The Kodiaks were formed in 1997 from the remnants of the Bozeman Cardinals and Bozeman Wolverines which played in the InterMountain Contact Football League from 1993-1996.  Pat Dabro was announced as the first coach in May of '97.
 
The South Dakota Marshalls came to Bozeman with a QB who passed for 20 of 32 for 397 yards and 5 TD's.  That QB was Kurtiss Riggs who would later go on to win 10 Indoor Football League Championships as coach of the Sioux Falls Storm.  The return trip would be forfeited along with the rest of the season, when league commissioner Gil Harris announced the Northwest Region of the AFA was going to be on hold until 1998.

Montanta State WR Kenyatte Morgan (5'6" 170) played for the Kodiaks in 1998 while sharpening his skills for a shot at the Arena Leagues and would later earn a spot with the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe after tryout with the Packers and 49ers of the NFL.  After starring for the Kodiaks he caught on with the Oregon Thunderbolts in Portland where he was spotted by Forest Dragon assistant coach James Fuller.  He returned to play for the Kodiaks again in 1999.  Morgan is the all-time leader in kick return yards in the Arena 2 League.

The Kodiaks would join the Rocky Mountain Football League for the 2000 season and after the opening two weeks failed to come off as planned, the Kodiaks took a loss to the Snake River Rebels.  Bozeman would go 5-3 before a second-round playoff loss to Utah's Wasatch Wildcats.

Recruited into an ill-fated North American Football League expansion to the west, instability ensued as the team struggled to a 3-6 season.  CEO and Quarterback Rob Dieffenbach spent six seasons as Bozeman signal caller.

Morgan would be inducted into the Greater Northwest Hall of Fame in 2023.

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