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September 25th, 2008: The Pre-Blanding Report


Everything found here was either directly observed by the staff, sent in by members of The Ford Report Mailing list, or quoted by anonymous Ford Report Minions.  Keep in mind at all times…  The Ford Report is for entertainment purposes only!  Some of the things posted here may not be completely accurate.  These posts may directly correlate to yourself, your team, or company.  If you are offended by any of the info on the Ford Report, drop me a line and I’ll remove you from the mailing list…if you’re seeing it on the site, then feel free to click that little red ‘X’ and move on with your day.
  1. Minions inform me that Craig Miller is no longer with ProCaps, Richmond Italia has retired, and Mike Peverill’s role has changed..  Minions, Informants, and others are ‘having a little talk’ with various people associated with ProCaps to see what the status of Frank Connell is…while I don’t think he can sing nearly as well as Miller can, he’s got the looks and charm to fill Miller’s shoes…
  2. The GPL welcomes Tribal Stix barrels to their stable of league sponsors.
  3. All the cool kids are going to Camp Blanding this weekend for the Red vs. Blue game for Juliana.  I’ll be there…how about you?
  4. Anyone who still needs a team for World Cup sign up now at www.Agents4hire.com.  Teams are filling up fast!
  5. The JT Sports’ CASTLE CONQUEST XXVI is this coming weekend at EMR Paintball Park in New Milford, PA.  With over 600 pre-regs, the fight for Castle Aaarrgh will be a huge battle and Traumahead Sports will be catching it all on video for their new Paintball Show “Paintball gear and Tactics”.  Don’t miss the Pure Paintball Insanity of this game as teams and players from all over the East Coast battle it out. Paintball Is my passion, is it Yours?  Check it out at www.EMRPAINTBALL.com .
  6. Derder Video opens up pre-orders for their new DVD “Progression”. All pre-orders receive the double disc DVD + a free Sandana or Headband, Barrel Band and stickers. Dealers can save big time on a dealer only package by contacting Derder direct @ 858-581-3992. To see the Progression and new Derder Short Bus trailers visit : www.Derder.com
  7. Magued from Joy Division informs me that Joy is on the third leg of their world tour, this time hitting Brazil.  Playa, Samba, and Paintball are on the schedule.  Swedish Paintball Players in Brazil?  That’ll get messy…
  8. Nitehawk Paintball (http://www.NitehawkPaintball.com) held their 1st Annual United Way Paintball Game to raise money for Cancer Patient Care on the 13th. No word yet on how much they raised, but Williams (http://www.williams.com/), a natural gas company, dug in to help put the event together and also matched dollar-for-dollar all money raised at the event. It’s amazing how much good publicity our sport can get when people take the time to contact their favorite charity organization and use paintball to help out those who aren’t so fortunate.
  9. The AXBL/CXBL presents the NAX Championships this weekend at Darien Lake!!  The top 8 teams from each league will fight it out to see who will get to the final match, USA vs CANADA!!  If you can’t make it to the monumental event of the year….grab your pop corn and glue your eyes to your computer and watch the LIVE point by point, penalty by penalty scoreboard on xball.com for FREE. It will be live all weekend long with the championship match starting at 2pm on Sunday the 28th.
  10. Tippmann rolls out their new website, www.trypaintballnow.com
  11. Technical difficulties took 68Caliber.Com down, which were a source of great annoyance to me and my business partners.  Our server people have been working diligently to get things back on track, and it would appear that they’ve made significant progress.
  12. PaintballChat.Org will be broadcasting live from Tippmann World Challenge coming up this weekend at Hell Survivors in Michigan.
  13. DYE is rolling out a new and improved Throttle tank.
  14. The DM9 is out and available for sale as well.  There are rumors of a limited edition DM9 coming out at World Cup, but as yet these are unconfirmed rumors from questionable sources.
  15. Paintball Central and Hell Survivors choose Cossio Insurance Agency for their field insurance needs.  As they should!
  16. X.O. Industries are making an offer you can’t refuse on paint at World Cup…tell the driver Tony sent you…
  17. If you feel the need to sling a massive amount of paint, you can book yourself a date with “Lou Bertha” at ECX.
  18. Camp Miles Paintball is back for a 7-game season, starting with a “Braveheart” game at the Punta Gorda, FL field starting October 3rd-5th.
  19. Registration opens for NOCER Productions’ “Bloodlines:  The Inquisition” at Old River Paintball in October.  What makes this game unique is that the storyline is all original, with influences from horror movies and books, as well as Native American mythology.  Kristie and Andy are evil geniuses…come down to Old River to experience the depth of their perversity…
  20. Registration Opens for this year’s Free Finale, called “Playa’s Ball”.  Recruiting is already going hot and heavy, with generals Joe “Sideshow” Holleran and Jason “My-T-Mouse” Hall taking inspiriation from my antics for “Revenge of a Nerd” and taking some really humiliating pictures in character for the game.  As an added bonus, this year’s Finale will be at LCP, so you can party like it’s 1979 and make your pimp hand strong…
  21. Lance from GZ Paintball is going to save my life again, assuming SoBe Paintball’s John Navarro can’t this weekend…
  22. PSP announces special deals for rooms and houses at World Cup, as well as discount tickets into Disney World.
  23. Yes, 68Caliber.Com is really for sale.  Not a rumor that’s going around…we’re pretty blunt about it in an ad on the front page of 68Caliber.Com.

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