***2025 UFL Season Thread***

[theshadow]

The 2025 UFL season kicks off Friday, March 28 with St. Louis at Houston, 7 p.m. CT on FOX.

FOX will have a Friday night game each week. Other regular-season games will be split among FS1, ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2.

Active rosters are limited to 50 players. Here are the Cyclones on active rosters to start the season:

TEAM	PLAYER	#	POS
Birmingham	La'Michael Pettway	80	TE
St. Louis	Mike Rose	27	LB
St. Louis	Willie Harvey	51	LB
St. Louis	Chase Allen	87	TE
St. Louis	Hakeem Butler	88	WR

Also, Anthony Becht (HC) and Seneca Wallace (QB) are on the St. Louis staff and Marc Lillibridge is the GM for San Antonio.

 

[theshadow]

St. Louis opens the season with a 31-6 win over Houston, and it could have been worse. ~300 yard advantage in total offense, +2 turnover margin, and ~275 rush yards.

Chase Allen - 1 catch, 5 yards
Hakeem Butler - 1 target
Mike Rose - 2 tackles
Willie Harvey - 1 tackle

Most of STL's passes were swings, screens, and underneath routes. Basically nothing downfield.

 

[theshadow]

Birmingham (Pettway) plays at D.C., Sunday at 2:00 CT on ESPN.

 

[theshadow]

Birmingham dropped their opener to D.C., 18-11. OL gave up 8 sacks.

Pettway with 1 catch for 12 yards.

Not a big stats weekend for any of the former Cyclones.


UFL Cyclones, Week 2
Friday, 4/4, 7:00 (FOX) - Birmingham at Michigan
Sunday, 4/6, 5:30 (FS1) - San Antonio at St. Louis

 

[theshadow]

Pettway on IR after just 1 game.

That leaves just the St. Louis contingent of Cyclones.

 

[theshadow]

Butler inactive (hamstring) for tonight's game vs San Antonio.

 

[Die4Cy]

Seneca yelling at his wide receivers in the locker room at halftime

 

[theshadow]

St. Louis moves to 2-0 with a 26-9 win over San Antonio.

Harvey - 4 tackles (3 solo)
Rose - 4 tackles (2 solo)
Allen - 1 special teams tackle
Butler - inactive

 

[theshadow]

Butler inactive again for today's game against D.C. (2:00, ABC), but "trending upwards."

 

[theshadow]

St. Louis drops a 27-15 decision to D.C. 4 turnovers (3 INT) were killer. STL now 2-1.

Rose - 4 tackles (1 TFL)
Harvey - 4 tackles (2 TFL)
Allen - 1 catch, 6 yds
Butler - inactive (hamstring)

 

[JM4CY]

I totally missed that Chase was playing for StL. That’s cool.

 

[theshadow]

St. Louis (2-1) at Arlington (2-1)
Saturday, April 19
11:30 a.m. CT | ABC

Butler inactive (hamstring) for the third consecutive week.

 

[Clonehomer]

Now that I’m getting to know the teams better, the UFL is really growing on me. Certainly more of a CFB level feel than the NFL as the talent level is a step down. But it’s entertaining at least. We’ll see how it holds my interest now that the NBA and NHL playoffs get started.

 

[DGC]

big game for St Louis today, as they are tied with Arlington. with Arlington having the tie breaker at the moment. A W today would give the Battlehawks a 1 game lead plus move the tie breaker back in their favor for the time being. KA KAW!!!!

 

[DGC]

Well that couldn't have gone any worse.

 

[Die4Cy]

Is Fox pumping crowd noise into the broadcasts this year? It sounds like Mike Tysons Punchout on NES.

 

[DGC]

Willie Harvey w/ a pick six followed by sideline interview w/ Harvey and Rose.

 

[theshadow]

 

[theshadow]

100-yard pick-six for Arlington in the final minute to seal the win.

 

[shadow]

Hakeem Butler still hurt which has been a big difference the last 2 weeks for STL.