Birmingham Stallions cement dynasty status with dominant run to UFL crown

With a 25-0 win against the XFL Conference champion San Antonio Brahmas in Sunday's UFL Championship Game, the Birmingham Stallions' dynasty is complete. Skip Holtz's Stallions joined Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers (1965-1967) and Hugh Campbell's Edmonton Elks (Eskimos, 1978-1982) as the only pro football clubs to win three straight championships.

In doing so, Holtz has accomplished what Bill Belichick did not with the New England Patriots, and what Andy Reid will attempt to do next winter with the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Stallions have compiled a 32-4 record in three years, never sustaining more than two losses in a single season. During that span, Holtz has developed two league MVPs and several NFL players, including NFL First Team All-Pro kicker Brandon Aubrey of the Dallas Cowboys.

Along with general manager Zach Potter, Holtz has built a club out of players who starred in college and fell through cracks at various training camps, suffered roster cuts and fell victim to the finite numbers of professional football. They found men who want to win as much as they want to get back to the NFL.

"They're not essentially at their lowest point, I don't believe in that," Potter said. "I just think it's another roadblock; adversity that these guys are gonna have to overcome and conquer. But the way that we do it is we're trying to do it is we're trying to acquire talent that we believe will be difficult for other teams to acquire."

That talent was on full display on Father's Day at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. The Brahmas walked in with the No. 1 scoring defense in the UFL, a unit that had given up more than 20 points only once — a 31-24 Week 3 loss to the same St. Louis BattleHawks they beat in the XFL title