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Birmingham Stallions are top team in first-year UFL at midseason

AP photo by Butch Dill / A fan holds a sign supporting the Birmingham Stallions during a home game in April 2022. The pro football franchise from Alabama won the USFL title the past two years, and it was one of four teams from that league to survive in the offseason merger with the XFL to form the UFL.
AP photo by Butch Dill / A fan holds a sign supporting the Birmingham Stallions during a home game in April 2022. The pro football franchise from Alabama won the USFL title the past two years, and it was one of four teams from that league to survive in the offseason merger with the XFL to form the UFL. AP photo by Butch Dill / A fan holds a sign supporting the Birmingham Stallions during a home game in April 2022. The pro football franchise from Alabama won the USFL title the past two years, and it was one of four teams from that league to survive in the offseason merger with the XFL to form the UFL.

By JOE REEDY / The Associated Press 6 min read

The Birmingham Stallions are playing in a new spring football league, but one thing hasn’t changed: their winning ways.

With the United Football League’s inaugural regular season halfway over, the Stallions are the only unbeaten team at 5-0 — and the Alabama franchise has a chance to wrap up the first of four available playoff berths with a road win against the Memphis Showboats on Saturday.

The UFL came about after the merger of the USFL and XFL last September. Birmingham, the two-time USFL champion, was one of four teams to survive from that league, along with four teams from the XFL.

“Skip Holtz is a heck of a football coach. He has a great way about him and how he manages that team,” said Russ Brandon, the president and CEO of the XFL. “When you saw them in training camp, you thought this was a team that was going to be tough to beat.”

The USFL, which was owned by Fox Sports, had its first season in 2022. The only similarities it had with the original United States Football League of 1983-85 was the team names and playing in the spring.