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Following the one-season ending of the
Northwest Terminators, the Inner
City Shine took the place of the Oregon-representative in the
Western Washington Alliance, formed by former
Williamette Valley Raiders, Julian and
David Littleton.
Building off that nucleus of players from the 2009
East County Blackshirts and
2010 Terminators, the 2011 Shine were able to continue the 5-2
season the Terminators posted the year before running out to a 7-3
record and bouncing the Puget Sound
Outlaws 47-0 in the first round of playoffs. A
heartbreaking defeat once again at the hands of the
Wolfpack, sent the Shine back
to Oregon and no rematch with
Bellingham for the title.
Controversy ensued almost immediately in 2012 as the WWFA scrambled
to adjust the schedule when the
Wildcats and Wolfpack folded early. The Shine lost close
non-league games to the Pacific League
Buzzards and Pro Developmental
League Cobras, before dropping
the most points in two season to the
Seattle Stallions, eventual WWFA Champions.
Winning their first game in 4 outings, the Shine had to wait nearly
a month for their next match up as the organization would be
suspended from WWFA play in midseason for undisclosed reasons, but
finished out their schedule with the teams willing to continue
playing.
The team returned to the WWFA in 2013 dropping a non-league game
again to the Tacoma Cobras, this time by a score of 77-12.
Having lost their best players to cross-town upstart
Portland Boltz, the Shine shut down
for the season.
The team would venture into Eight-Man football for the 2014 season,
winning the NW8Man League championship and bowl title in Las Vegas
in August of 2014. The team was expected to join the
Oregon-based National Nine-Man League for 2015.
The Portland Shine were announced as a member of the Northwest
Football Alliance for the 2016 season, losing to the
Washington Raptors on May 28. The
NWFA would become the Washington State Football League in 2017.
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