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From the Prez
issue 74
11/2014
Welcome
Ten Things I Wish We
Could Do Over, Part 1 of 5
November 2014
1. In April of 1994 the Iron-
Ironmen. Although Bob’s
team had a pretty successful
men showed up at the
first season, it was still a big
Splat-1 Indoor Championstep down from the Ironmen
ships wearing JT Motocross
jerseys and pants. This was success everyone was used
to. And the SC Ironmen
the first time that a big
were initially dreadful withtime pro team playing in a
out Bob. In essence, one
big time event ever wore
“concept” jerseys and pants great team became two decent ones. I wish we could
instead of the traditional
have seen the best team
camo apparel. Within a few
months many paintball tour- in paintball to that point in
history, play out for another
naments were not allowfive years. We’ll never know
ing players to wear camo,
but they may have been the
BDUs, etc., and thus begun
a period in time where much best team to ever play tournament paintball had they
of the industry and tournastayed together.
ment player base looked at
camo-wearing woodsballers
Next month I’ll give you two
as second class paintball
more things I wish we could
citizens.
do over.
2. In 1997 the Ironmen
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cut their captain Bob Long.
From 1992 to the time Bob
was let go, no team won
more professional paintball events than the IronJohn Amodea
men, and they were in their Editor/President
prime as a team. The IronPaintballX3 Magazine
men team minus Bob called
themselves the SC Ironmen
and Bob picked up a group
of amateur players and
named his team, Bob Long’s