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Billings Outlaws (AF1)
The Outlaws Arena Football Team, historically known as the Billings Outlaws, are a professional Indoor American football, indoor football team based in Billings, Montana that compete in Arena Football One (2025), Arena Football One (AF1). The Outlaws play their home games at MetraPark Arena, MetraPark First Interstate Arena. They were founded in 2022 as members of Champions Indoor Football. In 2024, they joined the revived Arena Football League (2024), Arena Football League and won ArenaBowl XXXIII. In 2025, they became inaugural members of the newly-formed AF1. 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). Champions Indoor Football (2022–2023) 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. A na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Football League
The Arena Football League (AFL) was a professional arena football league in the United States. It was founded in 1986, but played its first official games in the 1987 Arena Football League season, 1987 season, making it the third longest-running professional football league in North America after the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL) until the AFL closed in 2019. The AFL played a formerly proprietary code known as arena football, a form of American football played indoors on a 66-by-28 yard field (about a quarter of the surface area of an NFL field), with rules encouraging offensive performance, resulting in a typically faster-paced and higher-scoring game compared to NFL games. The sport was invented in the early 1980s and patented by Jim_Foster_(American_football), Jim Foster, a former executive of the United States Football League (USFL) and the NFL. Each of the league's 32 seasons culminated in the ArenaBowl, with the winner being crowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |