UFLAccess.com’s Xander Rich reports on the possibility of Orlando hosting the 2010 United Football League championship game.
The Las Vegas Locomotives won the first championship of the United Football League Friday with a 20-17 overtime defeat of the Florida Tuskers before 14,801 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
Locos running back DeDe Dorsey, who scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to force overtime, was named the game’s Title Sports Drink Most Valuable Player. Las Vegas kicker Graham Gano drilled a 33-yard field goal in overtime for the win, igniting a spirited celebration on the Locos’ sideline and among their home fans in the stands.
Las Vegas Locomotives runningback DeDe Dorsey has been proving why he is among the league’s elite all season, and the Locos player seized the opportunity to really shine in this afternoon’s thrilling UFL Championship game, averaging 6.0 yards on 11 carries and leading his team to an overtime 20-17 Locomotives victory.
Florida Tuskers (6-0) travel to Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, home of the inaugural UFL Championship Game. The Tuskers aim to derail the Las Vegas Locomotives (4-2). Winner takes home the Hambrecht Trophy.
Tomorrow the Florida Tuskers and Las Vegas Locos will battle for the first ever Hambrecht Trophy. On Media Day both teams looked relaxed and confident. A common refrain from the players was that while this may not be the Super Bowl, this is still a Championship Game and that is something that they are all excited about.
Michael Huyghue opened up his State of the League Address by saying, “This league was an idea ten years in the making, an idea of William Hambrecht’s. The idea evolved over time but we went out with a few core principles. One, we wanted to be in non-NFL markets as much as possible. Two, the appetite for football in this country is insatiable. We decided we were going to build with football people and have a high quality product. Our mission, period, was quality and we thought we could get NFL caliber players who could provide 80% of the quality of an NFL guy at 20% of the cost.”
UFLAccess.com News Director Nation Hahn will be filing blog posts live from Las Vegas where he is covering the Championship Game and all of the events prior and after. Pay attention to the time stamp at the top as that will indicate when the blog has been updated! Stay tuned to UFLAccess.com all week for the best Championship Game coverage!
The week of the Championship Game has arrived and UFLAccess.com will have all of the coverage that UFL fans can handle. I will be posting a daily blog beginning in Tuesday live from Las Vegas, tomorrow night we will have a special Championship Game edition of “Inside the UFL” at 8 PM EST with a round table preview of the game, and on Wednesday we will be livetweeting the United Football League’s first ever Media Day at http://www.twitter.com/UFLAccess. (Image, left, courtesy of the United Football League)