TV show displaying horrible image for paintball

[Canadian Bacon]

I was watching the sitcom tv show "According to Jim" one day. The episode that I was watching had something to do about paintball and this was a recent recording of the show. You see quite a bit of paintball action in the show. Now the worst part is that they were only wearing working style glasses and ski googles as face protection. They shoot from 10 feet and closer and sometimes shooting those who weren't wearing any face protection. And you also see one kid shooting his gun and theres CO2 coming out showing the guns were in working order.

I hate people and things that display a very bad image for paintball. This doesn't let the sport grow. People who don't know what paintball is, they see this and think its ultra dangerous and wouldn't even bother to look into it further.

I'm to write to the responsible of the show to tell them whats right from wrong and I hope some of you do that too.

You can write a letter to this address:
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
Phone number: (818) 460-7477

or e-mail them to this address: netaudr@abc.com

Thank you for your time and I know this will help the future of paintballing!

[mr.z fury]

same here .

[flyingeagle3]

(not trying to be a dick)Canadian if your that worried about paintballs name why dont you put on commericals and seminars to show how SAFE paintball is. I know what everyone is thinking right now. They are thinking flyingeagle doesnt care about paintballs name. Wrong I care, stuff like that wont hold our sport back. Think of skatebording and how big of a sport that is, its one of the biggest event in the x-games. Although people on tv such as the old jack@ss show would give the image that skatebording is nothing but troubled kids messing up companies steps and hand rails and what not.

If its anything thats hold this sport backs its prices and the availability of field that players can play at.

Currently there are about 8.9 million people that play paintball. But how many of them can afford to play every weekend, or afford to travel the country? Not many since this sport is dominated by young adults and teens. So this eleminates ALOT of the 8 million who refuse to work long hours every week just to afford tournaments and practice. And plus if you were lucky enough to have a good paying job you prolly wouldnt get a week off every mouth to travel around to tournaments

Your other most popular sports such as baseball, football, soccor, etc to dont require 50 bucks everythime your team wants to get together and practice. All they require is time. So just think is TV to blame for our sport not being as big as we want it to be?

[GranDream]

Every time paintball appears anywhere it seems to get its image ruined. So far, it has survived.

[Canadian Bacon]

Originally posted by flyingeagle3

If its anything thats hold this sport backs its prices and the availability of field that players can play at.

Currently there are about 8.9 million people that play paintball. But how many of them can afford to play every weekend, or afford to travel the country? Not many since this sport is dominated by young adults and teens. So this eleminates ALOT of the 8 million who refuse to work long hours every week just to afford tournaments and practice. And plus if you were lucky enough to have a good paying job you prolly wouldnt get a week off every mouth to travel around to tournaments


I agree but not everybody that paintballs play at fields. A big part play in any sort of forest or wooded area. All you need is your equipment, gas and about 500 rounds for 2-3 hours of play in one weekend.

I'm not that worried about paintballs image but for a big corporation such as ABC to not go in deep enough about the sport is kind of idiotic on their behalf and I'm just going to let them know that.

[flyingeagle3]

oh ok go ***** ABC out for me:)

[GranDream]

While you're writing your angry letter, can you tell them to make more new episodes of Whos Line? Unless they already do and I'm completely oblivious to it.

[titus55]

let them do that. let them display improper safety techniques. but when one day theyre flippin through the channells and painbtall is on and the see how everyone is wearing proper equipment and the rules are inforced, they will hopefully stop making shows that way. just another example of good broadcasting fending off bad tv show episodes. im sure that some day someone will realize theyre doing it all wrong...

[dog-of-Dislexia]

TV shows put people only wearing the goggles and not a full mask so that you can tell who's who. And one some show called 'According to Jim' or whatever there are probably barely any viewers so it doesn't matter.

[GranDream]

They did the same thing in King of the Hill. And in that there was also a drive by. No one seemed to care.

[Canadian Bacon]

Originally posted by GranDream
They did the same thing in King of the Hill. And in that there was also a drive by. No one seemed to care.

Thats just because I didn't see that episode plus everybody knows cartoons over-exagerate.

[GranDream]

:william:

[ps2baller]

Here are some other shows that gives paintball a bad name.

King of the Hill
Berny Mac Show
CSI
******* (show still funny:))
That one Car comercial
That one beer comercial
Exreme Days movie (name may be wrong)
And PB2X :rolleyes:























The last one was a joke:laugh:

[titus55]

all those shows do that so they can get the attention of the viewer. i agree that it is wrong and could turn out bad for the sport but the episdoes with paintball, to my knowledge, are few and far between to really have that much of an impact. theres re-runs but i think those may be on some kind of cycle or whatever. ive seen the king of the hill one 3 times and it was about 3 months apart. now when i saw the bernie mac one, that was about 2 years ago almost three. i saw it the night before i played my first time actually...anyways, like i said, these shows do it to get attention so that theyll get better ratings in the following weeks. the one car commercial did have the proper stuff ont he players so ya cant really gripe about that. but the beer one went a little too far...

[cockerwalker05]

I saw a power ranger show a while back and the red guy shot a monster in the eye.... poor monster. I think fox should be destroyed because of it. No goggles, ha idiots.

[GranDream]

They should have used masks during that episode of South Park where they pretended to be ninjas. Pure irresponsability.