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[Jrecee]

Wow a paintball game for the nes. How long has paintball been around?

[Ack]

Wow a paintball game for the nes. How long has paintball been around?

Paintball was first played June 27, 1980, in Henniker, New Hampshire.

And J T wins, I can't find any mentions of older paintball games than that.

[lordofduct]

Fucking white people...

we invent the most audacious and expensive sports on Earth. What the hell is wrong with us???

Paintball:

ok buy yourself a few hundred dollars worth of gear with your buddies
build an elaborate course to hide and run around in
shoot each other

Golf:
Spend bucket loads of money on finely engineered rods of metal and wood.
Pay exhorbitant rates to rent out several acres of land
hit a small tiny ball around for 7 hours while drinking 4 dollar beer, trying to hit it as few times as possible

Skiing:
Spend nearly 800 dollars on sticks to strap to your feet and gear to keep you warm on top of a mountain
spend 100 dollars for you and your friend to have a 6 hour pass to ride to the top of said mountain
THROW YOURSELF DOWN MOUNTAIN ON SAID STICKS!

What?????

...

sadly, they're the only sports I like. Well that and Hockey. Which consists of beating the every loving crap out of your teammate with long wooden sticks on a frozen lake.

[The Apprentice]

Lordofduct, you missed the big one- NASCAR.

a corperate sponsor pays for a several hundred-thousand dollar car,
said sponsor spends hundreds of thousands training a driver and employing him,
said driver drives said car in a large circle of track that cost millions to build,
driver experiences extreme thirst and fatigue after hours of wasting fuel in a left turn

The first man to stop driving wins a trophy.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

NASCAR isn't a sport, it's an interactive class on how to eat pavement.

[lordofduct]

NASCAR isn't a sport, it's an interactive class on how to eat pavement.

Yep, I left it out for a reason.

Nascar is not a sport in my book. Main reason for this belief of mine...

thousands of people can pick up a pig skin and play a game of football
thousands can buy skis and go skiing
thousands play golf every weekend

when was the last time you heard your friends say "Oh I spent the weekend out at the track driving in circles"???



Not to say this doesn't happen. Moroso motor sports park is right up the street from me, and their are amateur racers that go up their frequently around here. Thing is, I've never meet one!

I live in south Florida... it's 6-8 hours just to get out of my state. 10 hours plus to get to any sizable hill. And 20 hours to get to somewhere with what a northerner like myself would call snow (I'm originally from New England). Yet I can walk into any public commune and meet atleast a dozen people who ski or have skiied at least once.

Yet the motor sports park is literally 5 minutes from my door stop, and the closest I've been to meeting someone who partakes in it is my ex-girlfriends dad likes working on Fords and he sometimes drives up there with his classic cherry red Mustang and drinks beers in the parking lot with buddies.



Though I admit... IF you were to call it a sport. Nascar is by far the most expensive of the lot us whiteys invented. It's also the hugest waste of time that I truly do NOT understand. And I like cars, I was a truck driver, I hauled cars for a living. I knew every model out there, I drove everything, my favs being a classic MGB, and my DREAM car is to one day get a Triumph TR-6 and fix that little baby up... I'll call her "my lil' rocket car". But Nascar??? No, I think the word coming out of my mouth right now is the first time I've said it in over a decade.

you can't help but fall in love:




Which reminds me. Once I was hanging with a buddy of mine. He likes bikes, had one of those rice burner crotch rocket types. But he rode around in a leather jacket with "TRIUMPH" plastered across the back.

The first bike I ever sat on was a prototype Triumph single stroke back in the 80's. It was my dad's which he got through a sponsorship by bombardier when he raced motocross. I grew up around bikes, and had a fondness for Triumph (duh, my dream car IS a TR-6).

So one day I'm like, "OHHH, Triumph fan are we... blah blah blah."

He turns to me, "huh? Triumph? What the hell's a Triumph???"

"Remove that jacket RIGHT NOW."

[Ack]

Dude, even I've skied. Though admittedly it really wasn't my thing...nor were any of the other sports you mentioned. I understand the importance of playing games for relaxation, and the need for exercise, but I admit I just never got sports. Martial arts is more my thing.