Tattoos

[Mark Padgett]

As an official, you have every right to require a player to cover a tattoo if it is offensive. You must consider it the same as if the player was saying those words out loud. If you would T a player for those words, then the tattoo is offensive. There is no difference between verbal and written communication. Look at it this way, what would you do if a player took a pencil and paper, wrote something offensive on it and showed it to you. A tattoo is the same thing.

We have covered this extensively in my association and there was no disagreement on this issue.