Thoughts by Non-Ballers on the ESPN Telecasts

[spydadude]

So I was sitting in Spanish, minding my own business, walking my pencil as usual, when a kid asks me if I play paintball. I say yes and we end up talking about tourneys, guns, and teams. We then discussed the ESPN shows. Another kid chimes in, saying he's played once with a university team (just a few pickup games) and said that he was watching the ESPN show. He thought it was well made and felt that it resembled football (I have no idea why). He said that he'd be telling more people to watch it.

Anybody else have discussions like this with non-ballers about the ESPN shows?

[lawnboi]

My grandparents watched it, and liked it. So did some of my cousins, and my 9 year old sister was even interested in it.

[maxxa1221]

in school a couple non-ballers, and antiballers have asked me if ive seen it. Im one of the few hardcore ballers in my school, so if anyone really wants to talk about paintball, they will most likely talk to me.

[paintballer667]

Yes in my binder at school the front of it has the detroit strang magazine cutout that I put on it. Many people have been asking me if I saw paintball on monday. Thats happened at least 12 times.

[sniper6997]

one of my friends who says that his mom wont let him play, said he watched it and thought it was...boring. i dont understand how he could think this but w/e.

[Tweeters]

i got bored watching that

[noobert]

I get a lot of my friends who are up late online to watch it on mondays. I got my bro watching it and he even asked for a schedule so he's basically hooked lol. A few other kids have gotten hooked too, and i ask them how they think of the sport. Some posotive some negative, im still getting more and more ppl to watch it though

[g35x]

yeah i record it and show people
im gona burn every show to dvd at the end =)

[Imp_Man]

i usually tape it cause a lot of my friends don't have cable and they want to watch it and the don't play

[dantriggerhappy]

IMO, NPPL tournaments are lame. Good teams, but I prefer X-ball's style of play

[spydadude]

I get what people are saying about it being boring. Some of it is just too drawn out.

NXL would be cool to see on TV, but I think everything got a little botched up now.

[dantriggerhappy]

Yeah, I was pretty thrilled when I saw Billy and Nicky of the hurricanes playing. I was like, 'hey, I practiced with those guys.'

[ase]

I am literally the only hardcore baller in my school of 4,000. I'm taking a renegade baller (only played a couple times ) to my practice on Sunday. He asked if I had seen it, and I said yeah, but he thinks tournament ball is stupid.

[Tweeters]

Originally Posted by dantriggerhappy

IMO, NPPL tournaments are lame. Good teams, but I prefer X-ball's style of play

imho 7-mans have a little more drama than x-ball matches. and drama always makes things funner.

[th3man]

People who don't play think its stupid. Lets be honest, there's not much to see if you haven't played paintball before. You're looking overhead at a field, you cant see the paintballs, the only thing that tells you whats going on are the red/yellow/blue circles which makes it more like a video game. For people who play, its awesome...you know exactly whats happening.

I think they need better camera angles, like maybe if they got some actually on the field. Or better yet, if they play indoors, they can get some of those sliding cameras up above that drop down from the ceiling so people can really see everything.

[Loser2049]

Originally Posted by th3man

I think they need better camera angles, like maybe if they got some actually on the field. Or better yet, if they play indoors, they can get some of those sliding cameras up above that drop down from the ceiling so people can really see everything.

Yes.

[Tweeters]

they're trying to run it like football, i think its working. paintball itself just isnt a spectator sport.

[Teh Jabes]

My girlfriend watched it, and has been begging me to take her balling ever since...

To bad i'm too poor to afford a gat : ( Damn you drums, damn you!

[qwertly18]

i have DVR and ive recorded all of it and watch it in my spare time awesome!

[soccerjacks12]

Yeah it gets kind of boring after you've seen it twice. Alot of my friends watched it and talked to me because alot of people know that I play paintball. It's all positive stuff, and they all really want to play.