Memphis Showboats head coach will not return in 2025
After leading the Showboats to a 2-8 record in his one and only season, Memphis and head coach John DeFilippo have parted ways. The team’s general manager is out too.
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After leading the Showboats to a 2-8 record in his one and only season, Memphis and head coach John DeFilippo have parted ways. The team’s general manager is out too.
What will it take for survival in a Memphis market that tends to spit out its minor-league football franchises like pickled pig tongue?
The five touchdown passes by Daewood Davis were tied for the second-most in the league.
The Memphis Showboats aren’t leaving Memphis. Marketing man Steve Macy shouts it from the rooftop.
Former Ole Miss Rebels QB Jordan Ta’amu put on quite a display as the DC Defenders handed the Memphis Showboats their eighth straight loss Sunday.
Despite facing an early 6-point deficit, the Stallions won their sixth-straight game while pushing the Memphis losing streak to five with a 39-21 victory in front of an announced crowd of 5,609 fans.
The Memphis Showboats have been outscored in the final two quarters of every game played this season by a combined margin of 45 points.
The Memphis Showboats dropped their 2024 UFL home opener by one point, after leading for the first 59 minutes against San Antonio.
“We understand the hesitancy to buy in,” Daryl Johnston said as the new UFL’s Showboats, who play in Memphis but practice in Texas, prepare for their home opener.
Coach John DeFilippo battles a severe form of arthritis called ankylosing spondylitis, but he’ll be on the sideline Saturday at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium when the Memphis Showboats host the San Antonio Brahmas in their home opener.
The Memphis Showboats set sail on the United Football League season with a road win over the Houston Roughnecks at Rice Stadium on Sunday.
The Houston Roughnecks will play host to the Memphis Showboats for the only conference matchup in Week 1 of the UFL season.
More than half of the 20 players Memphis drafted came from the New Orleans Breakers’ roster. The Showboats also selected Case Cookus, one of the USFL’s top quarterbacks last season.
The Showboats were announced Monday, Jan. 1, as one of eight teams in the United Football League, a newly formed merger of the USFL and XFL spring pro football leagues.
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