THE VIKING TANKARD SERIES represented one of the MCAA's  best intra-conference rivalries...though no one, including the head coaches, is exactly sure why.
It all started one night at a college night club hotspot in Maryland following the 2004 Springfield Tech win at Maryland. The two head coaches were mixing it up "Larry Eustachy style" with the college kids, when rumor has it, Maryland Coach Eddie Mays challenged Springfield Tech Head Coach Chris Franz to a game of "butt darts". Mays claimed that the winner of this contest would prove who the better coach was.
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The next morning, both coaches awoke on the bar room floor in a pool of each other's vomit; a single, spectacular silver tankard lay between them, filled with quarters. Neither could remember who won the game of "butt darts", but Franz declared that because his team had won the game, he be allowed to keep the tankard for his trophy case. Mays was able to steal the quarters from the Tankard before leaving the bar, making off with over $100 in butt-juice stained change.
The tankard was the trophy for this rivalry game, with the loser responsible for filling it with quarters for the winning coach's bar tab.
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