Team was founded in 1971 primarily by Wayne Kakela, Lee Doucette and Van Fleckenstine with a bunch of locals as players - put together a couple of games and played in the Denver Barbarians 7s. 1973 was the first Steamboat Springs hosted Tournament (called the SSRFC Invitational that year). It was renamed the CowPie starting in 1974 because rodeo livestock got on the field the Saturday night of the 1973 tournament and left their calling cards. Had to shovel it off Sunday morning.