Navy Blue and Kelly Green....and mud brown - St Louis Ruggerfest 1994

While the only way to understand the story fully is to hear is straight from the horse's mouth, those who have spoken to Scoop Thornton hear this is how our club got its stripes.:

Before a match during the earliest days of the club, Scoop came along a jersey vendor. Now in those days, there was no internet, and the old crank phone was on the fritz, so he knew he was going to need some jerseys right then and there.  As luck would have it, the vendor had ordered some jerseys for another club, but they weren't happy with the final product: Navy Blue and Kelly Green Stripes.  

Scoop, being the wily old horse-trader he is, saw an opportunity.  The details of the next part of the story vary, depending on who tells it and how much he had to drink before he started, but the end result is the same.  Scoop bought Springfield's first set of jersey's for a steal, and we had our colors.

Now, every Springfield boy knows that putting on the colors means something to everyone who has put on those same colors in the past 30+ years.