Schnauzer's Tattoo
By Wes "Brigham" Clark
Meet Scott "Schnauzer" Delaney. (He's the one on the left.)
At first I thought Coach Rover gave him that nickname for an ability to sniff out and ferret away the rugby ball during games. You know, like a terrier's fighting spirit, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog"-kind of thing. But, no. You can see Rover had a different allusion in mind.
In addition to his playing abilities, Schnauzer is also the
Uber Touch Judge.This is the tattoo on Schnauzer's right forearm.
Where did he get the design? From a series of joke slides I did for the 2/3/01 WSRFC banquet - "the WSRFC All-Blacks Win the Rugby Sevens World Cup." You can click
here to read the article, which I derived from the slides.Now, this design only took me about five minutes to create. I grabbed the logo from the New Zealand Haka - a team that plays U.S.-style gridiron football - made a mirror image and stuck the club logo in the middle and voila! Schnauzer tells me that it was a big hit with the tattoo artist.
I am honored - and a bit weirded-out. Henceforth I shall take my slide shows much more seriously, seeing as how designs from them might be inscribed onto a man's body for the remaining decades of his life.
This isn't the only Western Suburbs-related tattoo, by the way. Big Head Todd has one, too.
One last tattoo story, from a former member of Western Suburbs, who now props for PAC: John "Montana" Thomas. Somewhat drunk, he went to a tattoo parlor to get a design he came up etched onto himself - a Welsh flag and an Irish flag, with a rugby ball in the middle. Only he misdirected the tattoo artist about the colors on the Irish flag and got them backwards, forming the flag of that great rugby nation The Ivory Coast. (This was later pointed out to him by an Irish hooker.)