The Vancouver Posse were formed when Bill Booth decided to step away from the Cowlitz County Cavaliers.  Unable to fully do so, Larry Jobe and Booth in essence changed the name of the Cavaliers to the Posse and were able to recruit some Thunderbolt players, most notably all-leaguers Antonio Sparrow and Nate Griffin.  The Posse appeared to be the team to beat through the regular season, even winning a double-header on Independence Day until they were upended in the final two games of '98 by the Bengals and Thunderbolts in the first round of the playoffs.
 
Following the '97 season, many of the Posse players returned to the Thunderbolts, as Booth double dipped running both the Posse and the Washington Cavaliers who were playing as an independent team for the '98 season.  The Posse lost 3 times to the Thunderbolts and were smacked by Booth's own Cavaliers 35-0.  This closed out the franchise as Shay Dean and the Vancouver players joined up with the some Cavaliers for one season as the Columbia Cougars before forming the Multnomah County Buccaneers out of Portland in 2000.

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