The Lancaster Bittermen Vocational Football Team was originally conceived by collection of Western New York construction workers, migrant laborers and convicted criminals who did not wish to return to their respective jobs, fields, or cells after serving as scabs during the 1987 professional football strike.  At the time calling themselves the Lancaster Champions, the founding members rallied around the ideals of determination, pride and their indomitable spirit.  The intervening 15 years, however, were more difficult than anyone could have imagined.  The team struggled to find opponents and establish a fan base.  In the mid nineties, the Toronto Argonauts snuck out at halftime before a crowd of 16 largely oblivious spectators.  The team’s promotional department made the ill-advised decision to sign a 10-year exclusive contract with Genny Cream Ale.

In 1998, the Tuscorora Indian reservation successfully sued the Champions, claiming that the stadium in which they played was Indian property.  The team was consequently forced to relocate to the dilapidated "Jimmy Griffin" Municipal Stadium located at Love Canal.  Rumors even swirled that the team might be moved to Florida so that they might play for senior citizens nostalgic for the North.  Throughout these disappointments and humiliations, the team miraculously failed to fold.  Nevertheless, morale was low and had nothing changed, an end to the organization was just a matter of time.

Historians, should they ever take an interest, would probably agree that the conclusions reached during a team meeting late one night in 2001 were what saved the team.  Acknowledging that the lofty principles the founding members had strived for were dead ends, the players abandoned their pride and spirit and threw all their effort into resentment, renaming themselves "The Bittermen."  Fans, identifying with the team’s feeling of having been cheated in life, began to turn out.  In 2002, misunderstood millionaire genius "Dave" recognized the marketability of organized antipathy and purchased the team.  Shortly thereafter, "Dave" received an offer to be an expansion team for the Scuffle.  Now this assortment of football-playing humans has been given a chance to showcase their nihilistic wrath on the big stage.