The Billings Outlaws are a professional indoor football team that began play as a member of Champions Indoor Football for the 2022 season. Based in Billings, Montana, the Outlaws play their home games at MetraPark First Interstate Arena. For 2024, they have been announced as members of the revived Arena Football League.
History
The Outlaws will be the third indoor football team to be based in Billings following the original Billings Outlaws (2000–2010) and the Billings Wolves (2015–2016).
On April 30, 2021, Keith Russ and Tel Koen, owners of fellow Champions Indoor Football (CIF) team the Wyoming Mustangs, announced they would bring an expansion CIF team to Billings for the 2022 season.[1] A name-the-team contest was held, with the Outlaws being named the winner on July 22.[2] Despite using the original Outlaws' name, logo, and colors, the current Outlaws are considered to be a new franchise with no other connection to the previous Outlaws, but continues to market itself as a continuation.
In June 2022, it was announced Steven Titus, a Gillette, Wyoming, attorney purchased the Outlaws and Wyoming Mustangs.[3] On August 29, 2023, the Outlaws were announced to become members of the third incarnation of the Arena Football League.[4] Titus named the Mustangs' head coach, Cedric Walker, as the new head coach of the Outlaws.[4]
Season-by-season results
| League Champions | Conference Champions | Division Champions | Playoff berth | League leader |
| Season | League | Conference | Division | Regular season | Postseason results | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | |||||
| 2022 | CIF | 4th | 7 | 3 | 0 | Won Quarterfinal (Wyoming Mustangs) 49–40 Lost Semifinal (Salina Liberty) 14–26 | ||
| 2023 | CIF | 4th | 6 | 4 | 0 | Won Quarterfinal (Sioux City Bandits) 39–31 Lost Semifinal (Omaha Beef) 6–42 | ||
| Totals | 13 | 7 | 0 | All-time regular season record | ||||
| 2 | 2 | — | All-time postseason record | |||||
| 15 | 9 | 0 | All-time regular season and postseason record | |||||
Notes
- ^ "Professional Indoor Football to Return to Billing [sic] for the 2022 season". April 30, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
- ^ "Billings fans take new indoor football team back to the future for nickname". July 22, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
- ^ "'Rebuild, refocus, improve:' New Billings Outlaws owner Steven Titus introduced at press conference". Billings Gazette/406 MT Sports. June 4, 2022.
- ^ a b "OUTLAWS JOIN AFL FOR 2024 SEASON". BillingsOutlaws.com. August 29, 2023.
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