[quote name='Cornfedwb']Paintball is an activity, not a sport.
Cheerleading is not a sport, ping pong is not a sport, chess is not a sport.. many things people want to call "sports" now are activities, not sports.
Oh.. and Nascar(stock car racing) is the fastest growing "sport" (also not a sport), not paintball.[/quote]
Welll according to this:
Media IFOCE: The Eating Century Video highlights of America's fastest-growing sport!
International Federation of Competitive Eating is the fastest growing SPORT!!!!
I myself have heard bowling is the number one growing sport and Paintball is number two. I highly doubt that more people are driving Nascars than playing football etc. Nascar may be the fastest growing "watched/popularity" sport but it by no means is gaining 100,000's of drivers a year.
What I meant was fastest growing sport that people participated in.
This is not an end all say all but here is a nice link for last year which is the latest info since 2004 is still here:
http://www.nsga.org/public/pages/index.cfm?pageid=151
Funny how it changed 2002 Paintball was #1 and Martial arts was last (out of top 10) and Water Skiing which is last in 2003 was #2 last year.
Link Here for 2002 info:
http://paintball.com/features/story.cfm?placementid=2108&clickon=sotd