Storyboard UIView Objects Not Instantiating

I am working on a project with Swift and Storyboards. It's a conversion project from a traditional IB and Objective-C project. I am having an issue with a UITableView instantiating when the view is loaded. Let me explain.

The project is a navigation project. Here is an overview of the Storyboard.

The Storyboard's first viewController is HomeViewController and is a landing page that displays general info. The next VC is called FeedViewController shows a number of RSS feeds. You can see an expanded screen shot of the NavigationController, HomeViewController and FeedViewController in the picture below.

My problem is that I can't get the tableView to Instantiate. I first checked to make sure that my tableView was connected as an outlet and that the dataSource and delegate properties were connected. You can see this in the pic below.

In my FeedViewController class I have an Outler property called feedsTableView. You can see the declaration in the code below.

class FeedViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate, FLODataHandlerDelegate 
{ 
     var floView : FLOViewController?
     var dataHandler : FLODataHandler?

          var refreshControl : UIRefreshControl? 

     @IBOutlet var feedsTableView: UITableView! 
     @IBOutlet weak var backgroundImage: UIImageView!

In the HomeViewController I have a FeedViewController property that I intend to use to gain access to FeedViewController's feedsTableView.

class HomeViewController: UIViewController, FLODataHandlerDelegate, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate 
{
     var feedViewController : FeedViewController? 
     var dataHandler : FLODataHandler?

When HomeViewController's viewDidLoad() method is called I start the dataHandler - which instantiates the FeedViewController - and set it to my FeedViewController property.

override func viewDidLoad() 
{ 
     super.viewDidLoad()
     let recognizer = UISwipeGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: Selector("goToNext")) 
     recognizer.direction = UISwipeGestureRecognizerDirection.Left 
     self.view.addGestureRecognizer(recognizer) 
     self.setUpDataHandler() 
}

setUpDataHandler()

func setUpDataHandler() 
{ 
     let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil) 
     let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("FeedViewController") as! FeedViewController 
     self.feedViewController = vc 
}

I also have a fail safe that if someone were to go to the FeedViewController before the setUpDataHandler() method is called then I instantiate FeedViewController here as well.

func goToNext() 
{ 
     let feedVC = self.storyboard!.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("FeedViewController") as! FeedViewController 
     self.feedViewController = feedVC 
     self.navigationController!.pushViewController(self.feedViewController!, animated: true) 
}

However the feedsTableView is not getting instantiated. In the viewDidLoad() method of FeedViewController I attempt to add the feedsTableView to a UIRefreshController.

override func viewDidLoad() 
{ 
     super.viewDidLoad() 
     self.refreshControl = UIRefreshControl() 
     self.refreshControl!.addTarget(self, action: "refreshInvoked:state:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.ValueChanged) 
     self.feedsTableView.addSubview(self.refreshControl!) 
}

When the app runs I get the following error.

"fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value"

The image below shows were this is called. It's the viewDidLoad() of the FeedViewController. As you can see in the picture I even tried instantiating the feedsTableView before adding it to the UIRefreshController and I still get the error.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Take care,

Jon