Link: http://www.bullrun.com/

Well, once again I was watching Bullrun and once again, paintball markers played a part on the show. What do they have a contract with Tippmann to get so much airtime for their 98 Customs? This time the contestants had to navigate a dirt course and shoot a couple of stationary targets with the markers along the way.

I think the bus takedown was better.

Link: http://www.bullrun.com/

Okay, so I admit I watch reality TV shows. Big deal. However it seems like lately the reality TV show is needing to make up on it's paintball quota.

Last week it was Bull Run. If you haven't seen this show here is the rundown. 12 teams of 2 participate in a 4,000 mile rally with their cars. The cars, naturally, are not your normal, everyday vehicles and neither are the teams your normal, everyday people. This season, there is a Ferrari 430 Spider, a 2008(?) Shelby Mustang, a Lexus is250, a Mitsubishi Evo, a 1971 Panterra, a 1970 Dodge Dart, a 2002 Porsche 911 C4S, a 2001 Corvette (with a very Strange but very cool team headed by a guy named Elvis), a 2007 Avalanche, a Pontiac Solstice (my choice as I own a Pontiac and use to have a Kappa platform Sky), a 1967 VW Bus, and a sweet looking 1969 Camaro. The teams have to go from point A to point B and usually have to hit a checkpoint or two along the way to make things interesting. First team there wins...

...but there's a catch. The last two teams to make it to the end of the leg get thrown into an elemination challenge. After all, what's a reality show without an elimination challenge. Also, the first place team then gets to pick a third team from the remaining teams to also be in the elimination challenge. Well, last week in episode one of the new season, the challenge was called Bus Takedown. Team Porsche and Team Shelby were the last two to the finish and Team Solstice who finished first decided to throw Team Ferrari into the mix.

Well here is how the challenge went down. The event took place at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Bus would pass a certain point and that was the cue for the driver to take off in persuit. The driver first had to pull up on the left side of the bus and the navigator, equipped with a Tippman 98 it looked like, had to shoot a target on that side of the bus. Then the driver had to break, move around behind the bus, and then run up and hit a tube of glass that was dangling from the right side of the bus. Once hit, the team had to repeat these feats two more times at which point the clock would stop. The team who completed it in the fastest time won.

Now I don't know if the bus shot back or the people in the cars just never had held a gun, paintball or otherwise, before because each team came back to the pits with the passenger's side windshield splattered with orange paint hits.

The second Paintball reference was on Sober House. I'm not going to get into it too much but imagine a bunch of celebrity recovering addicts and you get the idea. Well, they went to play paintball in the last episode at Paintball USA which, I believe, is up by Magic Mountain here in Los Angeles. Well, at one point one of the Celebrities, Amber Smith a former model, gets hit in the neck and one too many times. She responds by throwing off her mask in the middle of play. Well, the refs were on it and in the background heard clear as day even over the player's yelling, you could hear the ref "GET THOSE GOGGLES BACK ON!!!" Good job ref!!! It was an interesting episode and showed what rec paintball is about but the attitude of some of the people playing it from the show was attrocious. Hope they see how rediculous they look on the show behaving like that.

Told you not to get use to the everyday postings...but at least now I have some real "various nonsense" as promised.

I wish I had a link to this but did anyone else catch the McDonald's add during the pre-race show for the Daytona 500? Yea, I'm a NASCAR fan...so shoot me. What can I say I like fast cars...

But that's not what gets this entry on the Blog. This commercial gets a mention here because it is paintball related...barely. So the commercial starts out with a young couple sitting across from each other. The viewer is entering the scene with some kind of conversation already in progress.

"See, what you don't understand about Paintball is..." the man says as the camera pans to the woman who then proceeds to ignore the man and focus on another man across the room who's eating a Quarter Pounder or something. The guy says something else about paintball before his dialog is faded out but I couldn't catch it.

Nothing major, I know, but I thought it was funny and obviously it's paintball related. That and is reminded me about the conversations I've had with my girlfriend about paintball...though she wouldn't be distracted by a hamburger...

I've been trying to find a clip of it but without much luck so far. If anyone happens to stumble across it please feel free to post it with a comment.