Old School paintball story from 2002

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  • TornadoAlley
    Rockin and Cockin
    • Dec 2020
    • 93
    • Kansas

    #1

    Old School paintball story from 2002

    I am posting this at the urging of Myrkul

    So this started with 5 guys from 3 different fields all from different teams that decided why not head up to Iowa and play the Nebraska State Championship. It’s was a few miles over the border..🤷🏻‍♂️ we never figured that one out!

    It was
    Sam “Goldie DA Pimp” Smock from Vapor Works/PB Trader
    Clint Arndt from PB Trader
    Galen Adams from Drop Zone paintball/ Dyslexic Dogs
    Adam Thomsen
    George Scott (me) from Tornado Alley Paintball
    Dan Wilson our DD and guy who had a Mini Van

    I think we decided to play the Thursday or Friday before and the tournament was Sunday. We all got people to cover for us at our fields/Stores and headed up Saturday at 4:00 pm. We Pick up Sam and Clint an hour away in Emporia Ks and run up to Lawrence to get Galen and the paint. We piled all 6 of us in a mini van with all our gear and way more Severe Hot Pink paint/Glue with glitter mixed in than we needed! That stuff was nasty and it stained!

    We get 15 miles down the road and blow a tire! We proceeded to unload all said gear and paint on the side of an 8 lane highway to get to the spare and jack. We hustle over to Walmart by this time it’s like 6:30-7:00 and they are about to close. So we throw the tire on the counter and say Ya’ll got a case of that fix a flat. We proceeded to get that blank stare from the guy at the counter. We finally asked if they could do one more tire and they said that was up to the tire guy. So we bribed the tire guy with $20 and a promise we would put it back on the van! We had our tire mounted and balanced in 5 mins and we’re back on the road in 15 mins.

    an hour or so goes by and we need to stop for gas. “I don’t recommend this part kiddies” we fill up with gas and everyone but Dan who is driving get some sort of adult beverage, mine was 44 oz cherry coke topped off with a fifth of the captain!

    Another hour or so goes by “Longest trip ever” and we need to stop for a pee break, all there is are elevated highways through corn fields at this point. We all pile out and I start to do my business at which point I am very hammered and I feel a swift kick in the butt and proceeded to go flying/tumbling mid steam down the hill… I managed to finish peeing and get myself back up the hill and they talked me out of whooping Adams butt!

    so another hour later we finally make it to the hotel it’s like 1:00 am. We take a few trips to the room to unload all our stuff. That 44oz drink went right through me so my drunk ass proceeded to pee all over a random shopping cart in the middle of the hotel parking lot! We make our last trip to the room and looked out the window to see where everyone was and see Adam running through the parking lot pushing the freshly peed on cart so I guess I got him back.

    On the way up we talked about a team name because no one wanted to use their real team name and it came down to 2! So since it was the Nebraska State Championship it was either going to be the Porn Huskers or the Milf Hunters. We knew they wouldn’t let us use either but we had to try.

    We were right next to the casino and when it’s 1:00 am and you have to be to the field at 7:30 what do you do? We go gamble and drink some more! I think Dan, Sam and I made it back to the room at 3:30. Galen, Clint and Adam show back up at 5:30!!! We all remarkablely managed to get up and make it to the field by 7:30!

    We all stumble up to get checked in and they asked our team name. We all just looked at each other and Adam said Milf Hunters! So the young unknowing mom doing registration wrote it down and we just all quietly walked off.

    15 mins later the guy running the tournament finds us to discuss our team name, we refuse to change it and they just proceed to smirk at us and just call us the Hunters all day.

    it was a rough day but being all in our 20’s we managed to hold our own and made the finals! It was a rough finals and we dropped a game we shouldn’t have so it came down to for us to win it all another team had to lose their last match. Let’s just say we got lucky AF, a couple of there markers went down and the last guy ran out of paint and was picking balls off the ground and shooting them, that didn’t work out and he got shot out pretty quick and we secured the win.

    Needless to say there was some very unhappy local Nebraska and Iowa teams who thought they were going to walk away with it all. Most of them had no idea who we were and I guess it made it even worse a bunch of hungover Kansas guys walked away with it.

    so It came time to give out the trophies and so they get to us… They kept calling us the Hunters but we refused to accept anything until they called up by our registered name. So the guy running the tournament who probably had 10-15 moms with there 12-16 year old sons watched him turn bright red while he announced the MILF Hunters as the winners!

    it was a rough but fun day, luckily for us Dan slept half the day in the van while we played because we all passed out on the ride home.

    That was the first and last time we ever used the Milf Hunters name. Actually probably the last time we all ever played on a team together!
  • scottieb
    Member since 2004
    • Jul 2020
    • 4185
    • Lincoln, Nebraska

    #2
    That's a wild story. Thanks for sharing.

    I've played in that tournament but do not remember the MILF Hunters. It must have been a different year. I wonder if Richter power has any videos from it?

    I'm betting the reason for the Nebraska championship being held in Iowa is due to the lack of fields in Nebraska. By that time Shooters had closed in Omaha, Big Dawg was closed near Fremont, I had closed my field and store by then, a teammate of mine had yet to open his indoor field in Omaha, and I'm unsure what Cornhusker Paintball was doing near Plattsmouth. Nebraska has always needed paintball fields. Nothing's changed in that regard.
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    • TornadoAlley
      Rockin and Cockin
      • Dec 2020
      • 93
      • Kansas

      #3
      I messaged Goldie and told him to jump in with any details or pics i may have missed. Need others to join in with their wild tales from the old days. This is the one trip we did spend the evening supporting single moms! One of these days i may have to tell the story of the time i had a 4" platform heel graze my ear when a young KU student working her way through college did a hand stand on stage!

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      • martix_agent
        MCB Member
        • Jul 2020
        • 549
        • Indiana

        #4
        "goldie da pimp?" Boy, that's pretty interesting. I've never heard him called that, before.

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        • TornadoAlley
          Rockin and Cockin
          • Dec 2020
          • 93
          • Kansas

          #5
          He can explain that Nickname!

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          • iamthelazerviking
            Make Paintballs 690 Again
            • Jul 2020
            • 2793
            • Staunton, VA

            #6
            OH, to be young again
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            • goldie
              Newbie
              • Oct 2023
              • 16

              #7
              Originally posted by martix_agent
              "goldie da pimp?" Boy, that's pretty interesting. I've never heard him called that, before.
              I'll have to find a picture. Back then I worked at a motocross shop and a bar. We spent hours watching mx videos like Crusty Demons of Dirt and others.

              Andy Bowyer was a pretty famous rider at that point from Emporia that we knew that was in the videos. You might have heard of his brother Clint Bowyer.... He kind of got more famous than his brother.

              Anyhow in one of those videos they had a "pimp and ho" party. So we decided to have one at the bar. I spray painted all my outfit with gold spray paint and made everyone call me Goldie D Pimp.

              Then when paintball city came around I used that as my user name as it was a stupid nickname my real life friends called me.

              If I would have known I'd end up running a business and people calling me that I probably would have chosen a different name...

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              • goldie
                Newbie
                • Oct 2023
                • 16

                #8
                To tag on to what George said, I think we got a sportsmanship award too

                One of my fields teams won the 3 man moving division.


                I went to take this picture and realized that I have one is the three man trophies and not my 5 man. It only took me 25 years to realize it.

                I think the first year I played at the NE champs it was on soccer fields. The night before we went to the Ranch Bowl and saw Pomeroy. I didn't even remember how poorly we did that year.

                Someone should post about when Drop Zone had the tourney in the middle of the Lawrence Warped Tour in like 98.

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                • scottieb
                  scottieb commented
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                  Dropping some good old school names like Pomeroy.

                • goldie
                  goldie commented
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                  Years ago Kansas State University played the intro to Pomeroy Roboflow as their kickoff song. I was probably the only one in the stadium that knew what it was.
              • martix_agent
                MCB Member
                • Jul 2020
                • 549
                • Indiana

                #9
                well at least your username has a fun story behind it, and not just a mistype like mine.

                These sound like good times, but there's not a chance I'd go back to those days again, having lived my life up to this point.

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                • TornadoAlley
                  Rockin and Cockin
                  • Dec 2020
                  • 93
                  • Kansas

                  #10
                  Originally posted by goldie

                  Then when paintball city came around I used that as my user name as it was a stupid nickname my real life friends called me.
                  Ahh Paintball City, The MySpace of the paintball world!

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                  • Carp
                    enter over there..☝
                    • Jul 2020
                    • 4941
                    • ....on the 13th floor!

                    #11
                    Originally posted by StevenJonesS1

                    This is absolute gold 😂 The tire blowout, the pink glue paint, the flying pee incident, the casino at 1 AM, and then casually registering as the MILF Hunters might be the greatest tournament story I’ve ever read. I can only imagine the tournament director’s face when he had to announce that in front of all those families! Do you still have any photos or trophies from that weekend? And honestly, how did you guys even manage to play the finals on basically zero sleep? 😂
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                      ...and the spamming scammer, is gone, for the moment!

                      Figured that data turd would try it!
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