Alabama- Montgomery Maulers owner Jamie LaMunyon [pictured right] had an emphatic response to her players’ demand for back wages: You’re fired. LaMunyon said she would field a replacement team for the Alabama team’s National Indoor Football League game Friday at Osceola, Fla. The mass firings came after four Maulers held a news conference at a local attorney’s office Wednesday saying the team wouldn’t travel to Osceola if LaMunyon didn’t pay money they claimed she owed them.

LaMunyon disputed the players’ claims that some had not been paid for as long as four weeks. “They have missed one paycheck,” LaMunyon said. “The league requires that I hold their last paycheck because [the players] have a couple of thousand dollars worth of equipment.” Players’ checks bounced earlier this month, which LaMunyon said was just a mistake in her accounting.