The Colts were started by by Tim & Chris Reynolds in 2009 as an expansion team to the Cascade Football League with a number of former players from the Valley Mustangs organization.  After the biggest blowout win in team history against the Eagles, the Colts pulled out of the July 18 game with area independent rival Pierce County Bengals.  Knocking out the Tacoma Invaders in round one of the CFL playoffs, the Colts found themselves no match for the Ravens who went on to win the CFL Championship.

An expected contender for the CFL Championship, the Colts found themselves clinging to a fractured league after the Ravens, Stallions, Thunder and Eagles pulled out to form the Western Washington Football Association.  It's hand forced, the Colts eventually committed to joining the WWFA as well.  The move was definitely a disruption as the undefeated Colts were manhandled by 20 players from Portland and lost by 13 to the Northwest Terminators, an independent team brought in to replace the folded Tacoma Warriors.
The Colts took 14 players to Las Vegas and made a valiant go against the Yuma Blitz before falling 12-8 in the Far West Bowl Classic.

With the formation of the Pacific Football League in 2011, the Colts made the jump to join the Northwest elite teams and immediately found themselves in the hunt for the inaugural PFL North crown.  Taking an overtime win at home against Yakima, South King avenged an early season loss to the Mavericks, but found themselves unable to repeat the feat in the PFL North Championship game when they fell to the Bears to bookend the 2011 season with two losses to Kitsap.

The Bears shut down operations prior to the 2012 season and the Colts looked for the open door to be their ticket to another PFL North title appearance.  However, four straight losses to open the season spelled doom for the Colts hopes as they only managed wins against independent Pierce County and a collapsing Clark County Vipers team.

2013 was again a season of high hopes as long-time minor league veteran and GNFA Hall of Famer Keith Jones, tired of the Tacoma Cobras experiment was brought in to coach the Colts.  He brought with him other former Cobras coaches and expected to sign on a large number of the formerly "professional" Cobras stars in pursuit of the Colts first championship.  The season was a flip from the 2012 season with the Colts at 7-2 entering the playoffs.  However, Coach Jones would be bitten by his former squad and long-time Colts nemesis, the Stallions.  Seattle bounced the Colts from the playoffs in the opening round.

Out for revenge, the 2014 season opened with the Stallions and a win for the Colts, but a solid run would be derailed first by the Bulldogs and then by the Stallions.  The Colts would have to find a way to beat the Stallions in the semi-finals of the playoffs, which by a 22-16 margin they did.  Ironically, it was the same score only flipped, that cost the Colts it's first ever championship as the Portland Raiders took the title.  2014 featured a new gunslinger in the Northwest as the Colts brought in Adam Kruse at quarterback acconting for 22 touchdowns, after having played for the Cobras (2009) and overseas.  Kruse would go on to win Player of the Year honors in 2015 piloting the Seattle Stallions to the GNFA Championship.

The Colts shut down following the season with a record of 36-22, soon to be replaced by the South Sound Nighthawks. 

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