One of the highly decorated 9-man teams that made the switch to 11-man Pacific Northwest Football League play in 2019, The Skallywags had been Nineman League Champions in 2016. 
 
The Skallywags were expected to be one of the top contenders in 2019 for the PNFL crown and looked it right out of the gate with a 61-0 smashing of the Crook County Mountain Men led by former Portland Monarch and Oregon Outlaws All-League quarterback Phil DuPont, and then a tight loss to perennial contender Washington Sentinels.  After a win over the Outlaws, the oars missed the water, and Salem lost four straight games getting knocked out of playoff contention.
 
Former Vancouver Venom coach Chris Robertson headed up the coaching staff as the 2020 season opened with the Tri City Rage (Kennewick, WA) coming to town and stopping Salem 35-13 in non-league action.  The next week, Covid 19 scares crossed the country and the State of Oregon shut down all sporting events ending the PNFL season before it could get going.   This proved to be the nail in the Skallywags coffin as a franchise.
 
A group of former Skallywags along with other players from around the Salem area banded together during the continuing 2021 Covid lock downs in Oregon to play the Emerald City Bills calling themselves the "Spartans" for one game before Oregon cracked down again and fields and gatherings were suspended.

The Skallywags would be one of the many casualties to the lockdown orders and did not return to action, and by 2025 only one team represented Oregon on the semi-pro fields, that being the I-5 Cobras.

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