Comments on: Sports Tattoos: Awesome or Insane?

By: Duffy

Duffy — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:11:28 +0000

Ha, actually my parents just got matching Red Sox tattoos today, but they do have a meaning to them. The design is a shamrock with the sox emblem in the center, then two hands on the sides like a claddagh, then Celtic knots woven out from each hand and meeting on the back of their ankles. My dad is a die hard fan and irish. My mom is a fan too, but she got it more because a lot of our great family memories happened at sox games. Really getting a tattoo of your favorite sports team can represent so much more then advertising your team

By: tattoo

tattoo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:37:24 +0000

I know ow passionate some people can be about their home team. I’m from liverpool england and i see people with the Liverpool football badge and i thin it looks ok but when i see another team i’m not passionate about or anything sport i just think it looks stupid.

End of the day though, as long as it holds meaning to the person wearing it, then it doesn’t matter.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:49:02 +0000

I just got SOX (Boston Red Sox) tattoo on the back of my neck not even a week ago. I thought about it for a long time but realized…”I’ve loved the Red Sox all my life and will always be a hard core Red Sox fan.” So I don’t think sports tattoos are stupid at all. As long as it’s something you’re not going to regret.

By: Kate Torgovnick

Kate Torgovnick — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:23:17 +0000

Amy, what a great story. Sebastian the Ibis—that is intense. I’m glad you didn’t judge this lovely sports fan and have come to love the tattoo (or at least tolerate it). And Megan, true dat. Better than a butterfly.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:34:18 +0000

As a die-hard Mets fan, though I don’t have a Mets tattoo yet, I can definitely understand and appreciate the sports tattoo. Love for your team is a lifelong passion, its permanent, not some passing phase. Thats the amazing part of baseball for me; that while everything else in life and the world in general is forever changing, your team will always be there. And unlike some of the stars or butterflies I’ve seen friends get tattooed, I consider that meaningful enough to pay a poermanent tribute to.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:38 +0000

I always thought they were completely lame – and then I married a man with a sports tattoo. My Star Trek-obsessed, musical-loving, super-nerdy-stand-up-comedian husband is also the biggest college football fan I know, and has Sebastian the Ibis – of the Miami Hurricanes – on his bicep. If I had known about the tattoo before the rest of the stuff, I may have judged him unfairly as a jock-ish douche; thankfully, that did not happen! (And it made me reconsider my tendency to judge in that sort of way, so double-yay.) And hey, at least it shows that the person is passionate about something…