Virginia Destroyers
| Virginia Destroyers | |
| Years active: 2009 –2012 | |
| City | Virginia Beach, Virginia |
| Head coach | |
| Owner(s) | Bill Mayer |
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| United Football League (2009–2012) | |
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| Team colors | Cardinal red, navy blue, gray
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| Team history | |
| Championships | |
| League championships (1) | |
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The Virginia Destroyers were a professional American football team based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. They began play in the United Football League (UFL) in the 2011 season. They played their home games at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex.
The team succeeded the Florida Tuskers, a charter UFL franchise based in Orlando, Florida, from 2009 to 2010. The Tuskers appeared in the first two UFL Championship Games, losing both to the Las Vegas Locomotives. In 2010 the league suspended the Tuskers' operations and moved the remnants of the team to Virginia Beach to assume the identity (and some executive staff) of a previously announced expansion team that was to begin play in 2011.
The Destroyers' business license expired March 1, 2013; the team had effectively ceased operations several weeks prior.
Orlando was awarded a franchise for the UFL's 2009 season. Former New Orleans Saints and St. Louis Rams head coach Jim Haslett was named the first head coach of the team on March 11, 2009.
Tryouts for the four teams that would play in the 2009 season took place in Orlando and Las Vegas during the summer, with the draft taking place on June 19. With their first selection, the Tuskers picked Fred Bledsoe, who had gone undrafted in the 2008 NFL Draft before signing with the Green Bay Packers as a practice squad member.
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