A tattoo to set standards...

[Cork]

I get all my important news from Yahoo!

Nick Hill

Insert *eyeroll* here.

The thing had to cost a fortune because the detail is immaculate right down to the adornments on the loin armor.

The reason I post this is because IMO, it doesn't look nearly as good as it should. The spear isn't even straight. Maybe compared to other college sports tattoos it looks pretty good though I guess.

[David Flores]

People have eyes like potatoes. First of all I think the design could have be drawn to fit the space better and fill up the space better and with the amount of detail in the tattoo bigger is always better and yeah there is nothing that spectacular or newsworthy about it for that matter.

[Kev]

Slow news day

[kollin]

but it's FFOOOTTTTBAAAAWWWLLLLL!

[Scott R]

the comments are questioning how broke college kid gets tattoo.

[David Flores]

the comments are questioning how broke college kid gets tattoo.

Mom and Dad's credit card I imagine. I mean you can't dip in the drinking money. But seriously it's a tattoo not a Lamborghini! There are a lot of people that get tattooed because they don't money to go on exotic vacations or drive fancy cars, but they might have $300 to get a tattoo and they just want to do something for themselves.

[slayer9019]

Mom and Dad's credit card I imagine. I mean you can't dip in the drinking money. But seriously it's a tattoo not a Lamborghini! There are a lot of people that get tattooed because they don't money to go on exotic vacations or drive fancy cars, but they might have $300 to get a tattoo and they just want to do something for themselves.

You can never dip into the beer fund!

On another note, I can understand why this is the "new benchmark" for football tattoos, because I have NEVER seen a good sports-based tattoo in my life (whether online or in person), so this new story is not really saying all that much.

[Scott R]

@David Flores yeah kinda what I was thinking, walk around corner sign up for credit card get a coozie and a t-shirt walk to tattoo shop get tattoo.

that or donor gives you cash you get tattoo

[posterboy7596]

It is a decent tattoo I suppose, at least I think we've all seen much worse. What still confuses me(less and less as I see it more) is the measure that non-tattooed society has for what is an awesome tattoo. If we were to put things on a 10 scale, with 10 being best, what the tattoo community would see as about a 5 would be considered a 10 by "other" people. Maybe I'm off... just my 2cents. Interesting post though.

[David Flores]

Not the same tattoo, but similar enough for this quick comparison tattoo recently posted by Mike Rubendall. Putting it next to a great tattoo and see how it stands up.

[Kev]

Compared to his teammate's tattoo:

Or Bama's QB's tattoo (wow):

It's pretty next level = /

[Ursula]

well if that first tattoo is the standard to live up to when getting college football tattoos, no wonder most of em suck.. wtf.. that thing isn't the worst i've seen by far, but it's miles away from being great. I'd say it's an o.k tattoo, but I'd never go to the artist who did it.

[gougetheeyes]

And @Ursula is back!

[JAllen]

that chic with the alabama qb has a messed up face and it looks like possibly a beard. i typed a bunch of stuff about the whole media bullshit, tattoo opinions, etc but decided it's more important to focus on how this chic is breathing out of a tiny hole on the side of her face..and is that tiny eye above it?

[Ursula]

And @Ursula is back!

Gotta take a break from being an online asshole every now and then, keep that shit fresh ya know.. hahaha..

@JAllen "I'd rather look like some faceless bikini football slut then show my face beside your awful tattoo"

[Kev]

Sorority Cenobite

[aleksksks]

that chic with the alabama qb has a messed up face and it looks like possibly a beard. i typed a bunch of stuff about the whole media bullshit, tattoo opinions, etc but decided it's more important to focus on how this chic is breathing out of a tiny hole on the side of her face..and is that tiny eye above it?

hah, that tiny hole is the dude's belly button I guess, if you look closer you can see how someone cut part of his belly and pants and pasted it over the girl's face, very subtle.

[temporarytattoo]

That is an really a cool tattoo a quite pretty soldier.