Colin Kaepernick's Tattoo Artist, Nes Andrion, Explains Star Quarterback Client's Ink

Colin Kaepernick's Tattoo Artist, Nes Andrion, Explains Star Quarterback Client's Ink
Article by: SlingerVille Staff
December 03, 2012

The San Francisco 49ers’ star, Colin Kaepernick, is no stranger to tattoos. His arms and back are covered in ink.

The QB's tattoo artist, Nes Andrion of Reno, Nev., told The Huffington Post that the inside of one of Kaepernick's biceps reads, "My Gift," and the inside of the other reads, "Is My Curse." The top of his right bicep features the word "FAITH."

Andrion, the owner of tattoo shop Endless Ink in Reno, projected that he has tattooed about "93 percent" of the football players tattoos, over nine sessions in Reno and Las Vegas while Kaepernick was playing for the University of Nevada. He reported that Kaepernick favors the illustration of opposing forces, such as good and bad and Heaven and Hell. Thus, the artwork on Kaepernick's back, have an angels and demons motif, according to the artist.

"When I put my touch to that tattoo, it's not just a tattoo cause I'm getting paid for it," Andrion said. "It's got meaning."

The psalms tattooed on Kaepernick's arms address his competitive instinct, according to Sports Illustrated. Psalm 27:3, on one arm, reads: "Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear though war break out against me, even then I will be confident."

Psalm 18:39, on the other arm, says: "You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me."

According to the Nevada Sagebrush, Kaepernick asked his parents for help picking the passages to mark on his arms. “They are about asking God to help kick somebody’s butt,” his mother, Teresa Kaepernick, told the student-run university outlet. “When you look at them, it’s not surprising to see that an athlete chose those two verses.”

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/colin-kaepernick-tattoo_n_2193761.html

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