Tattooed fans show loyalty to their teams

The Questionable Tattoo Selections of Long Islanders
Barry Melrose Rocks — Over at Newsday, there's a neat column from Barbara Barker today. While most of us aren't amazed that people do, in fact, get the logos of their favorite sports teams tattooed on their body, I guess the more casual newspaper readers might be. Nonetheless, it's always interesting to see the random crap people put on themselves. ...

Puck Headlines: The dedication, pasty skin of NY hockey tattoos
Puck Daddy — ... to this tremendous article in Newsday about New York sports fans and their body art dedications to the home team. This "Fishsticks the Pooh" tattoo is on the ankle of Alyssa Gluck of Hicksville; Meanwhile, "Laura Potavin, a 27-year-old insurance broker from Massapequa, loves the Islanders so much that she endured the pain to have their logo tattooed on her bikini line." ...

The Ricko Files, Vol. 5
Uni Watch — ... . Further details here (with thanks to Alan Kreit). … Reprinted from yesterday’s comments: The pestilence of those Phiten-branded socks is ...

Real fans!
Redleg Nation — Okay, admit it…how many of you have a Reds tattoo?

To those of you who sport permanent MLB tattoos: Help!
Big League Stew — After reading Newsday's article about tattooed New York sports fans (via Puck Daddy), an idea for a great post was planted in the back of my diamond-dedicated mind. So as I watched this afternoon's slate of games, I finally worked a little bit on my goal: Building a full MLB standings table using only baseball logos tattooed onto super-fanatical (or at least, impulsive) human skin. Unfortunately, all 30 marriages between flesh and ink in celebration of baseball devotion are not available on the Internets. In fact, I found only 15 different teams (which ...