A few weeks back, after Vince Young appeared shirtless on 60 Minutes, it became a popular pastime to declare the quarterback's back tattoo--which reads "V. YOUNG"--"The Worst Tattoo EVER." Then bloggers took this and ran with it, declaring Stephen Jackson's ink honoring prayer and guns and/or a Kiwi's presumptuous celebration of New Zealand's 2011 Rugby World Cup triumph the worst tattoos ever.
But let's go back to the original Vince Young art, and state, for the record, that this is officially a trend. Witness DeShawn Stevenson's offseason addition.
"It's not finished yet," he told me this afternoon. "I'm doing my whole back as a jersey....It's gonna be real nice."
Yes, that means that in the near future--possibly before the season--the script "Stevenson" will be joined by a large number '2.' Also, possibly by heaven's pearly gates, although that wouldn't really fit with the uniform motif. Anyhow, I told DeShawn about Vince Young's similar back stylings.
"For real?" he said. "See, that's the new hot thing."
I told him Internet types were skeptical.
"I think it's hot," he disagreed.