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| Date | October 21, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Stadium | Virginia Beach Sportsplex, Virginia Beach, VA | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Aaron Rouse, strong safety | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Perry Havener | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 14,172 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| National anthem | Lt. Col. Katherine A. Strus | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Brent Harris (play-by-play) Jerry Glanville (color analysis) | ||||||||||||||||||
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.[1] 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.[2] 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 and only 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.