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Honors
Toby Seim, 2010 PDFL Offensive MVP
Cody Oaks, 2010 PDFL QB of the Year
Calvin Williams, 2010 PDFL Co-Rookie of the Year
David Wells, 2010 PDFL Community Player of the Year
Brian Young, 2010 PDFL Owner of the Year
Brian Young 2011 WWFA Coach of the Year
All-League
Justin Bronn, G - 2010 All-PDFL
David Sinex, T - 2010 All-PDFL
Kyle Amaya, LB - 2010 All-PDFL
Brandon O'Dore, TE - 2010 All-PDFL
Toby Seim, WR - 2010 All-PDFL
Cody Oakes, QB - 2010 All-PDFL
DJ Butler, S - 2010 All-PDFL
Van Vetch, RB - 2010 All-PDFL
David Wells, C - 2010 All-PDFL
Kelly Fee, DT - 2010 All-PDFL
Joey Joshua, DE - 2010 All-PDFL
Chris Awumbu, T - 2010 All-PDFL
Fay Bursell, LB - 2010 All-PDFL
Az Beardon, CB - 2010 All-PDFL
Calvin Williams, RB - 2010 All-PDFL
Troy Stevenson, 2010 Hon Men
Jason Cunningham, 2010 Hon Men
Joel Shiolet, 2010 Hon Men
All-America
On the heels of the success of the Whatcom County
Raiders franchise, Tom Abbott decided to try a "professional" venture
with his football team and began the process of building a "pro" league.
Originally slated to be the Next Level Football League, the financial
support wasn't in place and few team owners would throw their money into
such a risky venture. By teaming with the owners of the Tacoma
Cobras and Oregon Thunderbolts, they were able to establish the
Professional Developmental Football League as a semi-pro precursor to a
league that would "pay" players and coaches with hopes of attracting the
best athletes away from other area semi-pro teams.
The Blitz, mainly former Raiders and some Western
Washington University football players who found themselves without a
team after the school dropped it's program, opened up it's inaugural
season on June 20 destroying the Pierce County Bengals.
The Blitz finished 5-3 with all of the losses
coming at the hands of the Cobras including a 36-31 loss in the PDFL
Championship.
The 2010 season was virtually a mirror of 2009 with
the Cobras running through the PDFL unchallenged. The Blitz gave
up over 44 points all in all three meetings with Tacoma. Nearly
all of the Blitz starters earned All-League in what was virtually only
three teams worth of choices.
2011 saw the Blitz shift to the WWFA as the PDFL continued to crumble
and Bellingham looked for more stable ground.
Following an April 30 "upset" at the hands of the Panthers, Bellingham
reeled off 11 consecutive victories with only the Shine putting up much
of a fight along the way. The newly crowned WWFA champions would
be invited to the Far West Football Alliance "National Championship" in
Vegas, but it was announced that a shortage of coaches, players and
funding, the trip would not be possible considering the team had just
been to Vegas in October for a match up with the Wild West League
All-Stars.
The setback seemingly led to the downfall of the organization as it did
not return for 2012, while across-town the
Bellingham Bulldogs rounded up
players in what in essence became a merger of the Blitz and Bulldog
operations, and flipped their 2011 results. |
