“If we can pull off a win against the Elephants I will get a Josh Heupel tattoo,” Luke Jackson wrote six days before Tennessee played Alabama. His Vols won. He kept his word. And last Friday, he met Heupel in person, writes davidubben.
’s 40-yard kick fluttered over the crossbar, snapping Tennessee’s 15-game losing streak to its rival with a 52-49 victory that served as one of the 2022 season’s best games.“My phone was exploding with texts, calls, every social media I have people were screenshotting my post and sending it to me,” Jackson said. “So I was like, ‘I really gotta do this then.'”
Jackson already has Tennessee-themed collages on his arms featuring a cartoon Smokey, an outline of the state filled by the Vols’ iconic orange and white checkerboard pattern, the state’s tri-star emblem and Tennessee’s old rifleman logo. He was never going to bail on his promise, and he certainly wasn’t going to embrace subtlety with his selection, either. He sought inspiration in the weeks that followed and found it in a photo of Heupel with a smile on his face and a cigar in his mouth, bedlam erupting around him.
“I looked at a few different shots with him with cigars, but that happy smile and with him smoking it? That was the one,” Jackson said.In late November, Jackson made the 20-minute drive down Highway 27 from his home in Coalfield, Tenn., to Oxblood Tattoo in Harriman, Tenn., where his favorite artist, Sam Jarvis, would duplicate the photo with ink on Jackson’s left thigh over a few hours in his shop.
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