The 25 best, worst and most regrettable sports tattoos
Brian Urlacher
There aren’t many negative things you can say about Chicago Bears Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, but the fact that he spent his entire career rocking the male equivalent of a butterfly tramp-stamp is some kind of miracle.
Urlacher’s right arm is adorned with the infamous barbed wire tattoo, which might have been cool for all of 10 seconds in the early 90’s, but very quickly became something you’d only see on insecure meatheads flexing in the mirror at the gym.
Brian, what were you thinking? This is almost as bad as having a sun tattoo around your belly button. These are tattoos that people like Brian wish they had thought through for ten more seconds before going through with them.
Obviously there is no shortage of Twitter commentary on this one:
Brian Urlacher got the most hoe-est tattoo in the NFL.
— Iced Americano Supremacist (@DAVID_LEE_RGV) October 2, 2012
What might be worse than having the tattoo itself is the fact that Urlacher wasn’t even tough enough to sit through the entirety of it. The tattoo doesn’t even make it’s way around his arm. (Granted, it is a bigger arm than most.)
“It hurt like hell, man.” Urlacher eventually told the tattoo artist to stop. “I was only 18. I wasn’t very tough back then. So I didn’t get it finished.”
Sorry Brian, despite a Hall of Fame football career and being known as one of the toughest players in NFL history, you get dumped into the “shameful” category for this one.