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Although the NFL regular season is still more than four months away, teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are back in the building for OTAs and some of their players are sporting new tattoos! They revealed their new ink upon arrival to the facility earlier this week.
One particular design will make you feel very old if you were born in or before the early 1990s.
With the Super Bowl now three months in the past and the NFL Draft behind us, preparation is officially underway for the 2025-26 NFL season. The Buccaneers invited their players back to Tampa Bay for Organized Team Activities on April 15. They scheduled nine OTAs to be held between May 21 and June 6, with three a week for three consecutive weeks. Mandatory minicamp gets underway on June 11.
Players are back in the facility and that is a sight for sore eyes! Football is coming.
Not only do OTAs give the players an opportunity to get back in shape after the offseason, it allows them to debut their new tattoos. Vita Vea, Elijah Klein, Devin Culp, Christian Izien and Ryan Miller are the five Tampa Bay Buccaneers players who were most excited to show off what they got done over the last few months.
Vea, one of the greatest defensive tackles of all-time, worked closely with Fred Frost in Salt Lake City to design a full sleeve for his left arm.
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Klein, a second-year offensive guard, added a new fish (to represent The Bay).
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He also added a scorpion on the same arm.
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Culp, a second-year tight end, worked on his neck, his hands and his legs.
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Izien, a third-year safety, featured a new vulture bird on his calf.
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Miller, a second-year wide receiver, added a bull and a four-leak clover to his right forearm, and the year of his birth on his right shoulder. He was born in 2000.
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Here is a better look at all of the new tattoos and an understanding of their meaning:
I love this series from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I wish more NFL teams would post a similar video.
The players spent a lot of money and time under the gun for these new tattoos. Let them show off! You could see that they were all excited to do so. Other teams should follow suit.