Darnell Dockett of the Arizona Cardinals will play defensive tackle against the Pittsburgh Steelers for three or four hours Sunday, but he has something scheduled for Tuesday that could take more than twice the time.
“He came by and basically set up a 10-hour appointment,” Sage O’Connell, a tattoo artist in Mesa, Ariz., said in a telephone interview. “Darnell knows what he wants, and he’s easy to work with.”
What Dockett craves is a new tattoo to commemorate a victory in Super Bowl XLIII at Raymond James Stadium. O’Connell has drawn murals on Dockett’s back, legs, neck, chest and arms, but there is still some empty space.
“Put it on the bottom of my feet,” Dockett said. “I’m going to find a spot even if I’ve got to get it on my forehead. If I win the Super Bowl, I will get that tattoo. That’s something to definitely put on your body.”
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“I’m fascinated with skulls,” he said, pointing to tattoos. “I’ve got one, two, three, four, five. I’ve got two demons on my chest, both of them coming from flames.”
Dockett and O’Connell say they are most proud of Dockett’s back. It includes a portrait of his mother, murdered by a gunshot to the head. She sold drugs to support three children by three absentee fathers, Dockett said. He discovered her body when he was 13.
The hottest fire produces the hardest nail.
Playing Tackle is more painful. Getting a tattoo is just a dull pain. Plus when your getting a tattoo you take breaks every hour or so and the pain that was there dissapears the moment the needle is taken away. The pain of physical stress due to slaming into a three hundred pound foot ball player lasts.
Obviously though Darnell is used to both of the pains in question here. And he’s not getting the tattoo. GO STEELERS!!!
The whole idea of tattoos is stupid. If God wanted us to draw on our skin, he would have given everyone their own Sharpie.
Ah yes. Primitive tribal behavior lives on in some, even today.
Whats more painful? Playing football without a helmet, getting a tattoo on your liver, or having to wade thru Paddy-O-Zero’s posts?
So is Paddy O’Zero an Irish name?
Just wondering because St. Pat’s day is comming up in just over a month and it would be good to know…;P
CZen–we don’t know for sure, but if it is Irish the “O” addition traditionally was added to the illegitimate line of landed gentry who followed those sorts of issues.
Why are the illegitimate so often retarded as well is the live issue.
They say that tattoo’s are addictive. The dull pain feels good after a while and after getting one you start crave another.
My last tattoo took about 5 1/2 hours. 2 1/2 hours for black outlines. 3 hours for coloring about a month later. Now I just need enough money for my next tattoo. They’re just too damn expensive.
Lemme get this straight…. He has a tattoo on his back of his mother getting shot in the head. Nice. The mother with three absentee sperm donors. The drug dealer. Wow. That is nastier than a bunch of demented nightmarish skulls leering out from his epidermis. If you really want to see the worst tattoos in the world, try San Jose on Cinco de Mayo, when a bunch of folks are walking around with no shirts..You know the ones. The ones who can’t remember their name and need it tattooed on their neck, just above the collar line, so they can never get a decent job. “I want a nice tattoo..What can you do for me?”… “How about a lovely rotting corpse with body organs falling out and flies buzzing about covering your big fat belly?”
#5, Bobbo,
OK, I give, which is second, the liver tattoo or football without a helmet?
Tattoos aren’t anywhere near as painful as people who haven’t ha done think. Of course the location makes a difference (not sure I’d want one on my knuckles) but its also quite unlikely you’d come away from a tattoo artist with blunt trauma brain damage as caused by playing gruntish sports like football or scrabble.
Your crappy tramp stamps makes my pizza cost more.
Hey – I have a question:
Who’s more stupid?
1) Football Players?
2) People that believe an organization made up of greedy team owners extorting tax money from cities and states is “their” team?
Question:
Who’s more stupid?
1) Football Players?
2) People that believe an organization made up of greedy team owners extorting tax money from cities and states is “their” team?
10 hours of tattooing, as others have said, really isn’t that painful ….
… but once it starts to scab up and itching like mad for the next week and you can’t touch it and can’t bath without wrecking 10 hours work ….
Once it scabs you’re golden. Taking a shower or bath is not a problem. I love all these people spouting off about things they’ve never experienced.
Steelers win!!!
Wonder if he’s going to commemorate this…;P
I hate chicks with those ass antler tattoos.
#18, Ed,
I hate chicks with ass antlers.