The tale of the "Biz Boys".....

It was a dark and stormy night, ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H

Nah too corny,

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, 
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^

$#% That one was good, but it's already taken.

Well, some years back, myself (Bill Mills), Dawn Mills (then Dawn 
Lindsey), Brad Heuseveldt, Jeff Ruch, Cristin Pescosolido, and a host of 
other folks used to play paintball at least once a month or so with the 
Instigators.  We cruised up and down the San Joaquin valley meeting 
various local teams and playing on private fields.

Some time in the late 80s most of the Instigators went separate ways, but 
the folks that I brought into the team and the sport stayed together.  One 
summer, while going to the Adventure Game of America field in Fresno 
(this is the field where I first played, it used to be owned by Matt Brown of 
TASO), we decided it was time to come up with a new team name since 
we weren't all of the Instigators.  Playing with us for the first time was Paul 
Walton, a hooligan from Hitchin (a town outside of London), and of course 
Cristin, who was home for the summer from Harvard (in Boston of course).

I thought the London, Boston, Fresno tie in was cool, but we still needed a 
name.  One of Paul's favorite expressions was "That's the biz!"  A British 
slang meaning that something was cool.  Several members of the team 
were card carrying SubGeniuses, so of course that led to Bob's name in 
the title, and his place in the logo.

So we had the name.  That fall Cristin e-mailed the logo to me, and the 
rest is history.

So if you're ever at a paintball field and see a bunch of people flying a US, 
British, and "Biz Boys" flag, you know you've found us.  Come on over and 
say hi.  Maybe even redeem your valuable coupon from the BizPageŽ.