Rugby Hats

Rugby players are one of the most devoted tribes in club sport, and these hats speak their language. USA Rugby counts more than 130,000 members, with college the largest segment at over 32,000, across roughly 1,200 high school, 900 college and 700 senior club teams. RUGBY is the plain badge. GIVE BLOOD PLAY RUGBY is the sport's blunt recruiting slogan, already sold on tees. RUGBY IS A HOOLIGAN'S GAME PLAYED BY GENTLEMEN is a variant of a saying attributed to Arthur Tedder and in print since 1961, normally worded with ruffian instead of hooligan. I'M NOT FAT I'M A PROP and I'M A FORWARD RUNNING IS FOR THE BACKS poke at the pack, where, as Ian Foster put it, props eat the most food and take the longest to get up. I PASS BACKWARDS TO GO FORWARDS is the one-line rulebook joke. I PLAY RUGBY FOR THE SONGS and THIRD HALF IS MY BEST HALF belong to the clubhouse: the third half is the post-match social where the home team hosts the visitors with a meal and cold beer, and club singing there goes back to British clubs in the mid-twentieth century. RUGBY SCARING THE NORMALS SINCE 1823 is another line already proven on tees. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. GIVE BLOOD PLAY RUGBY and THIRD HALF IS MY BEST HALF each come in two colorways.