Tats

Don't get me wrong, I love football. I wish football season lasted all year long. But what is it with all the tattoos the players are wearing. It started several years ago; I think back when Dennis Rodman was making such a fool of himself and started looking like a mutant peacock. Anyway, the pro football players started getting all kinds of tattoos. It started with the barbwire looking tats on their biceps. That graduated to oriental style markings and then almost completely covering their arms.

Then we started seeing tats on college players. Looking to emulate their pro football heroes? Maybe. More than likely thinking their tats will make them look tough and manly to the rest of their team.

Now we're seeing tats on high school players. All I can say is -- Stupid Parents!

Don't any of these HS and college players realize that they all won't make it in the pros? Don't they realize that the tats may keep them from getting a really good job or promotion because their appearance reflects on the image of the company?

And the women. Girls are getting a tattoo in the small of their back. Did you ever wonder why they call that a "Tramp Stamp"?

Living on the coast in a small village that gets most of its income from commercial fishing, I see a lot of older women, retired and such, who have tattoos. Just a few are "Prison Tats", you know, individual letters on the fingers spelling out "Hell" or some other four or five letter word. The rest are tattoos on arms, breasts, necks and legs.

Hello!!! Ever see sagging paint. As these women get older, er... make that OLD!, they sag. Period. When the skin gets loose and sags, any tattoo sags too. Even the 'Picturesque' ones.

I'm beginning to think there should be proficiency testing prior to granting a license to have children. We've got an over abundance of stupid people walking around.