Jack Cates started the Bucks in 2003 and played two exhibition games against the iNWFL's West Plains Cowboys.  The following year, the iNWFL was in rebellion under Chuck Love's leadership and the Bucks headed over the mountains to play in the Northwest Football League rather than join the eastern teams in what seemed to be an imploding league.  Agreeing to a $10,000 buy-in contract with the NWFL, Apple Valley began league play with high hopes after dispatching their first NWFL opponent of the season.
 
The Bucks roster proved to be as competitive as any western Washington roster as they stayed in each game until a series of forfeits ended the season.  The Multnomah County Buccaneers did not show for their scheduled game in Wenatchee and the following week, NWFL commissioner Ron Baines forced the Bucks to forfeit the season finale to the Bengals for having not completely paid the $10,000 contract in full prior to the final game.  Five Bucks earned all-league honors following the season.
 
That would be the end of the Apple Valley Bucks as the NWFL planned to enforce the full payment of the 2004 contract before allowing the Bucks onto the schedule for 2005.

Coach Paul Preston and the former Bucks would reorganize in September of 2004 under a new banner in the eastern Washington-based Evergreen Football League as the Wenatchee Valley Rams beginning a 14-year run as 6-time league champions with Mickey White assuming the head coaching mantle under Daniel Shaefer's off-field leadership.  The Evergreen Football League was organized under Jerrid Edgington and Greg Piper as a replacement for the Inland Northwest League and most of the teams rebranded joining the EFL and adding Wenatchee Valley.

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