Gumps Don't Own Bad Tattoo Market: Giant Toomer’s Oaks Tattoo

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LostLettermen.com ?@LostLettermenPHOTO: One Auburn grad will remember the Toomer's Corner oaks forever with this massive back tat: LINK / …

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A 2002 graduate of the university named Giancarlo Guida made sure of that with his epic new back tattoo.

In a inking that took more than 12 hours over two sessions to complete, Guida’s back now displays one of the oaks in its final bloom, draped in toilet paper. (It’s a very cool effect courtesy of Matt Strauser of Atlanta’s Rubicon Tattoo.) At the base of the oak tree is a rugby ball, symbolizing the four years that Guida spent on AU’s rugby team.

In addition, the tattoo also features a rendering of Samford Hall and the statue of an eagle that once stood outside of Auburn’s old basketball arena, Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum.

“I thought that was a great way to capture the trees after that a**hole killed them,” Guida told The War Eagle Reader in reference to Harvey Updyke, who recently plead guilty to the trees’ poisoning.

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