BILLINGS — It’s been a wild, wild ride with more ups and downs and twists than even the biggest amusement park roller-coaster in this year of the relaunched, first-year Arena Football League.
And, now the top-seeded Billings Outlaws (8-1) find themselves in ArenaBowl XXXIII against the second-seeded Albany Firebirds (8-2) at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the American Dream Entertainment/Retail Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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It’s a game the Outlaws have been confident in reaching and winning all season, roadblocks and all. And another one of those surfaced in the last 24 hours.
A report appearing on the Pro Football Newsroom website late Tuesday night with the headline of “Arena Football League on Brink of Championship Disaster” stated “the AFL is seeing some major changes this week when it comes to leadership. In addition, issues stemming from financial fraud has put the Arena Bowl game in jeopardy of even being played at all.”
It was a report that was rebuffed Wednesday — after a hectic morning for those with the AFL, Billings and Albany franchises, which undoubtedly received plenty of feedback after the article appeared.
All three entities — the AFL, Outlaws and Firebirds, issued statements or confirmed in interviews that the ArenaBowl would be played as scheduled Friday in East Rutherford at the American Dream.
In the story, PFN went on to report that AFL CEO and chairman Chris Chetty has been removed from his position after alleged credit card fraud.
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