Bettman on ass
Okay, let us not suggest NHL fan Daylen Hopkins is an ass (we withdraw that implication, Daylen). But he is certainly going to be the butt of jokes after having NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s face tattooed right there upon the left cheek of his bum. As you might expect, the incident is a bummer for Hopkins.
Hopkins got the tattoo because in February, on a whim, he tweeted that if both the Chicago Blackhawks and the Los Angeles Kings got eliminated in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, he’d tattoo Bettman’s face on his posterior. It just seemed like a funny thing to say.
Wrong.
This is what Hopkins tweeted back on February 27 (twitter handle @slaylen): I’ll get Gary Bettman’s face tattooed on my ass if Chicago and LA both get bounced in the first round.
Butt of jokes
That is exactly what happened, each of those teams, powerhouses with recent Stanley Cup wins, lost in the first round, Chicago to St. Louis and L.A. to San Jose. Hopkins said he is “a man of my word” so he went through with his promise; that even though it was mostly made to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
So it was done. Is done. Gary Bettman’s face is on the left cheek of his buttocks. What would Bettman think? “I don’t know if he’ll be proud, but I do hope he sees it,” Hopkins told Yahoo. “This tattoo is probably the most people will ever laugh about Gary Bettman in a non ‘I hate Gary Bettman’ way.”
He combined the inking, it’s permanent, with a funding drive for KidsSportsBC, so good came out of it. He did not say how he thought his tattoo will go over in a gym shower or an intimate setting but there is a possibility that, upon viewing it, people might think he’s a bit of an…..
…oh, a ‘you know what.’
