paintball on ABC [Archive] - Paintball Forums

cockermongol

11-18-2003, 08:31 PM

Hey I just saw paintball on According to Jim on ABC and I wanted to know if anyone else saw it and what everyone thought of Jim taking off his goggles during the game.

nerdcore

11-18-2003, 08:35 PM

abc? you mean paintball was mentioned on BROADCAST television??

well taking off goggles anywhere near a field is a shame-shame and is almost immediately followed by a ref yelling PUT YOUR MASK ON, PLAYER!!

can'tthink of1

11-18-2003, 08:51 PM

The funny part was most of my family saw the episode, and now thinks thats what paintball is like. The other funny part was that those weren't masks at all. I thought it made me look like a weirdo in front of my family. Oh well I just ordered my Tribal Mephisto so its all good!;)

Wait no, I still need nitro, arg, more money. Now I'll look really crazy for spending $600 on paintball(tribal-415 crossfire-180). GReat, just dandy....

Jeezer

11-18-2003, 09:00 PM

What happened on that episode? Can anyone give a summary?

xIrish

11-19-2003, 08:15 AM

Well, I think it was paintball. Though I was surprised to see it on an ABC show, the way they represented it was terrible. Some people only wore safety-goggles (which I've never seen), they'd shoot their own teammates, repeatedly take their masks/goggles off during play (One person, Dana I think, even got shot with her mask off while she was doing something with her makeup). Several people were also shot from within 5 feet from each other--and they acted as if it didn't hurt and was no biggie. I was very disappointed...

i like tictacs

11-19-2003, 08:17 AM

See my thoughts here.

http://pbreview.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=185806

xIrish

11-19-2003, 08:18 AM

i kind of caused some confusion with my thread. my apologies

DaSpEcSter

11-19-2003, 03:24 PM

I saw it....basicly jim wanted to get back at his wife...because she wanted to do stuff together...so he said fine..let's do this.....look like an awesome field..but they were like shooting at each other without there glasses(should be a mask) on....it was cheesy...but it was pretty funny.....

You'd have lots of time to watch tv if your leg was broke in 2 places!

ScotiaRebel

11-19-2003, 03:34 PM

the only reason they wern't wearing real masks was becasue for the ssake of the show they couldn't
you wouldn't know who was talking to who or who was talking, but i did obsearve that all the extras on that field were wereing sufficient eye protection