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Paintball Nicknames Why do paintball players need nicknames? If you go into corporate America you will meet lots of Johns, Rachels and a few Mr. Smiths or President Coopers, but you don't meet very many Mad Dogs or Big Reds. Paintballers, though, love to give themselves names that the rest of the world doesn't know about.I'm just as guilty as anyone else - I've used the nickname "Miser" ever since I first chose a nickname to play a multiplayer computer game. Incidentally, I chose the name from another computer game character - the ghost miser from King's Quest IV, if you remember that game. There's nothing special about my nickname, I just liked the name as a kid and it has followed me onto the paintball field (unless I can just go as "Dave").I realize that nicknaming might be more prevalent in the woods than on the speedball field (though speedballers do come up with creative nicknames) and it's possible that the military-esque nature of woodsball suits the military tradition of nicknames for enlisted soldiers. I, though, have another theory:Paintball started gaining popularity in the mid-to-late '80s. At the same time in America, 1986 to be exact, Top Gun came out and everybody wanted to be known as Maverick or Goose or some other similar-type name. With paintball, though, the naming game just stuck. Then again, maybe not.If you have a creative paintball nickname, share it in the comments and tell us the story behind it.Paintball Nicknames originally appeared on About.com Paintball on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at 18:17:36.Permalink | Comment | Email this paintball.about.com |
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