The Warriors were started by Kevin Frank in 2009 as an expansion team to the Cascade Football League.  Frank served as the defensive coordinator for the Tacoma Invaders in 2008.
After much hoopla and a 2-0 start to the season, the Warriors were brought down to reality with a pasting by the Seattle Stallions and finished the season 3-5 but was awarded a CFL Playoff spot where 6 of the 9 members qualified.  The Warriors upset the Bears in the first round of the playoffs 8-7 after losing the previous week to close out the regular season.

Controversy swirled stemming from that playoff game and the following game as the Warriors had rostered players from the "pro" Tacoma Cobras early in the season.  Even though they had not played with the Warriors, a loophole in the CFL bylaws allowed the use of the players in the playoff victory.  The Stallions game was protested when the host team failed to provide appropriate game officials and after an 1 1/2 delay, officials from another area were brought in.  With a little over 8 minutes remaining, the stadium lights were shut off at the 11 PM curfew ending the game.  The league upheld the protest and rescheduled the game for the following week.  After jumping the hoops to get the game rescheduled, Warriors management decided not to play the remaining 8 minutes of the game when it was learned some players would not be available having returned to the Cobras and Pierce County Bengals.

The Warriors experiment expired with a whimper as Tacoma forfeited three games to start the 2010 season when the team informed opponents they had no uniforms.  Bigger problems were on the horizon and finally after agonizing through most of April and May including the fracture of the CFL, partly due to the Warrior situation, team officials called it quits May 14th, 2010. 

Players would attempt to merge with the Tacoma Invaders calling themselves the "Washington Trojans" but it never happened.

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