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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 WWFA,
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 build off
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.
Controversy ensued almost immediately as the WWFA scrambled to adjust
the schedule when the Wildcats and Wolfpack folded early.
The Shine lost close non-league games to the PFL Buzzards and PDFL
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.
The team would venture into Eight-Man football for the 2014 season,
winning a title in Las Vegas in August of 2014.
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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