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2011 UFL Championship Game
The 2011 UFL Championship Game was the third championship game of the United Football League and took place on October 21, 2011, the concluding weekend of the league's truncated third season.〔http://www.ufl-football.com/news/destroyers-and-locos-play-2011-united-football-league-championship-game-virginia-october-21〕 The game was won by the Virginia Destroyers, who, in front of a standing-room-only home crowd at Virginia Beach Sportsplex, defeated the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Locomotives 17–3, spurred by the performance of strong safety and game MVP Aaron Rouse.〔Robinson, Tom (October 22, 2011). (Virginia Destroyers capture UFL title in 17-3 victory ). ''Virginian-Pilot''. Retrieved October 22, 2011.〕 The win gave Destroyers coach Marty Schottenheimer, notorious for his failure to reach the Super Bowl in his NFL coaching career despite strong regular season statistics, his first championship as a professional head coach and his first professional championship since the 1965 American Football League Championship Game, Schottenheimer's rookie season as a player.
==Background==
(詳細は2011 season. At the start of the offseason, the UFL had six teams: the Las Vegas Locomotives, Sacramento Mountain Lions, Omaha Nighthawks, Florida Tuskers, Hartford Colonials, and expansion Virginia Destroyers. The leagued had hoped for a ten-game season involving those six teams that would begin in August with the title game in late October or early November, on the premise that the National Football League's ongoing player lockout would extend into its preseason and early regular season, which takes place in August and September. Plans would start to shift in January 2011, when the Tuskers folded and its players and staff shifted to Virginia to form the Destroyers.〔("Omaha Nighthawks name Joe Moglia new coach" ), from omaha.com, 1/12/2011〕 The UFL's new plans for a five-team season, starting in August and ending with the title game the weekend of October 21–23,〔("United Football League announces 2011 schedule," ) press release from UFL via OurSportsCentral, 6/9/2011〕 would be delayed in July and changed in August, when the Colonials were folded,〔("Struggling UFL shuts down Hartford team," ) from Associated Press via Bloomberg Businessweek, 8/12/2011〕 the NFL's lockout was resolved,〔Smith, Michael David (July 20, 2011). (Jim Fassel: UFL misread the NFL lockout ). ''Pro Football Talk''. Retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 and the UFL couldn't reach a national TV partnership.
The UFL's 2011 season would finally begin on September 15, with the Championship Game set for the weekend of November 4–5. By mid-October, when five of the season's seven weeks were played, the UFL announced the cancellation of the last two weeks of the season and moved up the title game to the night of October 21—ironically the weekend originally slated for the title game in the previous five-team plan.〔http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/16/ufl-fast-forwarding-to-title-gam/〕 Virginia and Las Vegas, who shared first place at the time of cancellation (with identical 3-1 records) were awarded berths in the Championship Game. Using similar criteria employed to determine the 2010 Championship Game's host venue (an inexact formula based on team success and fan support), Virginia Beach Sportsplex was announced as the 2011 title game's venue; the Destroyers attracted crowds in the 12,000 for their two home games, while only 6,500 came to Las Vegas' lone home game on October 8 (the Locos' final two home games were among the games cancelled by the league).
On the field, the play of the Locomotives and Destroyers (the former Florida Tuskers) were on par with their performances in 2009 and 2010. Coached by Jim Fassel, the Locos were led by quarterback Chase Clement, the 2010 title game MVP, and the top-ranked passing defense in the UFL. The Destroyers, under the guidance of 2011 Coach of the Year Marty Schottenheimer, were led by running back Dominic Rhodes, the league's leading rusher, top scorer, and Offensive Player of the Year.
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