Golden Knights fans lining up for free tattoos ahead of playoffs is peak Vegas

The Vegas Golden Knights are dropkicking hockey into the new millennium, energizing their fan base with quirky promotions and activities. Ahead of the Golden Knights’ first-round matchup against the Los Angeles Kings, the team gave out free tattoos.

The Vegas Golden Knights aren’t a regular hockey team. They’re a cool hockey team.

To wit, ahead of their first-round (and first-ever) playoff matchup tonight against the Los Angeles Kings, which they got to host because, oh yeah, they had 109 POINTS this season, the Golden Knights held a fair of sorts.

Right there in Toshiba Plaza, Vegas offered its new and enthusiastic fan base a barber to shave VGK logos into their hair, face and hair painters and a tattoo artist inking free VGK logo tattoos.

Wait, what?

That’s right:

Ill-advised tattoos and sports fandoms go together like peanut butter and fluff, but surely there wouldn’t be that many people who felt rabidly enough about this team to ink its logo onto their bodies for all eternity, right?

Wrong.

In fact, there was a line. A long line:

Vegas is the Wild Wild West, literally, but also of hockey.

From their irreverent Twitter account to their rabid fans, the Golden Knights are bucking the hockey old guard and doing things their way. Some have criticized them for it, but clearly the people who really matter — the fans — are more than here for it. In fact, this moment just catapulted the Vegas fans up the standings for our annual Fandom 250 ranking of the best fandoms in sports and pop culture.

After all, these fans have been waiting for a professional hockey team to grace their fair town for decades. If we didn’t expect them to embrace it to the point of inking VGK logos onto their bodies, that’s on us.

As a (not at all) wise man once said (inked onto his body), “No Ragrets.”

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