Posted on 11/30/2012 3:45:05 PM PST by GSWarrior
Before we get into this, we'd like to apologize in advance, because we're about to give you a link to perhaps the worst article in the history of sports.
...and Whitley's article, which went up on Thursday, is as asbestos-y as anything you'll ever read. A brief example:
"San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick is going to be a big-time NFL quarterback. That must make the guys in San Quentin happy.
"Approximately 98.7 percent of the inmates at California's state prison have tattoos. I don't know that as fact, but I've watched enough "Lockup" to know it's close to accurate.
"I'm also pretty sure less than 1.3 percent of NFL quarterbacks have tattoos. There's a reason for that.
"NFL quarterback is the ultimate position of influence and responsibility. He is the CEO of a high-profile organization, and you don't want your CEO to look like he just got paroled.
I'm not sure what Kaepernick's tattoos have to do with his present or future as a starting NFL quarterback, though everybody knows that Kaepernick has been very successful with a small sample size of two NFL starts with the San Francisco 49ers. So, perhaps Whitley was looking for a different angle, and he didn't have time for stuff like interviewing, homework, or film study.
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“You know what I always think when I see people with a lot of visible tattoos? That they’re quite dumb and I don’t want to know them.”
Why would you make such a judgement without getting to know them? I work with a bunch of guys who have a lot of ink. They are some of the smartest people I have ever known. I have 4 tattoos, and I’m far from dumb. I’m thinking of getting a few more.
What a coincidence! I have the very same thoughts about people making statements like yours.
Hey, if you want to look like you just stuck a shiv into your cellmate or that you’ll be driving the car in the next L.A. drive-by gang-bang, who cares. Sure he could have used the space to rent out ads. The real question is what will be the LAST sq. inch of un-inked skin on his body??????????? I think I know.
Oh I agree. Every time I see black football players with barely discernible tattoos on their dark skin I always think, “Now there goes a really smart guy!” Now if you could change the designs each week or have them light up like neon signs it might be more fun. But you’re right! These guys are geniuses!!!
Its reported that he says, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do...” every time he’s tackled.
and this is the second worse article ever written...
It’s a hit piece written by Alex Smith’s chauffeur. /s
Now now Michael, your dearly beloved President Baracka Claus, has a heart-shaped tattoo on his penis with the word ‘Reggie’ on it! Now you wouldn’t accuse Georgi Stephanopulos of being an idiot if he wrote a disparaging column, would you??????????? Oh, you would......Sorry!
Will his tats make a nice lampshade?
(Remembering the stories my dad told of WWII POWs being skinned for their tats.)
I somehow doubt the following verse is amongst them:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
OOPS!
Tats are just nasty.
females should never get a tattoo of a hummingbird on their boobs cause is will be a vulture on their belly when they get old...
You just made me spew 7up everywhere. Thanks lol.
I’m 70 years old now and my biceps are getting kind of flabby. I wish I’d got one 50 years ago of my squadron’s logo, but I don’t think it’d look to cool right now.
In the continuing “sissification” of NFL football with all its rule changes, we certainly can’t have someone looking like a mean and vicious ex-con. That would ruin the pretty boy image of quarterbacks that are not to be touched. /s
I am sure you know that from personal experience.
I half expect Margaret Mead to show up from the past to do a perverse modern cultural study on the retrogressive collapse of Western Civilization.
No mon, ya got it all wrong. It doesn’t say “Wendy”, it says, “Welcome to Jamaica, and have a nice day.”
“Oh, and many of his tattoos are Bible verses.
I somehow doubt the following verse is amongst them:
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:28
OOPS!
Tats are just nasty......”
.......facts are stubborn things
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