Ravens fan for life now!

**batman55** · 02-15-2013, 07:36 PM

Well I'm currently on the chair! Becoming a fan forever and capping off an end to an Amazing season!!!!
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**D-RavedUp5-27-52-20** · 02-15-2013, 07:50 PM

Cool tattoo batman. Victorious Raven Movement!!!!!!

**Saltwater_Rider** · 02-15-2013, 08:20 PM

Hey Purple... VU were alt pioneers! Still an influence.

Gs3/tapatak

**SC_Raven_Fan** · 02-15-2013, 08:21 PM

I hope you remember this year, after Flacco, Harbaugh and Ozzie are gone, there have been several crappy drafts, and the D is a shell of its former self and the O turns the ball over like they're turning over in their sleep.

Every franchise goes through changes. Not all changes are good. That's why this team needs tough fans like us that will not ever let them get soft. We're here to cheer for them when they're good and give 'em hell when they're not.
Welcome to the brotherhood.
Now repeat after me:
"Everyone is against us. The Commish is against us.
The refs and the rules committee are against us.
Jim Irsay is satan and Paul Tagliabue is his minion.
In spite of that, we cheer our team toward winnin'! GO RAVENS!"

**batman55** · 02-15-2013, 09:43 PM

Thanks for ALL of your support this season guys! My first season being apart of this board!

**bt12483** · 02-18-2013, 09:14 AM

Ok...now compare yours to Jacoby Jones' new ink.

Keep in mind this guy is a millionaire, and could afford the absolute best tattoo artist in the world.

Instead, he gets this (photo taken from front page story):

Really? Really??? Come on Jacoby...

**Paintballguy** · 02-18-2013, 09:15 AM

Originally Posted by bt12483

Ok...now compare yours to Jacoby Jones' new ink.

Keep in mind this guy is a millionaire, and could afford the absolute best tattoo artist in the world.

Instead, he gets this:

Really? Really??? Come on Jacoby...

Wow looks like a 5 year old did it.

**HoustonRaven** · 02-18-2013, 09:18 AM

You might want to go back for a touch up once it heals.

Those colors do not look deep enough. Maybe it's the camera, but the purple in particular is splotchy. It should be a deep, even purple.

**bt12483** · 02-18-2013, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by HoustonRaven

You might want to go back for a touch up once it heals.

Those colors do not look deep enough. Maybe it's the camera, but the purple in particular is splotchy. It should be a deep, even purple.

Jacoby needs his entire piece touched up. What a disaster.

**HoustonRaven** · 02-18-2013, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by bt12483

Jacoby needs his entire piece touched up. What a disaster.

True.

But I am guessing the OP doesn't have the W2 that Jacoby has, thus I am more concerned that the OP gets a proper job than Jacoby getting a horrible one.

**NCRAVEN** · 02-18-2013, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by bt12483

Jacoby needs his entire piece touched up. What a disaster.

Seriously. When I first saw it this is what I thought of.

**RedSkins Fury** · 02-18-2013, 09:29 AM

Nice, clean work Batman. It's nice to have light skin that allows for the color work to show up clear and bright. As far as Jacoby (and many of other players)... I don't get it. Why not go and get it done by the best... like this guy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrmb1...layer_embedded

I researched artists for a year for a cover up tattoo I was getting done... Hell, for just a little bit more money and a bit of a wait on the waiting list (1 year lol) anyone can get the best. If I did, they can. I'm sure these athletes can um.... bypass a waiting list.

PS. I hope the Ravens don't ever leave Baltimore.... or you could be rooting for the LA Ravens of the NTFL (National Touch Football League) or something like that in the year 2052... lol.

**leachisabeast** · 02-18-2013, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by SC_Raven_Fan

I hope you remember this year, after Flacco, Harbaugh and Ozzie are gone, there have been several crappy drafts, and the D is a shell of its former self and the O turns the ball over like they're turning over in their sleep.

Every franchise goes through changes. Not all changes are good. That's why this team needs tough fans like us that will not ever let them get soft. We're here to cheer for them when they're good and give 'em hell when they're not.
Welcome to the brotherhood.
Now repeat after me:
"Everyone is against us. The Commish is against us.
The refs and the rules committee are against us.
Jim Irsay is satan and Paul Tagliabue is his minion.
In spite of that, we cheer our team toward winnin'! GO RAVENS!"

Absolutely silly comment right here.

Yeah when Flacco and Harbs are gone..... in line ten years.

To the OP, nice man, I'm really considering something my self actually.

**GOTA** · 02-18-2013, 12:17 PM

Very nice Batman55. I've considered it but was always worried about a symbol change at some point. A lot easier to keep buy new Ravens stuff for my car and wearing the latest gear.

**lobachevsky** · 02-18-2013, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by leachisabeast

Absolutely silly comment right here.

Only silly IMHO to those who can't see past the next season...or have forgotten how long tattoos last.

Sean, an old British acquaintance from Sunspot who posted as Cockney Raven, once commented that the true test of a fan is how loyal s/he remains to the team during its inevitable time in the wilderness--that it took a lot more fortitude to attach one's sporting heart to a perennial outsider like West Ham (his team in English footie) than a ManU. And in the parity-besotted NFL, no team can count on staying on top forever.

As the slaves on the back of the Roman generals' chariot are alleged to have whispered in their ears during their triumphal marches, Memento mori. (For that matter sic transit gloria mundi works pretty well too.)

(Just FTR were I a tattoo-sporting kind of guy I might've had the artist add under the logo something like--

SB XXXV CHAMPIONS 1/28/01
SB XLVII CHAMPIONS 2/3/13

--& left plenty of room below that. YMMV)

**RedSkins Fury** · 02-18-2013, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by lobachevsky

Only silly IMHO to those who can't see past the next season...or have forgotten how long tattoos last.

Sean, an old British acquaintance from Sunspot who posted as Cockney Raven, once commented that the true test of a fan is how loyal s/he remains to the team during its inevitable time in the wilderness--that it took a lot more fortitude to attach one's sporting heart to a perennial outsider like West Ham (his team in English footie) than a ManU. And in the parity-besotted NFL, no team can count on staying on top forever.

As the slaves on the back of the Roman generals' chariot are alleged to have whispered in their ears during their triumphal marches, Memento mori. (For that matter sic transit gloria mundi works pretty well too.)

(Just FTR were I a tattoo-sporting kind of guy I might've had the artist add under the logo something like--

SB XXXV CHAMPIONS 1/28/01
SB XLVII CHAMPIONS 2/3/13

--& left plenty of room below that. YMMV)

I have a tattoo (a couple). If I were start with a clean slate (no tats) I would probably not get them at all. As you age you change... What I put on my body at the age of 19 or 20 is not what I want there now. And anything relating to sports or a team can have a questionable outcome... based on what a couple posters have mentioned. (Hell, you may have a son who plays for the Steelers or Browns in 20 years...) Haha... I don't know. Then what ya gonna do?

Back in college I saw the school's whole football team go out and get "1994 League Champ" tattoos... only to have the title stripped 3 weeks later because they started an academically ineligible player all season. lol.

**lobachevsky** · 02-18-2013, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by RedSkins Fury

Back in college I saw the schools whole football team go out and get "1994 League Champ" tattoos... only to have the title stripped 3 weeks later because they started an academically ineligible player all season. lol.

Ouch. Literally & figuratively.

**batman55** · 02-18-2013, 06:26 PM

Originally Posted by HoustonRaven

You might want to go back for a touch up once it heals.

Those colors do not look deep enough. Maybe it's the camera, but the purple in particular is splotchy. It should be a deep, even purple.

It was taken with my iPhones Camera with flash literally right after the bandage came off. Colors are already getting better!

**HoustonRaven** · 02-18-2013, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by batman55

It was taken with my iPhones Camera with flash literally right after the bandage came off. Colors are already getting better!

Good!

Having a few myself, I've had to back once or twice when the artist wasn't heavy enough with his pen.

**batman55** · 02-18-2013, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by HoustonRaven

True.

But I am guessing the OP doesn't have the W2 that Jacoby has, thus I am more concerned that the OP gets a proper job than Jacoby getting a horrible one.

And to no disrespect but the artist is a well known artist in my area, I have another 2 from her, and I couldn't be happier with her work on this piece!!!