Slap to the face of all paintball players!!!

[taylor492]

I was flipping the channel between a couple football games today and decided to see what was on ESPN. Now if any of you have a heart condition you might want to sit down for this. They were showing the 2003 Scrabble All Star Championship. My first thought : I must be seeing things. But no sure enough they had a couple guys in heated battle over the scrabble board. I didn't get to watch much of it because i was getting a queezy stomach.

Now ive heard alot of arguments as to why paintball is not a sport, or why its not an easily televised sport. But come on Scrabble?! I thought ESPN was pushing the limits with the Jump Rope competitions but this is ridiculous. At least in Jump Rope you break a sweat. Anyways, i was wondering what everyone's thoughts were on this?

[Steelrat]

Scrabble rocks! I like to have people over to watch the tournaments on TV. We get pretty wild, shouting stuff like "Go for the triple word score!" and "Ref, check that, that words not in the dictionary!"

[Benfica4ever]

Wow.
i am at a lose of words for this.
how do you put scrablle on tv!!!!!?!?!?!?

[Cryer]

Originally posted by Steelrat
Scrabble rocks! I like to have people over to watch the tournaments on TV. We get pretty wild, shouting stuff like "Go for the triple word score!" and "Ref, check that, that words not in the dictionary!"

LOL!!!....

Thats good...

I'd like to see Risk championships...
and monopoly

[shartley]

[taylor492]

i think when ESPN thinks they can make more money airing scrabble on TV rather than paintball i consider that a slap to the face.

[LaW]

As far as that kind of stuff, I love to watch poker oh well scrabble wouldn't be too bad....

[Mag Master 04]

poo on ESPN...thine heathans

[taylor492]

Yeah i kinda enjoyed watching poker but cmon scrabble?

[Wrathchild]

ESPN sucks, period. Espn2 is decent sometimes, but not often. They are usually showing a re-run of the 1999 X-games or some other Skating/BMX event that no one really watches. But hey, if they want to NOT make money, it is their decision... Skateboarders have a worse reputation than Paintballers, but paintball has "GUNS". And they think that showing paintball on TV will make little kids go buy Brass Eagle Samurai's from Kmart or Walmart and go shoot each others' eyes out.

[LaW]

Paintball is not THAT great to watch in video form if your not a die hard fan of the sport, thats the problem

[jayel579]

yo what about the spelling bee? ESPN shows that too, and gets hi-lights on sportscenter

[gamarada717]

Yeah, they haven't figured out how to televise paintball really. It's like soccer was 30 years ago. They didn't realise that the only good view was one from way in the air so you could see everything. They'll find a good way someday to show it though.

[shartley]

Originally posted by taylor492
i think when ESPN thinks they can make more money airing scrabble on TV rather than paintball i consider that a slap to the face.

[Ov3rmind]

It's like everyone forgot the whole NPPL ESPN legal squabble that happened years ago. ESPN knows about paintball, and they would like nothing more than for it to die. Televised paintball lies in Fox Sports at this point, and I'll be glad to watch it on there.