It's not Jack Osbourne fooling with the marker that's the problem, it's Jack Osbourne being in any way associated with paintball......... seriously, anything he's into can no longer look good.
I'm with the "it doesn't matter" camp now...........how many golf clubs and baseball bats have you seen used negatively on TV? no one blames the sport.
For christs sake, someone had to kill 16 people with a handgum before they got a full ban in the UK..........I think we are safe for a while, unless SP are going to power the nerve with sarin gas.
As for negative press......... big deal, press is press........ would they think it's all over be co-hosted by Tuffnel and Seamen if they hadn't had all that drug/adultery coverage? Everyone raved about SoManc on the same programme.......... but if you really looked at it..... it was still a marker being mis-used...... but I don't care, it was great and it definately brought in new blood and gave paintball some serious street-cred.
My only problem with the Hollyoaks piece was
A: It wasn't paintball, it was a group of blokes in paintball camo with real "war" sounds played in the background (machine guns and mortar fire) so it made us look a sad.
B: Ten minutes of Hollyoaks without Izzy or the Irish girl........dammit.
