The Virginia Destroyers are a professional American football team based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. They began play in the United Football League (UFL) in the 2011 season. They play their home games at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex.
The team is a successor to 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. Former NFL defensive coordinator Kurt Schottenheimer is the team's head coach and general manager.
The current status of the team is unknown as no public contact has been made with a team official beyond a final posting on facebook promising upcoming information on refunds for the season ticket holders when the 2012 season was abruptly cancelled. Local offices have been closed, the official team website has been removed, and calls to the ownership go directly to voicemail.
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“Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)