The Richmond Revolution was a professional indoor football team based in

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that played in the

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from 2010 to 2011. For the 2010 season, they played their home games at the

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. Because of space issues at that facility the owner decided to move onto the SportsQuest campus in nearby Chesterfield for the 2011 season and play all home games outdoors, since the proposed arena had not yet been built. However, in late August, Richmond BizSense's writer Aaron Kremer (8/25/11) reported that Charlie Hildbold, the general manager, was laid off. He had moved to Virginia to help launch the indoor arena football team. According to Steve Burton, the owner of the team, Richmond Revolution will sit out the 2012 season and be reinstated in 2013. Scott Bass a writer for Style Weekly reported (3/9/2011) nearly half of the 40 players on the Raiders' training camp roster for 2011 defected from Richmond Revolution, as well as the Revolution's head coach, Steve Criswell. On February 9, 2012, the Virginia attorney general's office filed a civil suit against SportsQuest, the company that owns the Revolution. This was Richmond's third attempt at trying to build a long lasting indoor professional football team. The demise of Richmond Revolution left the

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the only team in the area. Previous teams were the

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of the

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and the

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of the AIFL. When the team was first organized a name-the-team contest was held on the SportsQuest webpage. Nominations continued until August 11, 2009, with the five finalist names ''Blitz,'' ''Rush,'' ''Rivermen,'' ''Revolution,'' and ''Reign'' chosen the next day. Voting continued until August 21 with the Revolution name unveiled on August 24. The Indoor Football League announced on June 23, 2010, that the Revolution had won the 2010 IFL Franchise of the Year award. In addition the team also took home the League's Media Relations of the Year. Revolution QB

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was named the 2010 IFL Most Valuable Player, and head coach Steve Criswell was named the IFL Coach of the Year. Later in the Steve Criswell left the team and on October 7, 2010, Richmond Revolution announced their new head coach would be former local standout Tony Hawkins. Hawkins is the all-time leading passer in Virginia State University history.

Season-by-season

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, , 13 , , 1 , , 0 , , 1st Atlantic East , , Lost Round 1 ( Rochester) , - ,

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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Notable players

Final roster

Awards and honors

The following is a list of all Revolution players who have won league Awards

All-IFL players

The following Revolution players have been named to All-IFL Teams: * OL Derek Stoudt (1) * DL Jason Holman (1) * DB Demarcus James (1)

Staff

*Owner: SportsQuest *President of Sales/Operations: Mark F. Wood *Assistant GM/VP of Sports Operations: Charlie Hildbold *Head Coach: Tony Hawkins *Defensive Coordinator: Kevin Coles *Defensive Assistant/Special Teams: Larry Long *Offensive Assistant/Equipment Mgr: Mike Bonner *Mascot: George The Eagle

References

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External links

Richmond Revolution Official Website
Former Indoor Football League teams American football teams in Richmond, Virginia 2010 establishments in Virginia 2011 disestablishments in Virginia