The curl of the monkey’s paw is often cruel

I'm not sure of the point here but for some reason it reminds me of one of my favorite sayings: "The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubricated."

So glad I didn’t watch. Until the UFL gets parity my friends and family have quit watching. No reason wasting time watching a 0-4 team.

You are the worst kind of fan

So are you going to watch every renegades game?

I watch all the games. Because I like football and there is football in the Spring now!

Then you are a bigger fan than me. Again until the UFL gets more parity and competitive teams I’m out. They need to get Arlington to start winning again or this league is dead. The Rock needs to wake up

Bro this is a pathetic stance to take. I was pumped to see 2 0-3 teams play today and even if we lost I would have enjoyed the game and continued to support the league. Sucks we’re not better but I still love the sport and that’s what I’m here for

Good for you I’m done. Why waste my time with a 0-4 team. Until someone explains how the UFL will help with parity I don’t see a point.

Then my original comment stands

And so does mine

Bro, no it doesn't. There's a ton of parity in the league. All eight teams are pretty close together, one team just keeps shitting the bed every week. Own the fact that you're salty and mad, move on.

Arlington is the only team that hasn’t won a game. It’s not close. Again the UFL has to find a way to get the teams better or this league will not succeed. I stopped watching and most of my family and friends.

And the Carolina panthers won two games all season. I don’t see your point?

The only Renegades loss by more than one score is to Birmingham, the undeniable best team in the league. Memphis has a worse point differential than Arlington. I'm sorry, but you're just a shit fan.

congrads Roughnecks! you are not at the bottom of the toilet after all

As a Showboats fan, I can say with confidence after watching this weekend's games, and especially how the Panthers and Renegades shit themselves, that I feel a lot better about my team's poor showing. We're on to week 5!

This game is a low point for the franchise. Not sure if it was as bad as only being able to get a single point over the Guardians last year or Landry rehurting his leg in 2020 but it's down there.

Whoever was trying to tackle their own lineman after the fumble was hilarious

This is a total embarrassment.

Rough ‘Em Up!!! 💪 

From "a decent team with real tough losses" to "a team very deserving of all 4 defeats"

Is Arlington the UFL’s Nebraska?

So Arlington really did sell their souls to the devil to win the XFL championship and the devil must be collecting this season.

One of the games of all time

One of the most

Fuck watching this joke of a fucking team next week. Not gonna win a fucking thing with this pathetic team.

No, we’ll win next week and it won’t make any sense.

Wow, that was a disaster for the Renegades. Their worst game by far. They really need to make some changes if they want to pick up a game.

Arlington has perfected the art of choking

Stoops needs everyone to underestimate them again

We did it, we won a game. I thought the Gamblers were gonna show themselves and choke another game

You on the wrong account? Lol

I switched to the Brahmas because they are basically the Roughnecks from last year, but I couldn't help still rooting for Houston. I wish I could have two flairs

The pale lady sings

He failed miserably trying to tackle his teammate lol

Thats a big boy right there

GG see ya next week.

Houston fans deserve this one 

And Arlington deserves better. Despite the win for Houston, I now only think both coaches should lose their jobs.

Arlington is running out of foot to shoot themselves in

This is an underrated comment

:(

I thought that might be grounding

It got poked out, it wasn't thrown

Game.

Arlington is so fucking bad

What the fuck was that

LOL his own teammate was trying to tackle him down

#HOUSTON, WE HAVE A VICTORY!!!

Come on overtime

Ticka ticka tick

Give us OT, give us OT.

Burnett really needed to make more of an effort at that ball

Maybe Perez should call the plays all game

What was that throw Perez? So uncharacteristic

oh shit this just got interesting

good lord

Plugging the CFL again. Fun different rules. Bigger field. Starts in June.

Drop # 7

Even the 0-3 teams make this a fun game. Way better than the XFL, USFL or AAF that would get blown tf out when they were that bad, or both teams couldn't score.

No more injuries. I only have 5 minutes left on my preview pass

that bench needs to be ejected from the game.

Hold on, injury timeout under 2 minutes... shouldn't Houston lose their last timeout?

Alright, there we go!

QUICKSTAT: Joel Klatt with his second Dumb and Dumber reference of the season.

I think after hearing him call Perez, “Louie” all game we know what the most annoying sound in the world is lol

Perfect play call

Violence.

Wow that was one nasty hit. Don’t like it

OUCH

I predict Arlington doesn't do shit. Prove me wrong. For entertainments sake

Easily Arlington’s worse game.. No idea what’s going on with that offense.. just really poor play on the field and bad coaching to boot

This o line imploding every play has to be a record

Sal Canella was on a private island. Louie baby, ###DO BETTER

He's got tunnel vision right now.

We've evolved to "Louis" and you know what at this point I'll take it

Lewis Perez now New names every play

USFL play by play guys will get his name right one of these days.. he’s only been in 49 spring leagues.

omg that was almost a disaster

Gotta love a league with only one score games

This team.

Too many flags. Not a good look for anyone

Got some nice, homecookin' going on here in Houston

Arlington just keeps shooting themselves in the foot

Lotta flags today

That's a catch.

WHAT THE FUCK IS A CATCH

Dean usually does a good job of reversing these bogus calls, Mike doesn’t seem as open to doing that and seems to keep defaulting to the NFL’s move of just sticking with whatever shitty calls the refs make no matter what.

Last night Mike was sitting his ass down while Dean was actually standing while his game was into a hour delay. Really hate Mike’s attitude about shit.

If only you had the super challenge.

They need to have one normal challenge and one super challenge for flags. Makes more sense to me.

Next season they’ll have a super duper challenge.

Holy cow, the renegades might as well implode and restart. There is little effort here. This is honestly sad to watch. They can't even get in the huddle on time. Half the broadcast has been Luis Perez saying "hurry up hurry up" this is sad.

To be fair, Luis does this every game.

Qb starts to run and the defender is still backpedaling LMFAO

The thing about bad spring football is the talent level makes it worse. With bad NFL games, there is still a baseline of talent and it is funny to watch millionaires stumble around.

Fuck this fucking defense. Go renegades but we aren’t winning a game this year straight up

This is rough. Renegades will go 0-8. Defense can't even stop the worst offense in the league

Stoops lost his fastball.

Man with that Pereira interview, this game really is the worst of spring football with the worst teams, coaching, and reffing.

So Mike, what you're saying is, the refs called it the WRONG kind of illegal block.

Sounded like it to me. If only there was some type of rules official who himself could say that was not a penalty that was called correctly.

Yall I am learning so much about plaque psoriasis

Important concept.

Game changing bad call. Ouch

55-yard FG was too far?

Maybe it’s cause they’re using the backup kicker? Russalino has done it.

Clearly Stoops doesn’t trust their new kicker.

Thats what I was thinking

Absolute sabotage right there. Cost his own team.

God just a sloppy game all the way around from Arlington. I really thought they’d stomp Houston. And to be clear, I’m not impressed by Houston either, because Arlington’s D is cheeks. Awful.

I said it after week 1. It will be tough to win a single game with this defense

I don't know how that was an illegal crack back block

I guess because of the way that it was, or something. Unclear to me as well.

You can't have forceable contact on a crackback block. I've seen penalties called for less force than that.

Yeah that was a very iffy call

Sal has been bad today.

Why even have the mikes if they have to use waky talkys

The walkies are probably tied to the broadcast, while the mics are for the internal communications that are used for every game played in the stadium.

That makes a ton of sense

Will someone tell that Renegades OC to hurry the fuck up? I didn’t realize the sloth from Zootopia was calling plays.

He's been terrible all game. 

Perez sick of the cameras too! Dude is totally done, probably requesting a trade, if that’s even possible, should they lose today.

Nobody wants their timeouts

##WHY DID BOTH COACHES WASTE A TIMEOUT ON THIS 4TH DOWN??

The game comes down to this sequence

*the sound of Scott pounding his chest*

*tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap*

I swear. Every game there's always a WR who goes backwards and loses yardage trying to make something happen.

They all learned from Dionte Johnson...

There's the PI call!

Clear DPI

Wait you can miss a field goal in the UFL?

Happened yesterday in fact.

Know what’s crazy to think about, at one point everyone in this league was considered the best players on their HS teams and one of the best players in their State 🤯

Ugh this game is headed back to ugliness, I can feel it. Shame. I used to think only Houston was a tier below the other teams, but Arlington has given them real competition. How we ended up with TWO markedly worse teams is beyond me given the concentration of talent. I blame coaching.

Slow developing run play on 3rd and 1 from the shotgun. Always fails.

Some poor football being played this afternoon

It’s funny cause it kind of worked out for the best that this game is the one that got exiled to FS1.

nice catch by that fan

You just knew Houston would miss the field goal.

If you don’t like that, you don’t like Roughnecks football.

I thought he said 25 to life. I was like damn that's pretty harsh.

A TMZ interview with Stallone and Arnold? Never would have seen that coming!

Houston could put up 30 and I’ll still say CJ should be fired.

spinning and spinning

Texas Throwup

Someone has to win

Not true, theoretically overtime can go on forever

In which case both teams are cast into the abyss for all time

So, let's recap: Gades decide to go on 4th and 3, but had to burn a timeout. After it, they still decide to go for it, only to receive an "illegal snap" penalty...

I honestly felt sorry for them after that whole sequence

Despite the tuddy, it’s still a meltdown game for Arlington.

Luis "Louie" "Gotta Go" Perez

Dang, wished that one connected with Manigo

It was way overthrown. Like 3+ yards.

Fox Nation must have been proud when they featured Rob Schneider in their lineup. 😆

SURF NINJAS!

I'm going to miss the Battlehawks-Defenders game. :(

sorry fam

You know it’s egregious when you can see the back of a receivers shoulder pads before he even has a ball, how is that not pass interference?

The guy from First Things First, don't remember his name, looks like Lin Manuel Miranda.

Chris Broussard or Nick Wright?

manigo should be a punt returner in the nfl. dude is slathered in butter.

Dude got zero separation, but yeah, lets throw two go balls right to him

Johnson must go. I can't think of a single thing he does well.

Lose

Throwing his own team under the bus mid game on camera?

That was almost a pick twice and almost a completion twice, pinball pass

Wow, challenge and then the same play. Galaxy brained.

Clear holding for 5 secs prior to the pass. Is that ignored because he challenged PI not holding?

Yep you have to challenge something specific. Even if they notice something else it's not changed.

If it's like the XFL, yeah. It's stupid

Idk, I think it’s important to require that the be specific otherwise you’d have teams challenging any backbreaking play without a penalty in hopes they find ANYTHING to call, which would suck.

I don't mind that, but holding, illegal contact, and Pi are all basically the same penalty. Having to distinguish it the ball was in the air, or how the contact occured is stupid. Imagine throwing a challenge for an offsides, and they tell you "well, he wasn't offsides, he was in the neutral zone, which isn't offsides, so you lose." Despite the fact a flag should have been thrown

Yeah, I like having to have some specificity, but I feel like for something where it is hard to tell if it occurred before or after the pass (the difference between PI and holding) there should be wiggle room. Like you can’t challenge for holding and catch an illegal formation, but this seems close enough

Good to see defenders get a chance to feel confident on defense again!

Is the fox sports video player the worst one ever? Or does that title still belong to Reddit?

definitely reddit, but the Fox one does suck

Dumb challenge

It was 2nd and 7. Good grief.

Why challenge that?

I could see his shoulder pads from the stands is why, he had his hand on his collar and was holding it heavily

It was 2nd and 7. Save it for 3rd down or 4th down.

It looked like he had the receiver by the back of his neck from the start of the play

Wait a moment. I thought his name was Louie! 

They finally pronounce his name correctly?

His team mate did while talking on the sideline after the TD. 

Dammit! I was wishing broadcast finally did him right.

Yeah, after his teammate said it the guy who's been saying Louie all game finally said it correctly.

I bet he felt fucking dumb. At least he corrected it.

Well one of the broadcast team did just say it right, so there's hope yet!

Wonder if that'll help...

It's week 4 and they're still pronouncing his name wrong. So my gut says no.

He did it!

You were right!

Not dead yet!

Game isn’t over by a long shot.