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Following the shut down of the 0-7 King County Jaguars by Harold Metcalf after the 1995 season, many of the team members reconvened as the Federal Way 49ers. The team embarked on an aggressive schedule with a 16-game slate that covered every weekend after the 4th of July through to the week before Halloween. Only the Oregon Thunderbolts would play more games in a season two years later when they kicked off 18 times. The first half of the season was a literal win-one-lose-one enroute to a 6-6 record before stringing three wins together that included the rubber-match with the Pierce County Bengals in the playoffs, Steve Thorton putting the game out of reach with a 33-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter to go up 22-6. The 49ers rode the wave into the PFL North championship game losing to the Jets who claimed their fourth consecutive league title.
From Gregory O'Neal (November 2024):
The newly formed team for the Pacific Football League which
was to combine the NWFL with a league in California and create
the Pacific Football League (PFL). This would create South
Divisions from the south from California and teams from the
North Divisions from Oregan and Wahington states. This was to
create more of an NFL minor league systems from former players
and coaches of the NFL and NCAA.
The owner of the Federal Way 49ers got a few great sponsors to fund a new team and the owner and Head Coach Gregy O'Neal was a former player of the Pierce County Bengals and South King County Jaguars awaiting to be signed by potential NFL teams, decided to create a tm and be a part of the teams in California from former ties with the team in Bellflower California and develop a minor league system for the NFL since it didn't have any. After the first year making history to be the first team to reach the championship game in its first year, Mr. O'Neal decided that the only way to make a successful Minor League for the NFL was to break away from the NWFL and create a separate league to take place of the North Division of the PFL and to create something bigger than just football on Saturday Night and the southern division was in agreement with this. After having several meetings with other owners, the North Division had 5 owners on board, but after a few weeks that number diminished to 3 and even though Mr. O'Neal had a first meeting with players at their home field to conduct spring training, Mr. O'Neal decided not to pursue any more seasons as the Federal Way 49ers due to the expense of just playing football on Saturday nights without any sort of financial gain and lack of serious interest. Mr. O'Neal hired Guy Gabriel as Asst. Head Coach and Offense Line Coach. Gary Carpenter was Hired as Defensive Coach. The Federal Way 49ers with their many ties to the NWFL from former players and coaches, recruited players from other teams of the NWFL and created an All-Star team that should've never lost a game. But during the middle of the season Coach O'Neal who was also the Offensive Coordinator was suspended from the field for 3 games for no valid reason and the team was never the same after that. With all of the turmoil in the league, the Federal Way 49ers still managed to have revenge from Mr. O'Neal's former Coach/Owner Pierce County Bengals and the person who kept him from NFL Super Bowl possibilities by not making available videos of Mr. O'Neal's punting during the year of 1994 in which Mr. O'Neal was #2 in the country out of 330 Semi Pro teams in the country and made honors. In 1994, both the San Franciso 49ers and the San Diego Chargers asked for film in which Mr. O'Neal asked his Coach/Owner for and would not for whatever reasons, wouldn't allow Mr. O'Neal to have. Coach Guy Gabriel also played for the Pierce County Bengals and this is why it was considered a revenge game. A player stole all of the game tapes of the Federal Way 49ers and Mr. O'Neal lost his house, his family with no appreciation from players, coaches or owners. Mr. O'Neal and owners from the South Division had many sponsors and were ready to set up sharing of sponsors and pay players, but after so many problems with players, Coaches and Owners, Mr. O'Neal decided to just leave football all together and never coached again, but did some private tutoring and became a millionaire in Real Estate Investing.
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