Slap to the face of all paintball players!!!

[Cryer]

Originally posted by shartley
...you are NOT paintball. Heck, do you even own a business in the paintball industry?...

Not to fuel fire, or sound like a jerk, but I am forced to disagree with you there, SHartley... I think he, the player, is paintball. More so than any business owner out there. He, and other players like him, are the reason that you, and others like DYE and JT, are in business to begin with.

On the other hand, I agree with you in that paintball is [relatively] new and has yet to come into its own. In time, we will have our coveted and glorious estate alongside those champions of Scrabble on ESPN. How great shall be the day when all ballers may rejoice and sing in chorus: Alleluia!

[rx2]

I just have to say that, if you play Scrabble in my house, it is a sport.

[Konigballer]

try playing it against jews. My girlfriends jewish and I've played with her family, they use all these yiddish words and reap in the points. They've probably cheated me and I just did'nt know it, yiddish is seriously the most nonsensical sounding, looking language ever Scrabble is the devil and hates me, thats all I know....

[shartley]

Originally posted by Cryer
Not to fuel fire, or sound like a jerk, but I am forced to disagree with you there, SHartley... I think he, the player, is paintball. More so than any business owner out there. He, and other players like him, are the reason that you, and others like DYE and JT, are in business to begin with.

On the other hand, I agree with you in that paintball is [relatively] new and has yet to come into its own. In time, we will have our coveted and glorious estate alongside those champions of Scrabble on ESPN. How great shall be the day when all ballers may rejoice and sing in chorus: Alleluia!

[Strider]

Originally posted by rx2
I just have to say that, if you play Scrabble in my house, it is a sport.

Jepordy (sp?) in my inlaws is a sport.

[lopxtc]

Didnt ESPN also have the Magic the Gathering world championships on at one time ...

Now there is a game I just never though would make TV ...

Aaron

[Cryer]

Originally posted by lopxtc
Didnt ESPN also have the Magic the Gathering world championships on at one time ...

Now there is a game I just never though would make TV ...

Aaron

...There's a game that I thought would never make it past the store shelves.

It's basically Pokemon for pimply highschool aged kids...
This one guy back in highschool was trying to get me into it... He kept talking to me about the characters like he thought I knew what he was saying... :o

I didn't hang out with him much longer...

[Wrathchild]

Magic the gathering... It has been around for at least 10 years... But anyways... they show poker on ESPN... That is most definately Not a sport.

[RoadDawg]

Originally posted by 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.

Who watches Soccer?

On topic: I caught that the other day and almost keeled over laughing.

[Rhinopkc]

Originally posted by RoadDawg


Who watches Soccer?

Everyone except us Americans, I intend to do my part to keep it that way!

I don't think paintball on tv will catch up for a while, because fat, old dudes didn't play it in high school and can't watch it to escape to "the good ole days". I prefer to play my sport instead of watch it, and as I turn into a fat, old dude, I will continue to play my sport, not retreat to couch and armchair QB it.

[gibby]

Hrm...showing Scrabble on TV instead of paintball...oh well, such is life. But I think it's not an issue of who is or isn't paintball but how much a person lives paintball.

Like any sport, it's a lifestyle. When you're not playing paintball, you're wishing your out playing, holding your marker around the house pretending to shoot at targets, snap shooting behind the door way, and for those who are really passionate about it, watching it on TV would be a nice addition to our daily routines.

I think this is a classic example of a person who loves the sport and enjoys playing it and watching it. There's a lot to be learned by watching other players/teams play. It's like watching basketball and seeing your favorite team make their plays now how the other team responds. Learning how players respond or react to certain moves...same goes for paintball and the players of the game.

Am I upset that they don't show the sport of paintball on TV? Eh...no, not at all. But it would be cool if they did. Many ideas for paintball shows can be had instead of just watching tournaments. How to tech specific equipment, tactics, new technology, previews, reviews, interviews of players and innovators, the history of paintball, etc.

But oh well, until that day comes...I'll just sit around the place, surfing AO and other sites, holding my markers and irritating everyone with it...LOL!

[Cryer]

Originally posted by gibby
Hrm...showing Scrabble on TV instead of paintball...oh well, such is life. But I think it's not an issue of who is or isn't paintball but how much a person lives paintball.

Like any sport, it's a lifestyle. When you're not playing paintball, you're wishing your out playing, holding your marker around the house pretending to shoot at targets, snap shooting behind the door way, and for those who are really passionate about it, watching it on TV would be a nice addition to our daily routines.

I think this is a classic example of a person who loves the sport and enjoys playing it and watching it. There's a lot to be learned by watching other players/teams play. It's like watching basketball and seeing your favorite team make their plays now how the other team responds. Learning how players respond or react to certain moves...same goes for paintball and the players of the game.

Am I upset that they don't show the sport of paintball on TV? Eh...no, not at all. But it would be cool if they did. Many ideas for paintball shows can be had instead of just watching tournaments. How to tech specific equipment, tactics, new technology, previews, reviews, interviews of players and innovators, the history of paintball, etc.

But oh well, until that day comes...I'll just sit around the place, surfing AO and other sites, holding my markers and irritating everyone with it...LOL!

And here I am thinkin I'm the only one who snapshoots and bunkers family members in the house...

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by Cryer
It's basically Pokemon for pimply highschool aged kids...

the pokemon card game is a knockoff of magic, not the other way around. i don't play but i thought i'd point that out.

[kevdupuis]

Originally posted by Muzikman
Just keep it up and you too could be crowned the World Champion Bagger

What's that, a one bagger, a two bagger, and the winner gets to wake up with the coyote.

[Cryer]

"...the chicken or the egg?"

Originally posted by MantisMag


the pokemon card game is a knockoff of magic, not the other way around. i don't play but i thought i'd point that out.

Either way, I still think its a complete waste of time