and speaking of teams that need to do a better job with attendance

the Tuesday night game I know I never want to hear that, I never want to hear myself say those words again, Tuesday night football in that order. Football did not belong on Tuesdays, but I digress. We had a Tuesday night game, St. Louis at Dallas. This is one unfortunately we did lose. The final score, Dallas 31, St. Louis 15. Attendance for this game, and you could clearly tell that half the stadium was blocked off and tarped off everything. 5,799.

You got to do better than that, Stalis. Got to do better than that attendance-wise, but I will be honest. I was only slightly surprised by this because the renegades have given us a hard time in

throughout our history together. So, here are our stats leaders starting with the Rangades Austin Reed

240 yards passing 4 TDs one pick rushing is a day day hunter 10 rushes for 67 yards and receiving

is Tyler Vaughn's 11 catches 146 yards three touchdowns and I'll say this again battlehawk's defense we gotta do better against that pass man and on the flip side we got to do a better job catching the football

too so here are the battlehawk leaders for a week to Brandon Silvers 106 yards one TD but two interceptions gotta work on that he also leads the league in the it leads the team in rushing

with three attempts for 16 yards And Hakeem Butler, welcome back after taking last week off. Four catches for 56 yards. So plenty of improvement to do. Dallas is now 2 and O and the Ballyhawks 1 and 1. So here are the standings going into week three. So Dallas and Orlando are undefeated at 2 and 0 apiece. Then you have four teams at 1-1, D.C., Birmingham, St. Louis, and Houston.

Then Louisville and Columbus are both O and 2. So let's get to week three. We'll start with the Friday nighter, Orlando at Louisville. Oh, so Orlando is playing in a littleville two weeks in a row. Yeah, I go see this. this year that some teams are going to play each other two weeks in a row. And this is

an example of that, so this is at Louisville and they did a good job showing up that first game in a much in a smaller stadium than it. Can we expect more of the same?

Or does Louisville finally get a win here? We shall see, but just to be safe, I'm picking in Orlando to win. Then Saturday afternoon, we have Houston at D.C. So Defenders, home opener.

And they have Waleigh as their halftime entertainment. So another rap guy. So the Beer Snake, welcome back. And I do like DC to win this one. And then

then Sunday afternoon we start with Columbus at Dallas I'm picking the Renegades and win go 3 and 0 they're just too good man it's just a good 67 points fielded versus 32 aloud they're just they're legit man so and I certainly don't see Columbus beating them so I will, in fact, go with the Rangades. And then Sunday afternoon is Birmingham at St. Louis.

Welcome home, A.J. McCarran. But, yeah, I want us to get back on the winning track. So Battlehawks in a close one. All right. Battlehawks in a close one. And that will do it for this rather late, a rather abbreviated version of official fan lounge. And we will see you next time. Good luck to all the teams this week.