Billings Outlaws

USFootball team
color1 = #A9ACB6
color2 = #104E8B

pixels = 150px
founded = 2000
league = Indoor Football League
history = IFL (2000)
NIFL (2001-2006)
UIF (2007-2008)
IFL (2009-Present)
arena = Rimrock Auto Arena
city = Billings, Montana
colors = Blue, Silver, Black
president = Mike Parnell
coach = Heron O'Neal
championships = 1: 2006
titles = 2: 2004, 2006
mascot = Rocky Fork Regulators

The Billings Outlaws are a professional indoor football team. They are a member of the Indoor Football League. They play their home games at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark.

The team originally began play as a 2000 expansion member of the Indoor Football League as the Billings Thunderbolts. Despite a winning record of 8-6, it wasn't enough to get make the playoffs. When the league folded, they became a charter member of the National Indoor Football League in 2001 and became the "Billings Outlaws" until the 2005 season when they were the Billings Mavericks and the start of the 2006 season, when a naming dispute with the "Osceola Outlaws" led to the NIFL stripping both teams of the "Outlaws" name. However, as of June 11, 2006, the NIFL recognized Billings as the "Outlaws" again.

The Outlaws hosted the NIFL Indoor Bowl VI on July 28, 2006 in front of a sold out MetraPark and beat the Fayetteville Guard 59-44.

A training facility costing around $3 million was built for the Outlaws and will open in March 2007. A facility of this nature is unprecedented in any indoor or arena league other than the Arena Football League. Photos of this facility can be found [http://billingssportsplex.com/ here] . The facility will be called the Outlaws Community SportsPlex.

After the 2006 season, the Outlaws announced they were joining United Indoor Football for the 2007 season. [http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=3380262] After two ultimately unsuccessful campaigns in the UIF, both of which ended with a loss in the semi-final round to Sioux Falls, they became members of the Indoor Football League through the UIF's merger with the Intense Football League.

Season-By-Season

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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Thunderbolts (IFL)
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2000 || 8 || 6 || 0 || 4th WC Northern || --
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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Outlaws (NIFL)
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2001 || 7 || 7 || 0 || 4th League Central || --
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2002 || 10 || 4 || 0 || 2nd Pacific West || Won Round 1 (Lincoln)
Won Conference Championship (Bismarck)
Lost Indoor Bowl II (Ohio Valley)
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2003 || 6 || 8 || 0 || 5th Pacific West || --
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2004 || 11 || 3 || 0 || 1st Pacific West || Won Pacific Semi-Final (Omaha)
Lost Pacific Conference Championship (Sioux Falls)
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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Mavericks (NIFL)
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2005 || 4 || 9 || 0 || 3rd Pacific West || Lost Pacific Quarterfinal (Everett)
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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Outlaws (NIFL)
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2006 || 13 || 1 || 0 || 1st Pacfic North || Won Pacific Semi-Final (Tri-Cities)
Won Pacific Conference Championship (Rapid City)
Won Indoor Bowl VI (Fayetteville)
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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Outlaws (UIF)
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2007 || 8 || 6 || 0 || 2nd West || Won Round 1 (Omaha)
Lost Western Championship (Sioux Falls)
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2008 || 11 || 4 || 0 || 2nd West || Won Round 1 (Omaha)
Lost Western Championship (Sioux Falls)
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colspan="6" align="center" | Billings Outlaws (IFL)
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2009 || -- || -- || -- || -- || --
-!Totals || 78 || 48 || 0
colspan="2"| (including playoffs)
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External links

* [http://www.billingsoutlaws.com Official Site]
* [http://www.qkstats.net/UIF/2007/bil.htm Outlaws' 2007 Stats]
* [http://www.qkstats.net/UIF/2008/bil.htm Outlaws' 2008 Stats]