UFL Week 2 Notes

September 19, 2011 - United Football League (UFL 1) News Release

JACKSONVILLE, FL - Monday, September 19, 2011 - For only the second time in United Football League history, two teams with 1-0 records will face each other for sole possession of first place in the league standings when the Virginia Destroyers play their first-ever game at the Virginia Beach Sportsplex against the two-time defending UFL champion Las Vegas Locomotives on Saturday at 7pm EDT / 4pm PDT.

The Destroyers are coming off a 23-13 win in Week 1 at the Omaha Nighthawks, while the Locos took a 23-17 decision from the Sacramento Mountain Lions at Hornet Stadium to open the 2011 campaign and hit the road for a second successive week.

The only other 1-0 vs. 1-0 game in UFL history was between the Tuskers and Locos on October 14, 2009 at Sam Boyd Stadium, as Florida defeated Las Vegas on the road, 29-15, behind three Brooks Bollinger touchdown passes and a defense which racked up six sacks, which is still a UFL record

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PACKING THEM IN ‚¬Â¦ MOUNTAIN LIONS SELL OUT IN SACRAMENTO

The UFL set a new league record for highest combined Week 1 attendance this year, as 35,774 fans came through the turnstiles at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha and Hornet Stadium. The 2011 attendance mark was a 52.3 percent increase over 2010, and a 40.3-percent increase over 2009.

Mountain Lions fans packed into their home stadium to record a sellout 19,938 attendance - the first time a UFL team has announced a sellout crowd on opening weekend. The Sacramento crowd totaled 1,813 more fans than the 18,125 average recorded at Hornet Stadium last season.

The three combined opening-weekend attendance figures are 25,495 in 2009 (Las Vegas and Florida), 23,487 in 2010 (Hartford and Las Vegas) and a new record 35,774 in 2011 as 19,938 attended in Sacramento and 15,836 in Omaha.

"We could not have been happier with the attendance," said Mountain Lions Senior Vice President JOE WAGONER. "There were two other major football events in Sacramento at the same time as ours and we still had more than 19,000 attend and announced a sellout. It goes to show that this team is meant for this market. The fans were lined up outside the parking lot at 4.30 waiting to tailgate. Fans could not wait to see their fellow fans again. It was like a reunion of sorts and the place was rocking."

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THE UFL - POWERED BY VEETLE AND REGIONAL SPORTS NETWORKS

The United Football League's opening week game between the Sacramento Mountain Lions and Las Vegas Locomotives was streamed live on the official UFL website [2]www.UFL-Football.com, powered by Veetle and was shown locally in the Sacramento and Las Vegas markets.

For the first time in its three-year history, the UFL has targeted regional sports networks in its home cities and the Mountain Lions-Locos clash was aired by Comcast SportsNet California and also broadcast on Cox Cable CBS Las Vegas.

"We feel it is important to try to bring fans in each team's region live coverage of their team, particularly when they are on the road," said UFL Commissioner MICHAEL HUYGHUE. "People have a familiarity with these channels and partnering with them underlines our focus on building local interest and buzz in our cities."

The Comcast broadcast shown on Cox CBS and through the web stream featured the game from Hornet Stadium at Sacramento State as Sacramento sportscaster GRANT NAPEAR was joined by former NFL coach JERRY GLANVILLE, former Cal and NFL quarterback MIKE PAWLAWSKI and radio personality DAN DIBLEY.

Thanks to the Veetle stream, almost 20,000 fans also tuned in en masse to watch the defending champion Locos visit the Mountain Lions on their iPhone, iPad and Android devices by clicking through the ‚¬ËœWatch Live' link on the UFL website homepage.

The stream is still available for fans to watch now at [3]www.UFL-Football.com.

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2011 UFL STANDINGS

TEAM W L PCT. PF PA HOME ROAD

Las Vegas Locomotives 1 0 1.000 23 17 0-0 1-0

Virginia Destroyers 1 0 1.000 23 13 0-0 1-0

Omaha Nighthawks 0 1 .000 13 23 0-1 0-0

Sacramento Mountain Lions 0 1 .000 17 23 0-1 0-0

UFL WEEK 2 SCHEDULE (All times local)

Saturday, September 24

Las Vegas at Virginia, 7 p.m. EDT

BYES

Omaha, Sacramento

UFL WEEK 2 PREVIEW

Las Vegas Locomotives (0-1) at Virginia Destroyers (1-0), 7 p.m. Eastern

ALL-TIME SERIES: First-ever meeting.

BROADCAST: Destroyers Radio ESPN 94.1 [4]http://www.espnradio941.com/

Locos Radio ESPN 1100 [5]http://werlv.com/

GAME NOTES: The UFL capacity for the Virginia Beach Sportsplex that will host the first-ever Virginia Destroyers home game is 14,000... Saturday night's matchup is a quasi-extension of the most intense UFL rivalry to date, as the Destroyers feature many ex-Florida Tuskers players ‚¬Â¦ The Locos and Tuskers played each other six times in 2009 and 2010, finishing 3-3, and Las Vegas topped Florida in both of the previous UFL Championship Games ‚¬Â¦ The Omaha Nighthawks (0-1) and the Sacramento Mountain Lions (0-1) have Week 2 byes. They will return to action against each other in Week 3 on October 1 at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento.

TEAM NOTES: This will be the fourth straight game the Locos have played away from their Sam Boyd Stadium home in Las Vegas (at Hartford 11/20/10, Championship Game at Omaha 11/26/10 and at Omaha 9/15/11) ‚¬Â¦ The Locos are 6-2 all-time in regular-season road games, winning three straight in 2010 before falling to Hartford on the last day of the season... Head Coach JIM FASSEL boasts a 10-5 regular season record in the UFL ‚¬Â¦ Las Vegas quarterback CHASE CLEMENT threw for 233 yards and ran for 32 more and a touchdown in the Week 1 win at Sacramento... Third-year tight end ADAM BERGEN led the team in receiving with 6 catches for 62 yards ‚¬Â¦ Wide receiver SAMIE PARKER caught 4 passes for 101 yards, including a league-record longest reception of 83 yards ‚¬Â¦ Third-year running back DEDE DORSEY rushed 9 times for 51 yards and caught 3 passes for 30 yards ‚¬Â¦ Running back MARCEL SHIPP led Locos backs against Sacramento with 12 carries for 35 yards ‚¬Â¦ Cornerback WALE DADA led the Locos with 9 tackles and 2 passes defended ‚¬Â¦ Linebacker MARCUS RILEY weighed in with 6.5 tackles ‚¬Â¦ Cornerback MARQUIS FLOYD had 4.5 total tackles, a fumble recovery, an interception and two pass breakups in his UFL debut... Defensive end COPELAND BRYAN registered the only sack against the Mountain Lions for a loss of 8 yards ‚¬Â¦ Kicker AARON PETTREY was 3-for-3 on field goals and 2-for-2 on extra points in his first UFL game... Destroyers Head Coach MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER is 1-0 in the UFL having won on his coaching debut 23-13 at the Omaha Nighthawks last week. He is the sixth all-time winningest head coach in NFL history ‚¬Â¦ Destroyers running back DOMINIC RHODES became the all-time UFL touchdown leader in Week 1 with 11. He scored on a three-yard dash for a touchdown that was the first in Destroyers history... Quarterback CHRIS GREISEN threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver BILLY LATSKO ‚¬Â¦ Wide receiver AUNDRAE ALLISON caught a 73-yard pass last week at Omaha ‚¬Â¦ Virginia kicker DELBERT ALVARADO kicked three field goals (42, 22, 20) in the Week 1 victory... As of Sunday, 20 of the 51 players on Virginia's active roster played for the Florida Tuskers in previous seasons so are eager to avenge two Championship Game losses to the Locos.

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UFL QUOTABLES

On his return to coaching, Destroyers head coach MARTY SCHOTTENHEIMER said: "It's delightful. The essence of it for me is I'm a teacher. I love to teach the game of football to these young men. I get great gratification and satisfaction seeing them use things I didn't have the skill set to do as a player. I live vicariously through them and I walk out of here feeling like - Hey, we won this one!"

On his team opening the defense of their UFL crown with a win, Locos head coach JIM FASSEL said: "Any time you can go on the road and win the first game, it's good. It's hard to win on the road. I thought Chase Clement played really well. I thought he was anxious at the beginning of the game but he really settled down. That's pretty normal for a first game for any quarterback. We got him settled down a little bit."

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