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http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/8187914/In-NBA-playoffs,-less-ink-means-more-viewers
My brain isn't big enough to embed an article but the link is provided. The parts that really stood out to me are:
"No one wants to watch Delonte West or Larry Hughes play basketball. It's uncomfortable and disconcerting. Youdon't want your kids to see it. You don't want your kids to think they should decorate their neck, arms, hands, chest and legs in paint. You don'twant to waste time explaining to your kids that some millionaire athletes have so little genuine self-confidence that they find it necessary to coverthemselves in tattoos as a way to mask their insecurities."
"It's a television show. Pleasant smiles, non-threatening people sell products better than menacing, tattooed brutes."
"Part of the reason more people are watching these playoffs is because the average fan isn't constantly repulsed by the appearance of most of theplayers on the court. Most of the key players left in the playoffs don't look like recent prison parolees."
I'm at work so I can't even go off on the rant I want to, but damn. This article really made me mad. Not only because I have tattoo's myself butbecause he just comes across as so ignorant and arrogant. I've read some of his other stuff and it seemed "out-there", like he was just reachingto get readers but this takes the cake for me. Thoughts?
My brain isn't big enough to embed an article but the link is provided. The parts that really stood out to me are:
"No one wants to watch Delonte West or Larry Hughes play basketball. It's uncomfortable and disconcerting. Youdon't want your kids to see it. You don't want your kids to think they should decorate their neck, arms, hands, chest and legs in paint. You don'twant to waste time explaining to your kids that some millionaire athletes have so little genuine self-confidence that they find it necessary to coverthemselves in tattoos as a way to mask their insecurities."
"It's a television show. Pleasant smiles, non-threatening people sell products better than menacing, tattooed brutes."
"Part of the reason more people are watching these playoffs is because the average fan isn't constantly repulsed by the appearance of most of theplayers on the court. Most of the key players left in the playoffs don't look like recent prison parolees."
I'm at work so I can't even go off on the rant I want to, but damn. This article really made me mad. Not only because I have tattoo's myself butbecause he just comes across as so ignorant and arrogant. I've read some of his other stuff and it seemed "out-there", like he was just reachingto get readers but this takes the cake for me. Thoughts?