No matter where you stand on the whole tattoo issue, we would always recommend against someone getting a sports-based tattoo.
Despite the victim’s level of blind loyalty to a particular team, there’s just too much up-in-the-air to slap your beloved squad on your forearm or calf.
Teams and players change. They move. Hell, at the current rate of corporate rebranding (all just to sell more hats and jackets anyway), there’s a good chance your team’s logo won’t even be the same within five years of deciding that design should adorn your body for the rest of time.
But there’s just no reasoning with some people. And we’re guessing there was no bit of sense or rational thought that would have dissuaded 32-year-old Jack Meredith from getting a giant portrait of late Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson Jr. covering his upper right bicep.
My new Ralph Wilson tattoo #billsmafia pic.twitter.com/v3U8zAokR0
— jack Meredith (@fearthemoats13) May 17, 2014
Yeah, the semi-grimacing visage of a 95-year-old man will now adorn Jack Meredith’s arm until the day he dies…and according to Jack (as reported by Crave sports site NESN), he’s infinitely cool with that.
“We wouldn’t have a team without him and so, I felt it would be nice to pay tribute to him,” Meredith said.
Meredith even admits his decision has not been met with universal approval.
“Some people think I’m crazy,” Meredith said. “I don’t care. It’s my arm.”
Well, that is definitely inescapable logic…
