Throughout their existence the team drew 574,481 fans in 47 home games (12,223 per contest), at the time, the highest number (on average) in the history of minor league football.

The Neptunes were among the most commercially successful professional football teams of its era outside of the two major leagues (NFL and AFL); the 1969 season featured the team drawing over 13,000 fans per game to their contests, more than double the Continental League average.

[4] Vivian Seaborne, a Southampton County, Virginia native, and cousin of Pearl Bailey was the first African American cheerleader for the Neptunes.

It was during that time that she met her husband Nelson Munsey, who played for the Neptunes from 1969 until his 1972 draft to the Baltimore Colts.

Professional football would not return to the Hampton Roads region until the Virginia Destroyers arrived in 2011.