Profanity-Getting paintball accepted?

[tony3]

Well, tonight got me thinking. I had a baseball tonight. A kid on the other team got called out on a close play and when he was walking in the dugout, he threw he helment and yelled the d word. I would say it, even though it isnt blocked by the filter, but I know the mods would hurt me. The umpire stops the game, to talk to the kid about it. This league is 15-18 year olds btw. The ump is saying that they don't accept that language in the league and the kid continues to argue and swears up a storm and eventually gets thrown out and suspended for the rest of the season for some other questionable things he said.

This got me thinking about paintball. Swearing is against the rules no doubt. If I was a parent and had a young kid at a paintball tourney, hell I'd have ear muffs on them the language is so bad. Definitely not the kind of stuff I want to see on TV. This isn't even swearing under your breath, it is yelling out swears. Or even warm up circles where everyone is yelling swears and the like. If I was an outside television company considering paintball, it would be hard to air with all the swears people throw around on it. I personally think swearing should be considered a light note with a warning, if someone says something quietly then don't make a big deal about it. How about yelling, swears. If anyone has the 300 fps they have about 5 clips where guys are screaming the f word after they got shot out. Stuff like that imo, should be a 1 for 1. Just another thing holding us back from major televsion and acceptence. Lets compare my baseball game to paintball. The kid swore once and got a strict warning for a not that offensive swear. In paintball if someone said the stuff this kid said over the 10 minute "discussion" no one would think twice about it.

[Skoad]

most fields around here don't allow it, it'll get you a warning, then you sit out for the day

[Digits]

tournys here its a 1 for 1 if you swear

[ScatterPlot]

Swearing has no place in my book, especially paintball. However it is very hard to enforce rules like this, since most of the places I've been to have had refs that do it too. Doesn't help the image of paintball at all, and it should definately be penalized.

[hAppy]

alot of people use profanity at the wrong time, for others it just slips out
i noticed that sometimes i might say something after i get tagged

but uglier cases are when some guy from the opposing field screams "#!$#@ get that mutha &(&90&^* piece of (&^&) you frigin &^$*(" now thats bad profanity, i don't approve of that. it just makes the game look unfriendly, and almost hateful.

[Carbon]

There are no such things as bad words, just innapropriate times to say them. Honestly if i ran a field i would have a no swearing allowed policy.

[Target Practice]

I must admit, I am a curser It's just force of habit I guess. I play at a private field, so it really isn't a problem (or at least no one has told me 'bout it yet... ) Anyhoo, I'm not a real hardcore swearer, might let a "S***!" or a "S.O.B!" out every once and a while.

I don't think it is appropriate in the tourney scene because that is the "public" face of paintball. But hey, in the outlaw and kickaround games, it's just part of the sport. Just like in a pickup game of baseball, or a friendly round of golf.

*Hits fire alarm to get a head start on the flames*

[RetroEclipseMan]

Yeah, it's a 25pt penalty in the local tournies around here if you're caught swearing during a game, and that's 25pts per swear word. Honestly, I don't see the lanquage being a huge reason paintball hasn't been accepted into the full mainstream yet.I think a lot of it just has to do with how paintball was viewed in the past, and that was more as a war game.

Anyways.look at the kind of lanquage that is present in other professional sports. People just get too carried away and let their emotions get to them if a bad call is made or an error committed.Is it right, no, but it does happen. Heck, tenis players even argue bad calls and slam raquets and that's supposed to be a "gentlemans" game isn't it? If paintball does become mainstream, as in finally getting tons of TV coverage then I think there needs to more penalties thrown in for cussing. I'm sure a team won't be too happy if they max another team but get all their points wiped away from a teamate arguing a call and throwing in a few cusswords. I'm sure they'll learn real quick. But until rules like that are strictly inforced then I don't see anything changing.

[stondroopy]

hehe i swear like a sailor,but not around young kids and women and i try not to swear at someone in anger.But there are those times ya catch one in the junk and a few discriptive words slip out

[Bulldog]

I think swearing at someone directly, and just swearing out loud are two entirely different things. One is hostile and aggressive. The other I could care less about.

[logamus]

Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...


that being said, i do try to watch my mouth around kids and women. but if i let a f bomb slip out, i dont cry about it either.

[shartley]

Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech...


that being said, i do try to watch my mouth around kids and women. but if i let a f bomb slip out, i dont cry about it either.

[brianlojeck]

Do you really think TV would care about swearing in the sport?

Ever wonder why the mic systems are so good in NFL football you can hear the coach fart, yet you never hear them curse?

Ever wonder why the TV mic never picks up the conversation between an MLB batter and the catcher?

Ever see a Shaq Oneil post-game interview?

TV is wonderful at getting around curses. I dont' think they'd require much more then a mild improvement.

I'm not saying it's right, or proper, or that I support it (although I did grow up in NY, cursing isn't such a big thing to me...), just wondering if TV really cares...

[-=Squid=-]

Who cares if paintball is "accepted" or not?

[tony3]

I'd like to tell someone I play paintball tournies and not have them roll their eyes and walk away personally.