OKLAHOMA CITY -
A metro tattoo
artist is putting Thunder fans to the test Friday, offering Oklahoma City
Thunder logo tattoos to fans who want to prove their love for the team is more
than just "skin deep".
Tornado Tattoo
located at 2206 N. MacArthur Blvd., wanted to see if anyone was tough enough to
Thunder Up with ink. And after about thirty minutes of opening their doors,
they were all booked up.
Thunder fans
signed up, inked up and showed how tough they were for their team and News 9's
cameras.
"They're not
for everyone," Tornado Tattoo owner, Josh Poindexter said. "There's plenty of
skin to go around."
Poindexter wanted
to know if he could find some Thunder fans that were tough enough to Thunder Up
on a whole new level.
"[I wanted
to] see who the diehard fans are," he said with a smile.
"You couldn't get
me here fast enough," first fan in the chair, Brian Fuller said.
And fans had to be
fast, the appointments for free tattoos, filled up fast.
"You know how
crazy OU and OSU fans are. This is both of them combined, so it's going to be a
rough crowd," said Poindexter.
Fuller was ready
at noon when the free-tattoo promotion started, but his wasn't his first rodeo
in the tattoo parlor.
"I don't have
any regrets on any of them well, maybe one, we won't go there," Fuller said. "[I
was] born and bred [in Oklahoma], so might as well, get something I'm going to
die with."
Some fans may say they
live and die for their Thunder team. Fuller says the Thunder coming to OKC and
turning up the excitement is what really got him into basketball in the first
place.
"Just excited
to see how it turns out," Fuller said.
As NBA fans and
Thunder Nation watch and see what happens, No matter what, some brave OKC
faithful have Thundered Up forever.
"Now's when
the fun begins," Fuller said, in anticipation for next week's hardwood hoedowns,
"what better way than to get a permanent fixture?"
The tattoos take
about an hour each to create. Six or seven fans got the tattoos for free
Friday. Normally the tats they got are around $100. And fans can still book
future appointments and support a local business.
