On Saturday, the Birmingham Stallions looked – well – awful in the first quarter, looked better in the second quarter, and then scored 28 unanswered points to pull off a comeback and win the USFL Conference, sending themselves to the first-ever UFL Championship Game this coming Sunday.
Could the St. Louis Battlehawks, at home and backs against the wall after a similar bad start against San Antonio on Sunday night, pull off the same feat?
They could not.
Unfortunately for St. Louis and their fans, their season is somewhat shockingly over, courtesy of a scrappy group of San Antonio Brahmas, who came out and punched the Battlehawks in the mouth. San Antonio got a bit of an unexpected start from previously-injured quarterback Chase Garbers, who threw a red-zone pick on their first possession, but overcame it, scored first and then held on late for a 25-15 win in the XFL Conference game (a good, solid game story here: The UFL | Brahmas Best Battlehawks 25-15 in XFL Conference Championship).
The result? A Birmingham-San Antonio matchup this Sunday in St. Louis for the inaugural UFL Championship.
Our story from Saturday’s Stallions’ win over Michigan: ONE HALF OF UFL TITLE GAME SET! Birmingham comes back, tops Michigan to clinch USFL Conference | The Football Beat.
By the way, Birmingham lost only once all season.
That loss was to San Antonio.
We’ll have stories all week here on The Football Beat on the very first UFL title game. Congratulations to Birmingham on surviving Michigan’s upset bid, and congratulations to San Antonio for overcoming the odds and the hostile crowd, and getting to the championship game.
