I don't blame him
I don't blame him
They look mostly like black tattoos too.
They don’t have any colors in them, which is typical of tattoos on black people, except for the tattoo on his face, which is typical of gangsters.
Larry Bird’s tattoos were near the last thing on my mind this morning. Was the article saying that in reality, Larry does not have tattoos, but the artist decided to put them on his mural image. Larry has since then arranged that these scribblings be removed by the painter.
Is that what happened?
The Muralist is a good painter. One would think with skill like that, he would have cleared ‘tattoo’ decorations with Larry first.
Larry Bird no where that I can find said the artist’s painting was making him look like a thug. The artist was violating copyrights by doing the painting without Bird’s approval, and without Indiana’s either.
Bird’s team sent an email to Muck asking her to take the artwork down and citing “unauthorized promotional value to her brand” and six trademarks owned by Bird, according to CNN affiliate WISH.
“Larry’s position is he has elevated himself from where he began to where he is now through a lot of hard work. He has developed a brand that is marketable and he needs to protect that brand,” Sallee told IndyStar. “The mural, as originally painted, was a departure from that brand.”
And the artist admitted trying for humor when she said, “She intended the piece to be lighthearted and fun. “It’s nothing personal against Larry,” Muck said. “I actually think it’s funnier to put tattoos on people who don’t have them.” It might be if the body she put them on approved of them.
Bird is still active in the business world and has an image he built and wishes to keep. He owns two businesses, a hotel and restaurant in Terre Haute and a car dealership in Martinsville, Indiana. Bird also retained an endorsement deal with the Heinz Corporation to advertise its Boston Market restaurant chain and line of frozen pot pies. He, with good reason, is protective of his image. He is not a member of today’s much more violent NBA and built his image on a more talented game rather than a physical one. That’s his image.
rwood
