Let’s Talk About that Mark Messier 9/11 Back Tattoo …

Jim Adair | February 4, 2016

This picture is floating around all over the place, and it might be one of the most amazing and confusing things I’ve ever seen. Let me present this as a series of questions I have:

  • Which tattoo came first, the Messier tribute or the 9/11 Memorial?
  • Is that mushroom cloud at the bottom actually a third tattoo, or does this guy not understand what happened?
  • Messier had to come after, right? And why does his name cast a very weird, very dark shadow in the smoke?
  • Holy shit that shadow says “Messiah” doesn’t it? IT DOES OH MY GOD!
  • Okay, that changes things. Does this guy realize he’s kinda implying Mark Messier saved people in 9/11?
  • And with the “Messiah” part being so obscured, does he realize that on first glance his tattoo looks like he’s saying Mark Messier used a nuke to bring down the towers on 9/11 and it was awesome?
  • Just how far down below the beltline does that tattoo go?

That last question is the only one I don’t want the answer to.